Financial Risk Management Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Financial Risk Management

A

  • Adjoint algorithmic differentiation (AAD) in Financial Risk Management
  • Advanced internal ratings-based approach (A-IRB) in Financial Risk Management
  • Algorithmic hedging in Financial Risk Management
  • Algorithmic pricing in Financial Risk Management
  • Alpha in Financial Risk Management
  • Alternative data in Financial Risk Management
  • American-style option in Financial Risk Management
  • Arbitrage in Financial Risk Management
  • Arbitrage-free model in Financial Risk Management
  • Asset in Financial Risk Management
  • Asset Liability Management (ALM) in Financial Risk Management
  • Autocallable in Financial Risk Management

B

  • Backtesting in Financial Risk Management
  • Bail-in in Financial Risk Management
  • Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) in Financial Risk Management
  • Banking book in Financial Risk Management
  • Basel Accords in Financial Risk Management
  • BASEL I, II, III in Financial Risk Management
  • Basel III in Financial Risk Management
  • BASEL in Financial Risk Management
  • Basis risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Bayesian statistics in Financial Risk Management
  • BCBS 239 in Financial Risk Management
  • Bermudan option in Financial Risk Management
  • Bitcoin in Financial Risk Management
  • Black-Scholes Model in Financial Risk Management
  • Bull and Bear Spreads in Financial Risk Management
  • Business Risk in Financial Risk Management

C

  • Calibration in Financial Risk Management
  • Call option in Financial Risk Management
  • Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Capital floor in Financial Risk Management
  • Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) in Financial Risk Management
  • Capital valuation adjustment (KVA) in Financial Risk Management
  • CCP basis in Financial Risk Management
  • Central limit order book (Clob) in Financial Risk Management
  • Clearing member in Financial Risk Management
  • Close-out netting in Financial Risk Management
  • Collateral in Financial Risk Management
  • Commodity trading adviser (CTA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Counterparty Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Credit Counterparty Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Credit Derivatives in Financial Risk Management
  • Credit Ratings in Financial Risk Management
  • Credit Risk in Financial Risk Management

D

  • Debit valuation adjustment (DVA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Default Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Delta in Financial Risk Management
  • Delta Neutral Strategies in Financial Risk Management
  • Derivative in Financial Risk Management
  • Distributed ledger technology (DLT) in Financial Risk Management
  • Dividend in Financial Risk Management
  • Dodd-Frank Act in Financial Risk Management

E

  • Earnings Per Share (EPS) in Financial Risk Management
  • Economic Capital in Financial Risk Management
  • Elicitability in Financial Risk Management
  • Endogenous risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Eonia in Financial Risk Management
  • Equity derivatives in Financial Risk Management
  • Equity option in Financial Risk Management
  • EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Euribor in Financial Risk Management
  • European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) in Financial Risk Management
  • European-style option in Financial Risk Management
  • Exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Financial Risk Management
  • Exogenous Event in Financial Risk Management
  • Expected Loss in Financial Risk Management

F

  • Factor investing in Financial Risk Management
  • Fat tails in Financial Risk Management
  • Financial Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Fixed Income in Financial Risk Management
  • Flylets in Financial Risk Management
  • Forward Rate Agreement in Financial Risk Management
  • Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) in Financial Risk Management
  • Funding valuation adjustment (FVA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Futures commission merchant (FCM) in Financial Risk Management

G

  • Gamma in Financial Risk Management
  • Gap Analysis in Financial Risk Management
  • GARCH Model in Financial Risk Management
  • Global systemically important bank (G-Sib) in Financial Risk Management
  • Greeks in Financial Risk Management
  • Growth Investing in Financial Risk Management

H

  • Haircut in Financial Risk Management
  • Heavy tails in Financial Risk Management
  • Hedge accounting in Financial Risk Management
  • Hedging in Financial Risk Management
  • High Water Mark in Financial Risk Management
  • High-Frequency Trading in Financial Risk Management
  • Historical simulation in Financial Risk Management

I

  • IFRS 9 in Financial Risk Management
  • Implied volatility in Financial Risk Management
  • Indifference pricing in Financial Risk Management
  • Inflation Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Inflation swap in Financial Risk Management
  • Initial margin (IM) in Financial Risk Management
  • Insurance in Financial Risk Management
  • Interest rate option in Financial Risk Management
  • Interest Rate Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) in Financial Risk Management
  • Interest rate swap in Financial Risk Management
  • Internal Controls in Financial Risk Management
  • Internal models approach (IMA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Internal ratings-based (IRB) approach in Financial Risk Management

J

  • Joint Probability in Financial Risk Management
  • Jump Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Junk Bond in Financial Risk Management

K

  • Kelly Criterion in Financial Risk Management
  • Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) in Financial Risk Management
  • Kickback in Financial Risk Management

L

  • Legal and regulatory compliance risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Legal risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Leverage in Financial Risk Management
  • Leverage ratio in Financial Risk Management
  • Libor in Financial Risk Management
  • Libor-OIS spread in Financial Risk Management
  • Liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Liquidity Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Local correlation in Financial Risk Management
  • Local volatility in Financial Risk Management
  • London interbank offered rate (Libor) in Financial Risk Management
  • Long-Term Debt in Financial Risk Management

M

  • Machine learning in Financial Risk Management
  • Margin Call in Financial Risk Management
  • Margin valuation adjustment (MVA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Market Discipline in Financial Risk Management
  • Market impact in Financial Risk Management
  • Market Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Market risk modelling in Financial Risk Management
  • Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) in Financial Risk Management
  • Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (Mifir) in Financial Risk Management
  • Matching adjustment in Financial Risk Management
  • Mifid II in Financial Risk Management
  • Mifid in Financial Risk Management
  • Minimum Capital Requirements in Financial Risk Management
  • Monte Carlo Simulation in Financial Risk Management

N

  • Natural hedge in Financial Risk Management
  • Net stable funding ratio (NSFR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Netting in Financial Risk Management
  • Network theory in Financial Risk Management
  • No definitions in Financial Risk Management
  • No-arbitrage pricing in Financial Risk Management
  • Non-deliverable forward (NDF) in Financial Risk Management
  • Non-modellable risk factors (NMRFs) in Financial Risk Management
  • Non-Performing Loan in Financial Risk Management
  • Normal Distribution in Financial Risk Management

O

  • OIS discounting in Financial Risk Management
  • Omega ratio in Financial Risk Management
  • Operational Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Operational risk modelling in Financial Risk Management
  • Option in Financial Risk Management
  • Options Trading in Financial Risk Management
  • Organised trading facility (OTF) in Financial Risk Management
  • Overnight index swap (OIS) in Financial Risk Management

P

  • P-measure in Financial Risk Management
  • P&L attribution test in Financial Risk Management
  • Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (Priips) regulation in Financial Risk Management
  • Partial differential equation (PDE) in Financial Risk Management
  • Portfolio compression in Financial Risk Management
  • Portfolio Management in Financial Risk Management
  • Position limits in Financial Risk Management
  • Post-trade settlement in Financial Risk Management
  • Post-trade transparency in Financial Risk Management
  • Pre-trade transparency in Financial Risk Management
  • Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) in Financial Risk Management
  • Probability in Financial Risk Management
  • Put option in Financial Risk Management

Q

  • Q-measure in Financial Risk Management
  • Quality Control in Financial Risk Management
  • Quality factor in Financial Risk Management
  • Quantitative Analysis in Financial Risk Management
  • Quantitative investing in Financial Risk Management
  • Quantization in Financial Risk Management
  • Quick Ratio in Financial Risk Management

R

  • Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) in Financial Risk Management
  • Recovery and resolution in Financial Risk Management
  • Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (Remit) in Financial Risk Management
  • Regulatory Capital in Financial Risk Management
  • Remit in Financial Risk Management
  • Repurchase agreement (repo) in Financial Risk Management
  • Return on Investment (ROI) in Financial Risk Management
  • Rho in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Appetite in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Basics in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Classification in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk data aggregation in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk factors in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Management in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk margin in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Measurement in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk parity in Financial Risk Management
  • Risk Policy in Financial Risk Management

S

  • Secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Securities lending in Financial Risk Management
  • Sensitivities-based approach (SBA) in Financial Risk Management
  • Settlement in Financial Risk Management
  • Settlement risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Sharpe Ratio in Financial Risk Management
  • Single point of entry resolution (SPE) in Financial Risk Management
  • Size factor in Financial Risk Management
  • Smart beta in Financial Risk Management
  • Solvency in Financial Risk Management
  • Stress Testing in Financial Risk Management
  • Supervisory Review Process in Financial Risk Management

T

  • T+1 settlement in Financial Risk Management
  • T+2 settlement in Financial Risk Management
  • Tail Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Target redemption forward (Tarf) in Financial Risk Management
  • The Internal Ratings Based (IRB) Approach in Financial Risk Management
  • Theta in Financial Risk Management
  • Three lines of defence (3LOD) in Financial Risk Management
  • Total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) in Financial Risk Management
  • Total Return in Financial Risk Management
  • Total return swap (TRS) in Financial Risk Management
  • Tracking Error in Financial Risk Management
  • Trade reporting in Financial Risk Management
  • Trade repository (under Emir) in Financial Risk Management
  • Trade repository in Financial Risk Management

U

  • Underwriting in Financial Risk Management
  • Unsystematic Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Upside/downside risk in Financial Risk Management

V

  • Valuation adjustments (XVAs) in Financial Risk Management
  • Value at Risk (VaR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Value factor in Financial Risk Management
  • Value Investing in Financial Risk Management
  • Value-at-risk (VAR) in Financial Risk Management
  • Vanilla option in Financial Risk Management
  • VaR (Value at Risk) in Financial Risk Management
  • VAR in Financial Risk Management
  • Variance swap in Financial Risk Management
  • Variation margin (VM) in Financial Risk Management
  • Vega in Financial Risk Management
  • Volatility in Financial Risk Management
  • Volatility skew in Financial Risk Management
  • Volatility smile in Financial Risk Management

W

  • Wealth Management in Financial Risk Management
  • Working Capital in Financial Risk Management
  • Worst-case scenario in Financial Risk Management
  • Wrong-way risk (WWR) in Financial Risk Management

X

  • Xenocurrency in Financial Risk Management
  • Xenocurrency Trading in Financial Risk Management

Y

  • Yield Curve in Financial Risk Management
  • Yield Curve Risk in Financial Risk Management
  • Yield in Financial Risk Management

Z

  • Z-Score in Financial Risk Management
  • Zero-Coupon Bond in Financial Risk Management
  • Zero-Sum Game in Financial Risk Management
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