Risk categories
Banks face various kinds of risks, for example, client default, changes in the market environment, troubles in refinancing, and fraud. These risks are categorized into credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.
Market risk
Losses realized from the movements of the market prices are covered by the market risk. It may include the losses on the trading book positions of a bank or financial institution, but the losses realized on interest rate or currency that may be in connection with the core business of a bank also belong to market risk. Market risk can include several subcategories such as equity risk, interest rate risk, currency risk, and commodity risk. Liquidity risk is also covered in this topic. Based on the advanced approach ...
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