Blog Category: Financial Terms

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What is Corporate Culture?

Corporate culture results from common values, fundamental assumptions, beliefs, behaviours, and past business decisions

Owais Siddiqui
13 Oct 2022
4 min read

Cumulative Density Function

The CDF of a variable X, also known as the X distribution function, represents likelihood that X will have a value le...

Owais Siddiqui
13 Oct 2022
1 min read

Economic Risk: A 7 Step Guide to Understanding

Economic risk usually occurs when currency volatility affects the firm’s cash flows or its competitive standing wit...

Owais Siddiqui
13 Oct 2022
8 min read

Liquidity Coverage Ratio

The LCR focuses on the bank’s ability to weather a 30-day period of reduced/disrupted liquidity

Owais Siddiqui
12 Oct 2022
1 min read

Economic Structure

Economic Structure refers to the shifting balance of output, trade, earnings and employment across several economic s...

Owais Siddiqui
12 Oct 2022
2 min read

Fat Tail

A fat tail is a probability distribution that more commonly forecasts movements of 3 or more standard deviations than...

Owais Siddiqui
12 Oct 2022
4 min read

What is Expected Shortfall?

Expected shortfall is a risk metric that includes expected losses above and beyond the VaR level.

Owais Siddiqui
12 Oct 2022
2 min read

Loss Ratio & Its Importance

A loss ratio is defined as the percentage of payouts or claims against the premium generated during the period.

Owais Siddiqui
12 Oct 2022
2 min read

What is Risk Data Aggregation?

Risk Data Aggregation is defining, collecting & processing risk data in accordance with the bank's risk reporting req...

Owais Siddiqui
11 Oct 2022
2 min read

Swap In Finance

A swap is a financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange payments based on the movement of an underlyi...

Owais Siddiqui
11 Oct 2022
2 min read

Skewness: Deciphering the Symmetry of Distributions

Skewness, a measure of a distribution's symmetry, is the standardised third moment by dividing it by the standard dev...

Learnsignal
11 Oct 2022
2 min read

Reputation Risk with Examples

Reputation risk is the danger that a firm will suffer a loss in public perception due to some factors which is well e...

Owais Siddiqui
11 Oct 2022
1 min read