scholarly journals Determinants of enhanced risk disclosure of JSE Top 40 Companies: the board risk committee composition, frequency of meetings and the chief risk officer

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Viljoen ◽  
B W Bruwer ◽  
Z Enslin

Risk disclosure practices have received increasing attention in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. This study investigated possible determinants relating to the composition of the board committee responsible for risk management, the frequency of board risk committee meetings and whether the company employs a chief risk officer, which could manifest in an enhanced level of risk-related disclosure. Based on the possible determinants identified in the literature, nine hypotheses were developed in order to investigate which of these determinants relate to an enhanced level of risk disclosure by the selected companies. The first required integrated reports of non-financial companies in the Top 40 index of the JSE Securities Exchange were investigated in this study. Regarding one area of investigation, namely the level of risk management disclosure, it was found that the disclosure of companies whose risk committee met more frequently and the disclosure of companies that employed a chief risk officer, were of a relatively higher standard. With regard to the other area of investigation, namely the level of risk identification and mitigation disclosure, no clearly significant determinant of enhanced disclosure was identified.

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosnadzirah Ismail ◽  
Rashidah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Normah Ahmad

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-hyphenate: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-themecolor: text1;">The East Asian financial crisis in 1997 and later the global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008 had a big impact on the corporate world as many companies and financial institutions collapsed during that period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor governance systems and lack of transparency in reporting including lack of risk reporting and disclosure were blamed as the roots of the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-themecolor: text1;">Conventional financial institutions have widely practiced risk management within their organization, but it is still under-developed in Islamic financial institutions due to new emerging market and unique business structures which are based on Shariah or Islamic law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-themecolor: text1;">his study examined the risk management disclosure by all 17 Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia from 2006 to 2009, covering the period before, during, and after the global financial crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A disclosure checklist consists of mandatory and voluntary items developed to measure the level of risk disclosure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The descriptive result shows the risk management disclosure among the Islamic Financial Institutions was satisfactory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Analysis for a four year period revealed that the risk disclosure has greatly improved before and after crisis indicating that Islamic Financial Institutions have taken the necessary steps to improve their disclosure.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>


Author(s):  
Nataliia Bondar ◽  
Viktoriya Fursova

Since the global financial crisis had impacted on all aspects of insurance companies' activities, it became necessary to focus on the activities of insurers and further improve the integrated risk and capital management of global and regional insurers. The purpose of the research is to analyze differences between national and European standards for risk identification in Ukrainian insurance companies, and to provide suggestions for improving the mechanism of risk insurance management. Using the method of comparative analysis and the method of content analysis of national and international solvency standards for insurance companies, the national characteristics of the types of insurance risks and the organization of the implementation of European legislation in domestic practice were determined. By the method of generalization and deduction, the key challenges for improving the effectiveness of insurance risk management in Ukrainian practice were identified. The results of the study shows the necessity to implement a unified system of insurance risk management in Ukrainian practice, which contents national and global characteristics of the functioning of insurance markets. The results of the research have significant practical implications for insurance companies and state government insurance market and can serve as a basis for improvement of theoretical principles concerning the identification of insurance risks and implementing European experience of insurance companies in national practice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Valery V. Karpov ◽  
Anna G. Breusova ◽  
Anna A. Korableva

The article is devoted to the theoretical foundations and analysis of the experience of subjects of the Russian Federation in the field of regional development risk management. The article examines the concept of risk, its difference and relationship with the concepts of uncertainty, threat, danger, security and others. It is determined that dangers are constantly present in the regional economy. And risk, as a measurable uncertainty with multiple outcomes, for which the probability of occurrence of a risk event is calculated, is manifested as a result of the occurrence of a hazard. When comparing the concepts of risk and security, this means that the security of the regional economy is manifested in the ability to resist threats and manage risks, and not in the complete absence of dangers. It is revealed that ISO standards distinguish between the concepts of risk management and risk management. For further discussion, risk management is understood as a systematic approach to using the full range of mechanisms available to public authorities to reduce emerging risks and threats to the socio-economic development of the region. Further, the analysis of risk management in the practice of regional management on the example of the Omsk, Novosibirsk and Tyumen regions is carried out. The relevant tools in the activities of government bodies, such as territorial development strategies, state programs and projects, were identified, which allowed us to introduce a classification of risks with the allocation of strategic, tactical risks of territorial development and project management risks, among which there is a strategic level. The analysis of the implemented tools for compliance with the mandatory stages of risk management showed mainly the absence of risk identification, unified requirements for risk accounting and systematic risk management of regional development. Among the assessed regions, the Tyumen region has the best practices in terms of risk management. For a more detailed analysis authors highlighted the key institutional and instrumental elements of risk management such as risk committee, strategic risk map, risk register, action plan for risk management, and defined logical relationships between them.


Author(s):  
Christopher Hood ◽  
Rozana Himaz

This chapter describes the long 2010–15 fiscal squeeze under the first Conservative–Liberal coalition since the early 1920s, in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and with debt and deficit at levels not seen for four decades or more. It included sharp political debate over timing, depth, and tax/spending balance of fiscal squeeze, with most of the coalition squeeze based on its Labour predecessor’s plans, and the deficit reduction outcome roughly the same as those Labour plans, principally because of shortfall on the revenue side. This episode was marked by a repeat of ‘bear trap’ tactics by the incumbents, and the post-squeeze 2015 election rewarded one party in the coalition, while the other party was heavily punished and so was the Labour Opposition. How far the victory of ‘Vote Leave’ (Brexit) in the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the EU can be attributed to fiscal squeeze is debatable.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-67
Author(s):  
Diah Novianti

Islamic banking such as the other business institution will face different kind of risk that inherent on its main business activity. In business, risk defined as a posibillity an can appear every time, before, when, and after the decision making. Islamic banking faced different risk with the conventional banking, because its uniquenes. Thus, the development of risk management framework in Islamic banking is very important to do, especially in frame of  risk identification, measuring, mitigation and monitoring. This paper will discuss about risk management in Islamic Banking, in theoretically and the implementation of risk management. The scope of this study will include the identification of risk in Islamic Banking, stage of risk management in Islamic Banking, risk management model, and also the devolpment of risk management framework in Islamic Banking.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Michael Tinggi ◽  
Shaharudin Jakpar ◽  
Ng Kim Hui

The study is potentially, to explore the effect of discounting for risk on performance of firms listed in Malaysian stocks&rsquo; market. Risk management has been part of the corporate philosophy in maximizing shareholders&rsquo; wealth and firms&rsquo; profit. Managing risk cannot be done in isolation. Too often common risks pertinent to operation, liquidity and financing may be taken for granted by many firms. Risks exist on stand alone, but its implication may negatively severe firms&rsquo; performance if not addressed or dealt with properly. Integrating and managing risks may potentially improve the quality of business processes, which may orientate towards attaining firms&rsquo; performance at the corporate level. The 2007 global financial crisis has incidentally highlighted the importance of integrating and managing risk and its effect on business. Empirical evidences from the Panel Random Effect (RE) analysis of the above companies showed that the firm&rsquo;s ability to manage and integrate operating, liquidity, and financial risks steer the firms towards performance orientation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Sayed M. Fadel ◽  
Jasim Al-Ajmi

The objectives of this study are to determine 1) the effect of global economic and financial crisis on risk management, 2) the severity of different types of risk facing Islamic banks, 3) the risk levels of Islamic financial modes, 4) risk assessment techniques, and 5) risk management techniques. The structure of the balance sheet, the nature of Islamic finance instruments and funding sources have a great impact on the level of risk exposure of banks and the instruments. Credit risk is found to be the most serious risk, followed by liquidity risk, market risk and operational risk, in descending order of importance. As for the riskiness of Islamic financing modes, mudarabah is perceived to be the riskiest, followed by musharakah, while murabahah ranked as the least risky mode. Moreover, Islamic banks are found to use traditional risk management techniques more than sophisticated measurements. They also adopt risk mitigation techniques that are used by conventional banks in preference to techniques that are considered to be unique to Islamic banks. This paper is the first to study the risk management practices of Islamic banks operating in Bahrain. It also provides evidence about these practices after the global financial crisis that affected all countries, including Bahrain.


2018 ◽  
pp. 2183-2205
Author(s):  
Hasan Dinçer ◽  
Ümit Hacıoğlu ◽  
Serhat Yüksel

Financial crisis affected many people and companies in the world negatively in terms of job loss and bankruptcy. Owing to this aspect, today many banks developed strategies in order to minimize the effects of any potential crisis which might be occurred in the future. Present study aims to evaluate the strategies of Turkish banks to minimize the effects of financial crisis by using fuzzy ANP and fuzzy TOPSIS methods. The study identifies that capital injection is the most significant strategy whereas the strategy of decreasing interest rate has the weakest importance. In addition to this aspect, it was also determined that privately-owned banks are the most successful banking group of Turkey with respect to the achievement of strategic goals during a financial crisis. On the other hand, state-owned banks have the lowest degree regarding this concept. The study recommends that Turkish banks should mainly focus on increasing capital amount in order to minimize the negative aspects of the crisis


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