Measuring and mitigating internal and external risk
Understanding risk both foreign and domestic is a vital part of central banking. From managing portfolio risk to evaluating systemic risk and mitigating operational risks, Bloomberg's tools and data have you covered.
Powerful solutions: Risk
Bloomberg's comprehensive solutions enable central banks to act quickly and decisively to conduct open market operations, control risk, oversee markets and manage foreign reserves. Our tools adapt to your needs and the markets — so you always remain on the cutting edge.
Market risk
To establish a truly efficient workflow, your data supply chain requires high-quality, consistent, and robust information from a single source. Bloomberg offers consolidated access to 35 million instruments across all asset classes; rapid, real-time market data at your fingertips; key reference data and more.
Whether analyzing your positions or the broader market, Bloomberg offers a range of risk analytics, as well an in-house staff of professionals providing in-depth analysis and data sets on industries, governments, credit, litigation and economic factors. Counterparty risk
Whether calculating the probability of default or the credit valuation adjustment (CVA) across your holdings Bloomberg has you covered.
Bloomberg also allows you to construct custom fixed income curves to visualize the evolution of interest rates and evaluate the value of bonds relative to a benchmark
Banking sector risk
Along with the ability to construct custom yield curves and calculate default probabilities using market data or your own proprietary data, Bloomberg offers a full suite of products to monitor sector risk. From fundamental data, debt exposure and analysts’ ratings. Bloomberg also maintains detailed dashboards on European, North American and Asian banks, which includes data and analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI) analysts. BI has a team of over 250 experienced research professionals and economists with senior analysts averaging 20 years of buy- and sell-side experience.
Internal risk
Changing regulatory requirements, new communication platforms, and rapidly growing data volumes can make compliance daunting. Enterprises are struggling to manage surveillance and investigations across various communication sources, and managing trade data further exacerbates the issue. A complex and dynamic regulatory environment requires an integrated, up-to-the-minute approach to compliance. Bloomberg Vault provides supervision and surveillance tools, cutting-edge investigative functionality, advanced reporting and immutable storage for record-keeping requirements.
