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Case Analysis Of Credit Foncier

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a. Overview of key financial and operational risks faced by the company

Today, banks faced multiple risks inherent to their activity, whether they are financial or operational.
The financial risks that faces Credit Foncier are the credit/counterparty risks and the structural risks:
- The credit risk: is the risk of financial losses that arises when a counterparty is unable to meet its contractual obligations, this can cause a change in credit quality or default by the counterparty.
- The counterparty risk: is when the counterparty to a transaction might default before the settlement of all cash payments.
The structural risk raised by the management of asset and liability are split in three:
- Liquidity risk: is not being able to honor one’s commitments or not …show more content…

 Insurance risk: Since January 1, 2011, Credit Foncier has benefited from the business insurance programmes subscribed by BPCE, covering all Group entities.
 Caisse de retraite risk: Pursuant to Article 116 of the Act of August 21, 2003, the Caisse de Retraite du Credit Foncier, which was set up in 1989, was transformed into a supplementary pension management institution and renamed CRCFF-IGRS. This decision was approved by the decision of the Insurance and Mutual Company regulatory authority (ACAM) on March 11, 2009 and published in the Official Journal of April 3, 2009. Credit Foncier has thus outsourced all its risk pertaining to pensions currently being paid out (3,435 pensions).

c. Risk hedging strategies implemented by the company

- The risk hedging strategy implemented for the credit and counterparty risk raised is: the cessation of international activities and balance sheet deleveraging. The overall decrease in exposures for €3.9bn, mainly results

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