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About Pascal vander Straeten
I am a seasoned financial risk manager with over twenty years of experience in global commercial banking. I am passionate in financial markets, the understanding of extreme events, risk management, economics, and geopolitics.
Posts by Pascal:
Unwarranted Bullishness about Hellenic Republic Debt
By Pascal vander Straeten September 15, 2023 The lesser known rating agency, DBRS, has upgraded: – the Hellenic Republic’s Long-Term Foreign…
The Need for Countercyclical Risk Management
By Pascal vander Straeten September 11, 2023 From a systemic banking risk perspective, the U.S. office sector is most at risk,…
Managing Uncertainty with HRO Principles
By Pascal vander Straeten September 01, 2023 Since the GFC of 2007-2008, there have been a lot of articles written heralding…
Financial Markets and Non-Equilibrium
By Pascal vander Straeten August 01, 2023 It is now widely acknowledged that, by nature of their design, the models developed…
Flak Defense against Tail Risks
By Pascal vander Straeten July 01, 2023 In the aftermath of the GFC, “the fundamental risk management failure” remains unaddressed by…
The risk management of extreme events and chaos theory
By Pascal vander Straeten June 01, 2023 Today’s business models are designed to avoid complications and to operate in stable…
The Interaction between Geopolitics and Financial Markets: Geofinance
By Pascal vander Straeten May 01, 2023 Global market reactions can be significantly or persistently influenced by geopolitical events, as…
Homo versus Machinam in Mercatis OEconomus
By Pascal vander Straeten March 27, 2023 Do you not find it interesting? Despite the fact that black box quantitative…
The Art of Risk Management
By Pascal vander Straeten February 22, 2023 The profession of intelligence gathering is often compared to the art of risk…
How the Illness of “Falsus Sensus Certitudinis” Affects Risk Management?
By Pascal vander Straeten January 30, 2023 In the financial services sector, risk management has become dominated by numbers and…