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Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Harvard Corporate Governance

This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon. more…).

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Mayer Brown Discusses Bank Regulators’ Proposed Overhaul of Capital Requirements

Reynolds Holding

Require these banking organizations to calculate their risk-based capital ratios under the existing standardized approach and expanded standardized approach (a “dual-stack” requirement), and use the lower (less favorable) ratio of the two. About 40 banking organizations currently are subject to the market risk capital requirement.

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The Fundamentals of Financial Risk Management Explained

Audit Board

Financial risk is the likelihood that the organization will lose money on a business investment or other decision, including loss of capital. Below are six types of risks that fall into the financial sphere, including operational risk, credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, legal risk, and foreign exchange risk.

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Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Proposed Capital-Requirement Increases for Banks

Reynolds Holding

The main thrust of the proposal is to eliminate the use of models in relation to credit risk and operational risk and, for market risk exposures, to make the use of models much more difficult to be approved (and to stay approved). from outside the large banking organizations).

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Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) - Can it Enhance Valuation?

Equilest

The theory suggests that the expected return on an asset can be modeled as a linear function of various macroeconomic factors or "factor loadings" that affect the asset's risk, such as market risk, industry risk, and country risk. First, we need to estimate the factor loadings for each risk factor.

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Morrison & Foerster Discusses Proposed Revisions to Capital Framework for Large Banking Organizations

Reynolds Holding

There would be no change in the capital framework for smaller firms, except that those firms with significant trading activities would be subject to the market-risk capital provisions. This new approach would include standardized risk-weights for credit, equity, operational, and credit valuation adjustment risk.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Reynolds Holding

This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon. With a fixed exchange ratio, the target’s shareholders bear market risk as it relates to the acquirer’s stock. Fixed Exchange Ratios.