Expert Forum on Advanced Techniques on Stress Testing: Applications for Supervisors

May 2-3, 2006
IMF Headquarters, Meeting Hall A and B (3rd Floor)
Washington, D.C.

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PROGRAM

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
  Mr. Charles Enoch, Acting Director
Monetary and Financial Systems Department
   
Session 1 Why and How Stress Tests Are Used
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Stress Testing: The FSAP Experience
Mr. Tomás Jose T. Balino, International Monetary Fund
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Stress Testing at Major Financial Institutions: Survey, Results, and Practice
Ms. Yuko Kawai, Bank of Japan
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Scenario Selection for Financial Stability Stress Tests
Mr. Mathias Drehmann, Bank of England
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The Exposure of Swiss Banks to Macroeconomic Shocks
Mr. Hansjoerg Lehmann, Swiss National Bank
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Open Discussion
   
Session 2 Approaches to Stress Testing Credit Risk
  Chair: Mr. Thilo Liebig, Deutsche Bundesbank
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Stress Testing Credit Risk: The French Experience
Mr. Olivier Jaudoin, Banque de France
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Credit Risk Stress Testing for the Mexican Banking System
Mr. Javier Márquez Diez Canedo, Bank of Mexico
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Approaches to Stress Testing Credit Risk: Experience gained on Spanish FSAP
Messrs. Jesús Saurina and Carlos Trucharte, Bank of Spain
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Open Discussion
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break
   
Session 3 Stress Testing Market Risk
  Chair: Mr. Shaji Chandrasenan, Monetary Authority of Singapore
3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Recent Development in Stress Testing Market Risk
Mr. Gerald Krenn, Austrian National Bank
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Stress Testing Trading Desks
Mr. Michael Sullivan, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Group Photo
Coffee Break
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. The Interest Rate Risk of Mortgage Loan Portfolios of Banks—A case study of the Hong Kong market
Mr. Jim Wong, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Open Discussion
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. >Reception
Hosted by: Mr. Charles Enoch, Acting Director
Monetary and Financial Systems Department
   
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Session 4 Liquidity and Contagion Risks
  Chair: Mr. Errol Kruger, South African Reserve Bank
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Stress Testing Liquidity: A National Approach
Mr. Gilneu Francisco Astolfi Vivan, Central Bank of Brazil
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Cross Border Issues in Stress Testing
Mr. Jan Willem van den End, De Nederlandsche Bank
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Contagion in Payment and Settlement Systems
Mr. Matti Hellqvist, Bank of Finland
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Open discussion
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
   
Session 5 Specific Issues within Stress Test
  Chair: Mr. John Fell, European Central Bank
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Stress Testing: Insurance Companies in Canada
Mr. August C. Chow, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Stress Testing Conglomerates
Mr. Mike Carhill, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Stress Testing-Second Round Effects
Mr. Keith Hall, Reserve Bank of Australia
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Open Discussion
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch
   
Session 6 Market Practices in Stress testing—Possible Lessons to Be Learned
  Chair: Mr. Paul Kupiec, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Stress Testing Credit Risk
Mr. Joe Henbest, Algorithmics
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Counterparty Risk Management of Derivatives
Mr. Peter E. Haagensen, Deutsche Bank
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Stress Testing Operational Risk
Mr. Ali Samad-Khan, OpRisk Advisory LLC
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Business Session and Concluding Remarks
Mr. Jonathan Fiechter, Deputy Director,
Monetary and Financial Systems Department
Program Committee: David Marston and Kal Wajid