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Bank risk: essence and basic approaches to definitions

Available online: 27 February 2013

Subject Heading: Banking

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An integral part of professional banking risk management is to identify the nature of the object of control in this area, which is inextricably linked to an explicit formulation of the conceptual apparatus. Since the domestic theory of risk management is being developed, the problem for a clear comprehensive definition of "bank risk" gets now a special urgency. In this article the nature of the economic category "bank risk", the basic approaches to the content of the concept of this category, the analysis of interpretations of the term "banking risks", offered by domestic and foreign authors, in which marked their advantages and disadvantages are considered. The number of characteristics, which has developed on the basis of the author's version of determining the economic category "bank risk", is offered.

Keywords: banking, bank liquidity, bank risk, bank losses, probability, uncertainty, risk-management

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