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Finance, insurance and capital steward of the Nexus Consortium

Risk evidence, read for the balance sheet.

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is a Nevada nonprofit corporation operating as a business league for the financial services industry, and an independent steward of the Nexus Consortium with the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). It reads evidence about interconnected risk in the terms banks, insurers, investors, development lenders and supervisors decide in, so they can prepare before losses arrive.

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  1. فۆرمکۆمپانیای ناقازانجیی نیڤادا؛ یەکێتیی بازرگانی بۆ پیشەسازیی خزمەتگوزارییە داراییەکان
  2. Address4500 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706, United States
  3. Consortium roleIndependent consortium steward with GCRI, the Lead Institution: finance, insurance and capital readiness
  4. NeverA fund, investment adviser, broker-dealer, insurer, insurance intermediary, rating agency or transaction platform

تۆماری دامەزراوەیی

01ئەرک

Why financial institutions need shared risk evidence.

Financial institutions price, hold and supervise risks that start in water, energy, food, health, infrastructure and technology. The evidence exists, but rarely in a form that answers a credit committee, an underwriter or a supervisor. GRA works to close that distance.

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Read risk evidence for its financial transmission: which balance sheets, which counterparties, which public budgets, through which channels and over what horizon.

ئامادەکردن

Assemble exposure, protection-gap and scenario evidence into readiness work, with every gap and limit stated, so a competent institution can begin its own review.

Cooperate

Bring professionals from across the industry together on shared, precompetitive questions, and build the skills the industry needs to understand systemic risk.

02مەترسی و وەڵامدانەوە

مەترسیی هاوبەستە، وەڵامدانەوەی جێبەجێکراو.

The sectors that carry exposure in grid blackout and how a loss in one passes to the others, across portfolios and public finances.

چوارچێوەیەک هەڵبژێرە

Aمەترسی هاوبەستە لە شەش کەرتدا10 / 15 پەیوەندی

کەرتەکان · کوژانەوەی تۆڕی کارەبافشار

نموونەیی: زنجیرەی کاریگەریی فێرکاری لەسەر بەهای فێرکاری، نەک پێوانە.
BApplied response across six pillars9 / 18 handoffs

کۆڵەکەکان · کوژانەوەی تۆڕی کارەباKPI

بەکارهێنانە نموونەییەکان؛ بەهاکان پێوەرە بڵاوکراوەکانن و لە خوێندنەوەکەدا سەرچاوەیان دەگوترێت.

لەم چوارچێوەیەداپشتبەستن یان دەستبەدەستکردن، قورستر بەهێزترەدەرەوەی ئەم چوارچێوەیە

چوارچێوە

کوژانەوەی تۆڕی کارەبا

بەبێ کارەبا، پاڵاوتنی ئاو، پەیوەندییەکان، زنجیرەی سارد و نەخۆشخانەکان پشت بە سووتەمەنییەک دەبەستن کە تەواو دەبێت.

W · E · I · F · H · B

مەترسی

کەرتەکان
5 لە 6
پەیوەندییەکان
10 لە 15
هاوبەستی
0.72 بەشی کۆی گشتی

بەسەر گۆشە، هێڵ یان ڕیزێکدا ڕابوەستە بۆ شوێنکەوتنی لە هەردوو لادا.

ڕێڕەو

Applied to grid blackout

L · F · U · S · R · A

وەڵامدانەوە

کۆڵەکەکان
4 لە 6
دەستبەدەستکردنەکان
9 لە 18
خولەکان
8 داخراو

بەهای چاوەڕوانکراو

چی لە مەترسیدایە
$390Ba year at least, in infrastructure disruption costs to households and firms in low- and middle-income countriesWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019
گەڕانەوەی وەبەرهێنان لە خۆڕاگریدا
4 : 1قازانج بۆ تێچووWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019 (هێڵە ژیانییەکان)
زیانی دوورخراوە
–هیچ پێوەرێکی بڵاوکراو نییە

بەسەر کۆڵەکە، هێڵ یان ڕیزێکدا ڕابوەستە بۆ خوێندنەوەی چۆنیەتی بەکارهێنانی.

A: زنجیرەی کاریگەریی فێرکاری (شۆک 0.6، قازانج 0.35، چوار خول) لەسەر بەهای فێرکاری بۆ ناوچە-شارێکی ئاسایی، نەک پێوانە. B: بەکارهێنانی نموونەیی و KPI یەک کە هەر کۆڵەکەیەک وەڵامی دەداتەوە؛ بەهاکان پێوەری بڵاوکراون، سەرچاوەدار، نەک پێشبینی. ڕووداوە کراوەکان: NASA EONET، ڕاستەوخۆ.

03The business-league model

Organised for the industry’s common interest.

A business league is a membership organisation of an industry that works to improve conditions for that industry as a whole. Its purpose is the common business interest, not the private business of any one member.

  1. 01

    Common problems, shared work

    GRA works on questions every institution faces and none can answer alone: correlated exposures, protection gaps, shared dependencies and the methods to measure them.

  2. 02

    No bespoke services to members

    GRA does not perform members’ own credit, underwriting, investment or risk-management work for them. Its outputs are designed to serve the industry and the public, and are published where review and rights allow.

  3. 03

    Competitors in one room, under rules

    Because members compete, GRA’s programmes are designed around competition-law safeguards that keep cooperation precompetitive. They are set out in a written competition policy that counsel reviews before membership opens.

  4. 04

    Nonprofit purpose

    GRA is not organised for profit. Any future membership contributions support its common purpose and are published with their issuer, currency, effective date and schedule.

04GRA لە کۆنسۆرتیۆمدا

GCRI supplies the evidence. GRA reads it for finance.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) is the Lead Institution of the Nexus Consortium and, through GCRI Canada, its Secretariat and lead contracting organisation. GRA and The Global Risks Forum (GRF) are independent consortium stewards with GCRI. GRA’s place is precise: it is accountable for finance, insurance and capital readiness.

Who is accountable for what across GCRI, GRF and GRA
دامەزراوەAccountable forWorks with GRA by
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI): GCRI Canada, its lead organisation, and GCRI US, its United States institutionLead Institution: evidence, methods and technical assistance; GCRI Canada is the Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisationSupplying the hazard, dependency and exposure evidence that GRA reads for finance, and the Consortium Secretariat for country and consortium programme enquiries
Global Risks Forum (GRF)Independent steward: policy, governance, convening and the Universe annual programmeGoverning the annual test, in which a finance and insurance readiness track is designed for GRA’s contribution
Global Risks Alliance (GRA)Independent steward: finance, insurance and capital readinessTurning risk evidence into diligence material that competent financial institutions can review, never an approval or a transaction
In agenda formation

GRA’s readiness process is designed to identify financial transmission, protection gaps and diligence requirements for candidate missions, without selecting or recommending investments.

In the annual test

Finance and insurance readiness is one of the planned tracks of the exercise week of Universe, the annual programme governed by GRF: one year of work, one month to build, one week to test and a planned stand-down, with review and corrections continuing afterwards.

In publication

GRA’s analysis is designed to inform the finance and insurance chapter of the annual Reports flagship: protection gaps, transmission and diligence questions.

GRA is not the legal parent, agent or treasury of any consortium, and no consortium speaks for GRA. GCRI’s evidence and programmes are described on About GCRI; GRF’s programmes on GRF programmes.

05سنوورەکانی چالاکیی ڕێکخراو

Where GRA’s work stops, and whose begins.

Every regulated financial activity has an authorised actor accountable for it. GRA stays on the evidence side of each line, and says so beside every output.

چالاکیWhat GRA doesWhat GRA never doesکێ بڕیار دەدات
LendingFrames credit-transmission questions and scenario evidenceLend, arrange, negotiate or commit creditBanks and development lenders
بیمەIdentifies exposure and protection gaps, and the data an insurer would needUnderwrite, sell, solicit, negotiate, place or broker coverLicensed insurers, reinsurers and brokers
وەبەرهێنانPrepares long-horizon resilience evidence and open diligence questionsInvest, manage assets, advise on securities or on their issue, or offer, solicit or recommend any security or financial productAsset owners, managers and their advisers
Rating and assessmentLabels every piece of evidence and its limitsIssue ratings, scores, bankability grades or certificatesRegistered rating agencies and assessors
Approval and executionReleases a readiness dossier, at the programme owner’s written direction, to a party that owner choosesApprove, execute, introduce parties to a transaction, take transaction-based pay, hold funds or move moneyThe receiving institution, under its own authority
SupervisionOffers scenario evidence that supervisors may choose to useSupervise, regulate, or seek privileged access to an authorityCentral banks, supervisors and regulators

A readiness dossier is evidence for a subsequent, independent financial review. It is never a financing or underwriting decision. The full non-execution boundary is set out on Trust and integrity.

06Independence and competition law

Competitors can cooperate on evidence. Never on markets.

An industry body is useful only if its findings cannot be bought and its meetings cannot be used to coordinate. GRA’s programmes are designed around safeguards for both, in a written competition policy that counsel reviews before membership opens.

پاراستنەکانی ڕکابەری
  • No discussion of prices, premiums, rates, fees, wages, bids, or underwriting, lending or coverage terms offered to customers
  • No allocation of markets, customers or territories, no collective refusal to deal, and no collective commitment on which sectors, firms or projects to finance, insure or invest in
  • No exchange of a member’s confidential or competitively sensitive information
  • Written agendas, recorded minutes, and a meeting stopped if it strays; concerns to the integrity and conduct concern form
Independence safeguards
  • No sponsor or member may approve a publication or change its evidence
  • Funding grants no ownership of findings or data
  • Conflicts of interest declared and recorded, with recusal where they bear on a decision
  • Contributors keep their background rights; membership transfers none

Membership criteria are designed to be objective, published with the membership terms and applied equally to every applicant, and participation in GRA is designed never to restrict a member’s independent commercial decisions. How these rules apply to members is set out on Membership.

07حوکمڕانی

Records first, then roles.

GRA publishes a governance fact when a record supports it. Until a document is adopted and reviewed, this site does not describe it as in force.

  1. 01

    Corporate governance

    GRA is a nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industry. Its board, oversight and legal identity are governed by its corporate documents, and further governance facts appear on this site when a record supports them.

  2. 02

    حوکمڕانیی ئەندامان

    Member rights, and any voting, follow the bylaws and membership terms once adopted. No member right is implied by this page.

    Terms not yet published
  3. 03

    خەڵک و ڕۆڵە بەرپرسیارەکان

    Officers, council members and representatives are named only with a current, verified record. Nobody should cite this site as evidence that they hold a GRA role.

  4. 04

    Consortium relationships

    Each institution keeps its own governance, finances and liability, and a shared programme does not merge them. An agreement between them is described here only when a record supports it.

  5. 05

    Corrections and accountability

    Anyone can challenge a GRA statement at the integrity concern form. Corrections are designed to become recorded versions, and complaints to be reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision.

08پرەنسیپەکان

Four rules that keep evidence apart from authority.

Financial readers rely on clear lines. These four rules sit beside GRA’s work so no one mistakes preparation for a decision.

01

Participation is not authority

Taking part in a GRA platform, working group or council gives no one power to speak for GRA, for a consortium or for any public authority.

02

Readiness is not approval

A readiness dossier states fitness for a next step within a scope and evidence state. It is never a rating, a certificate or a commitment to finance.

03

Visibility is not endorsement

GRA does not endorse a name, a logo or a project because it appears on a GRA page, and GRA’s appearance on another’s page does not mean GRA endorses it.

04

Stewardship is not execution

GRA stewards evidence and professional cooperation. Execution, of a loan, a policy, an investment or a public decision, stays with the competent actor.

Behind the four rules sit the evidence practices every GRA output follows: one evidence label per claim, missing data shown as missing, limits stated beside findings and corrections recorded as new versions.

10پرسیارەکان

Questions about GRA as an institution.

What is a business league, and why is GRA one?
A business league is a nonprofit membership organisation of an industry that works on the industry’s common business interest rather than the private business of its members. Systemic risk is exactly such a common problem: no single bank, insurer or investor can measure or manage it alone, so the work belongs to the industry as a whole.
Is GRA a regulated financial institution?
No. GRA is not a licensed or supervised financial firm, and its work is designed to stay outside regulated financial activity: it does not lend, underwrite, broker, solicit, advise on or offer securities, manage assets, rate, hold client money or execute transactions.
Does GRA speak for the financial industry or its members?
GRA speaks for itself, through its own publications and positions. Membership does not mean that a member endorses a GRA position, or that GRA endorses a member. Positions taken on public policy are identified as GRA’s own.
How is GRA different from GCRI?
GCRI is the Lead Institution of the Nexus Consortium: it produces the science and evidence, and through GCRI Canada holds the Secretariat and contracts for the Consortium. GRA is the financial services business league that reads that evidence for finance, insurance and capital readiness, as an independent consortium steward. Each keeps its own legal responsibilities.
Who funds GRA, and can funders influence its findings?
GRA’s design is that any funding source is disclosed with the work it supports. No sponsor or member may approve a publication, alter its evidence or own its findings by virtue of funding, and membership contributions buy no outcome.
Why are no board members, members or figures listed on this page?
GRA publishes people, member lists and figures only when a current, verified record supports them. Earlier statements made on GRA pages are withdrawn from use until each has a dated, sourced record.
ReportsContribute

لەم لاپەڕەیەوە بەڵگە پێشکەش بکە.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.

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هەرگیز داتای کەسی، وردەکاریی هەستیاری ژێرخان یان هیچ شتێک مەنێرە کە مافی بڵاوکردنەوەت نییە. بەشدارییەک پێش بەکارهێنان پێداچوونەوەی بۆ دەکرێت؛ ناردنی ماف نابەخشێت بە نووسەرایەتی یان بەڕێوەبردنی ڕاگەیاندن، و پاڵپشتی دارایی هەرگیز دۆزینەوەیەک ناکڕێت.

پەیوەندی

Work with an institution that knows where its role ends.

Write to GRA about the institution and its work. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step. An enquiry does not create membership, an engagement or any financial commitment.