Prudent risk management first identifies the risk, then quantifies the risk and finally manages the risk. The treasury manager is often charged with managing risk as it applies to the company's financial assets.

Risk Management Terms
This glossary page is maintained by The Treasury Management Association of Canada.

RiskGlossary.com
This glossary site is maintained by Contingency Analysis (see below).

Key Risk Concepts

The Standardised Approach to Credit Risk
From the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Glossary of Derivatives Terms
From Financial Pipeline.

A Brief Guide to Financial Derivatives
This page is in the Pennsylvania State Securities Commission site and provides a basic discussion of the use and risks of financial derivatives.

Demysifying Financial Derivatives
Written by Rene M. Stulz, finance and banking professor at Ohio State University, published in PDF by the Milken Institute Review in 2005.

Derivatives
Numa Financial Systems provides references, and index and calculators for options and warrants along with links to other sites.

Corporate Financial Risk Management: An Executive Overview of Leading Practices and Solutions for the Governance, Management and Control of Financial Risk
A publication of the Association of Financial Professionals. This book provides senior management with an executive overview of many of the key developments in corporate financial risk management.

Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options
Comprehensive booklet describing standardized options prepared by The Options Clearing Corporation.

Contingency Analysis
This is the home page for Contingency Analysis, a consulting service specializing in risk management. The site contains over 300 pages of information on financial risk management. Topics include: value at risk, derivative instruments, credit risk management and financial engineering.

RiskMetrics™
This site covers the RiskMetrics™ product, which is a methodology to estimate market risk based on the Value-at-Risk approach. All of the documentation (this includes a monthly printable report of benchmark volatilities and correlations) can be downloaded from this site in Adobe Acrobat™ format.