Section 3: Risk Management

The crisis showed deep failures in banks’ risk management – putting banks, regulators and governments under pressure to change operating codes. Compliance costs will rise, but the new standards are invigorating some businesses.

Citigroup’s Rajen Shah predicts increasing demand for third-party collateral-management services as regulators push for centralised clearing.

Good intentions are not enough, writes Richard Fenning. New enforcement regimes need boards to show real compliance throughout the tangled web of partners.

The Institute of International Finance has given banks a clear guide for re-engineering risk management, starting with a clear definition of risk appetites. Mark Lawrence reviews’ progress.

Hyun Song Shin challenges the ‘hot potato’ view of securitisation, which portrays it as a chain of unscrupulous operators passing on bad loans to a greater fool.
Basel III will regulate leverage ratios, Étienne Bordeleau, Christopher Graham and Allan Crawford look at the impact of the introduction of a regulatory leverage ceiling on Canada’s banks.

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