Senior Supervisors Group Issues Observations on Risk Management Practices During the Recent Market Turbulence

  • According to the Senior Supervisors Group, firms that dealt most successfully with the market turmoil of late 2007 demonstrated:
  • Better flow of information across the firm and more rigorous internal valuation mechanisms.
  • Effective management of funding liquidity, capital and the balance sheet.
  • Informative and responsive risk management practices.
  • In particular, three business lines where varying practices differentiated performance in response to the credit crunch were: CDO structuring, trading and warehousing; leveraged financing loans; and conduit and SIV businesses.

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