Mike Power discusses better quality risk management

There are three things wrong. The first is that risk management has become too bureaucratic. It emphasises a controls-based approach, characterised by excessive box-ticking. The second is in the financial arena, where banks and other financial institutions became reliant on value-at-risk models. Those models were dependent on a range of assumptions, not least an implicit assumption about liquidity and the real availability of interbank funding.

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