Banks at Risk (ePub)

Ideas on how to reform the financial services industry, from
experts on the inside

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 the practices of the
entire global financial services industry have been called into
question. From the government, to the media, to the general public,
everyone is re-thinking the way forward for the financial sector,
but the stakes are high. Should negative trends in the industry
continue and financial innovations allow fallout from the next
crisis to grow exponentially, the endgame could be the sort of
mutually assured destruction that topples entire economies.
Charting the way forward for financial services reform requires a
fundamental reappraisal of how things are done in order to avert
disaster in the near future, and Banks at Risk: Global Best
Practices in an Age of Turbulence explores what the future
holds, by talking to experts in the know.

Compiling the insights of ten key figures in the financial
services industry--regulators, commercial bankers, risk
managers, and infrastructure specialists--who look at both
strategic and operational issues in their assessments of how to
clean up the industry and move towards a system of properly-managed
risk, the book explores exactly what we need to do to prevent
another crisis.

Sharing their thoughts for the first time are Liu Mingkang, the
Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission; Eric
Rosengren, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Joel
Werkama, Assistant Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston; Jane Diplock, former chairperson of the International
Organization of Securities Commissions and the former head of New
Zealand's securities commission; Jose Maria Roldan, head of
the banking supervision at the Bank of Spain; Jesus Saurina,
Director of the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of
Spain; Dick Kovacevich, former chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo
Bank; Mike Smith, CEO of ANZ Group and former head of HSBC's
Asia Pacific operations; Shan Weijian, Chairman and CEO of Pacific
Alliance Group and former senior partner of TPG Capital; Rob Close,
former CEO of CLS Group; Tham Ming Soong, Chief Risk Officer at the
United Overseas Bank in Singapore; and Tsuyoshi Oyama, former head
of the risk assessment division in the international affairs
division of the Bank of Japan.

* Takes a unique look at the problems with the financial services
industry and what can be done to fix them

* Brings together ideas for reform from numerous internationally
respected figures working in the industry, many of them writing
about their solutions for the first time

* Offers a remarkable insight into how to build a more
sustainable future

Eminently thought provoking, Banks at Risk presents real
solutions to reforming the financial services industry, from the
men and women who know it best.