Risk Management at the Top : A Guide to Risk and Its Governance in Financial Institutions

With over 30 years? experience of risk management inbanks, Mark Laycock provides a comprehensive but succinctnon-technical overview of risk and its governance in financialinstitutions. Bridging the gap between texts on governance and theincreasingly technical aspects of risk management the book coversthe main risk types experienced by banks ? credit, market,operational and liquidity - outlines those risks before consideringthem from a governance perspective including the Board andExecutive Management. Addressing terminology issues that can confuse dialogue, and byproviding a bibliography alongside each chapter for more detaileddiscussion of the topic this book will ground readers with theknowledge they require to understand the unknown unknowns.