Balance Sheet: Volume 9 Issue 3

Financial markets: implications for financial stability

David Clementi

As deputy governor of the Bank of England, the author provides an overview of the trends in consolidation of the market before assessing current proposals on the capital adequacy…

Structural liquidity: the worry beneath the surface

Bob Falconer

The author provides an analysis of the underlying structural liability in the banking business by analysing balance sheets across the banking industry. He shows that the…

Asset and liability management for banks: a lawyer’s perspective

Ruth Finch

Risk management issues and the implications and implementation of the Basel Accord are concentrating the minds of the banking industry. The author assesses the implications and…

Effective risk management in financial institutions: the turnbull approach

Anthony Carey

Risk management is more important in the financial sector than in other parts of the economy. But it is difficult. The basis of banking and similar financial institutions is…

The risk of risk

Robert Eccles, Robert Herz, Mary Keegan, David Phillips

This is an exclusive extract from The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game, a new book published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and written by four senior…

Business discontinuity – a risk too far

Vicky Kubitscheck

The author considers the issue of business continuity planning and asks whether it can cope with the emerging risks of a new century and whether it fits with the move to an…

Building society case study: planning and forecasting

Abby Kyte

Describes, in case study form, how a UK‐based building society installed and operated a new system for financial planning and forecasting. Looks at the objectives, the way in…

The aftermath of Basel: a babel of responses as bankers have their say

Caroline Merrell

Asset and liability management: 2001 and beyond

Richard Fisher

Editorial

Robert Bruce