Managing Extreme Financial Risk: Strategies and Tactics for Going Concerns - Softcover

Paul, Karamjeet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124172210 ISBN 13: 9780124172210

Publisher: Academic Press, 2013

Synopsis

Managing Extreme Financial Risk addresses the need for better management strategies in light of increased market risk and volatility in financial institutions' revenue models. Top officials from the financial and regulatory industries point to real corporate issues, showing how institutions react to financial crises. From first-hand experiences, they explain how effective sustainability management does not just prevent being blindsided; it also leads to proactive solutions that enhance an institution's strength to weather a sudden financial crisis, add significant shareholder value, and reduce systemic risk. Readable, coherent, and logical, Managing Extreme Financial Risk shows how extreme risk needs to be handled when the cost of being wrong means the difference between life and death of the institution.

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About the Author

Karamjeet Paul has over 30 years of operating, finance, treasury, and exposure managment experience, giving him unique expertise in identifying and addressing critical risk-exposure-reward and other strategic issues at the highest levels in large organizations. Mr. Paul's perspective has been gleaned from hands-on experience in large global organizations, startups in entrepreneurial settings, and consulting assignments.

From the Back Cover

How can financial firms best protect themselves during periods of turbulence? Managing Extreme Financial Risk explores the need for more successful management strategies in light of increased market risk and volatility in financial institutions’ revenue models. Top officials from the financial and regulatory industries point to real corporate issues, showing in real terms how institutions react to financial crises. From first-hand experiences, they explain how effective sustainability management does not just prevent being blindsided. It also leads to proactive solutions that enhance an institution’s strength to weather a sudden financial crisis, add significant shareholder value, and reduce systemic risk. Readable, coherent, and logical, Managing Extreme Financial Risk shows how extreme risk needs to be handled when the cost of being wrong means the difference between life and death of the institution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0124172210
• ISBN 13: 9780124172210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172