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But as the appetite for risk returns--and it always does--companies are promising long-lasting change. This time around, they'll handle it differently, they say. Banks are stuffing their boards with risk experts. Trade groups are circulating white papers on the need for risk-adjusted compensation all the...
That is exactly the sort of top-down control financial firms now say they want. Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit vows to be a "hands-on participant" in risk management. In August, UBS chairman Peter Kurer broke the firm into three separate units partly because the old structure, he said, encouraged...
It is tempting to say that this time is different, that the pain has been so severe and ongoing, the lessons will be remembered. Four exchanges, with encouragement from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, have volunteered to create a clearinghouse for the...
The most high-profile attempt has been the Treasury Department's requirement that banks participating in its recapitalization program make sure senior executives' pay doesn't entice them to take "unnecessary and excessive risks that threaten the value of the financial institution." What exactly that means, though, has been lobbed...
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