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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Emerging Markets Workplace Safety

When a typical person from the developed world asks me about risk management practices in the emerging markets, I have this sense they just don't quite grasp what we are dealing with much of the time as risk managers. Over the years I have amassed some of the most incredible and unbelievable stories of dysfunction, yet ... society kind of works it all out pieced together by a thread. Much of the madness that goes on is unfathomable unless you see it with your own eyes, if you are looking out for it that is.

Just as a typical example; on my way to a risk management meeting of all things with a bank this morning, I was presented with a couple of images which starkly represent what I mean when I say risk management in the emerging markets has its challenges.

Friday, September 4, 2015

RMA Credit Risk Brown Bag

If you are in Singapore on the 17th of September and you work in the world of credit risk, this RMA credit risk program looks like an interesting presentation to attend.