The RiskMinds 2012 - The World's Leading Risk Management Conference

RiskMinds is the world’s largest and longest running annual risk management conference.

Over the past 18 years, the event has gathered together:

• Leading industry CROs (including CROs from Deutsche Bank, Nomura, RBS, Citi, Barclays Bank, UBS, DBS)
• Renowned academics (including Professor Merton, Professor Scholes, Professor Engle, Professor Duffie)
• Influential Supervisors from all the major jurisdictions (incuding The Basel Committee, The Federal Reserve Board, the FSA, Finma, Bafin, Banco De Espana)
• Expert risk practitioners from the leading banking institutions (including Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, HSBC)

The event is the date to mark in the diary for the risk management community and it regularly attracts over 600 industry professionals!  The 2011 event was a fantastic success for all involved with debate on the future for regulation, the role of the CRO and technical sessions from leading practitioners.

THE NOBEL LAUREATE ADDRESS!  Professor Robert Engle of STERN NYU gave an academic address on Volatility, Correlation & Tails For Systemic Risk Measurement the room was packed and there was over 40 minutes of questions from the audience afterwards!

BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE AND THE CRO: Professor Hersh Shefrin hosted a Behavioural Finance Masterclass On How To Achieve A Risk Culture (using BP & Ford as case studies) and it inspired the CROs so much that one CRO panel concluded that each company should employ a behavioural finance expert- watch this space!

THE CFO'S PERSPECTIVE ON RISK MANAGEMENT: Chng Sok Hui, CFO, DBS Group joined us to give a special address on understanding risk in finance and will be exploring the different views on the balance sheet and capital management.  Her talk was very popular and it was very interesting to get the CFO's insight into risk management

THE RISKMINDS FRESH PERSPECTIVE CRO WORKING GROUPS -External experts (in behavioural finance, leadership and the economy) offered a fresh perspective on risk management and then our global CRO faculty joined together to discuss how these fresh ideas could be usefully implemented within risk management strategy

THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL UPDATE: John Micklethwait, Editor In Chief of THE ECONOMIST offered his views on the current state of our economy and his predictions moving forward.  Delegates were invited to quiz John and some interesting topics were raised- an example was whether GB would join the US dollar!

THE GUEST LECTURE SERIES: Attendees heard the latest academic research on the risk management industry.  Key themes were systemic risk, central clearing, CoCo's and transfer pricing.