Introducing the City

Session VIII

INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Wednesday, 14th May 2008
Goal: To describe London's involvement in the international insurance and risk transfer markets. The session introduces the participants in the market, explains the structures and shows how insurance and capital markets are converging.

Insurance

  • Providers of capital and its role
  • Dependence on investment markets
  • The history of risk
  • Categories of risk
  • How risks arise
  • To accept, mitigate or transfer risk?
  • Classes of insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • Alternative methods of risk transfer

David Wilson
Finance Director
PRICE FORBES

Risk Management in a Financial Institution

  • Capital – the life blood of the financial services industry
  • Characteristics of operational risk
  • Other critical risk factors
  • Impacts of IFRS, Basel II and MiFID

Steve Wish
Head, Operational Risk Europe
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK


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