Loopholes in the law and ingenuous bankers will get the better of regulators even as they seemingly give into the law by shutting down proprietary trading desks.

Checking if a bank can cope with a crisis has yet to find its way in the governance structures of banks, says Martin Maurer, secretary general of the Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland

Risk and Regulation Working Group (RWG) member Martin Davies shares his views on what he thinks are the issues in risk management that banks seem to be missing. Davies is "a risk architect focused on structured products for emerging markets…

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