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Risk and Financial Catastrophe 2009th Edition
Author(s): E. Banks (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 28 Aug. 2009
- Edition: 2009th
- Language: English
- Print length: 221 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230577318
- ISBN-13: 9780230577312
Book Description
The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.
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About the Author
ERIK BANKS is responsible for group market risk and investment banking credit risk at the European universal bank UniCredit. Over the past 23 years, he has held senior risk positions at Citibank, Merrill Lynch and in the hedge fund sector, in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Munich. He is the author of more than 20 books on risk, derivatives, emerging markets and governance.
