Risk Management: From Risk Metrics to Human Behaviours

Protect your organization against financial misconduct

In Financial Risk Management: From Metrics to Human Conduct, Frantz Maurer delivers a thorough and practical review of the core methods used by professionals in the real world to reduce the risk of financial misconduct. Starting with the key points of banking regulation, the author then describes in simple terms the most extensively used risk metrics in the banking industry. Readers can fully grasp and implement the techniques discussed within without a strong background in probabilities or statistics. The last part of the book focuses on conduct risk markers and show how to implement a conduct risk index that benchmarks the conduct of natural risk-takers like traders.

The author describes how to marry this simple approach to financial risk with a conduct risk index that benchmarks the conduct of natural risk-takers, like traders.

Readers will also find:

• Step-by-step guidance on how to apply common risk indicators to real-world situations
• Actionable advice for improving the resilience of financial institutions against individual misconduct and misbehavior

A holistic and non-quantitative approach to a subject of critical importance, Financial Risk Management: From Metrics to Human Conduct will earn a place in the libraries of risk managers, compliance professionals, and master’s level students in business administration and finance.

FRANTZ MAURER is a Professor of Finance and the head of the accounting, finance and economics department at KEDGE Business School. He has also taught at HEC Paris, the University of Bordeaux, ESCP Business School, and University Paris Saclay.