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Risk Appetite is loosely defined as "the affinity a person has for taking risk when attempting to meet a specific objective".

This concept of risk appetite differs from person to person or business to business and interestingly you will find that a person's risk appetite changes as they age.

In this blog we look at risk appetite; what it is, where it has been used and why it is important.

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Enterprise Risk Management 2012 (NYC, October 17-18, www.erm-usa.com) is North America's premier ERM Congress addressing the critical challenges being faced by FIs, energy utilities and corporations of all sizes.

If you haven't registered your place yet, here are 10 reasons not to miss this years Congress:

1. Understand how CROs from Santander, Credit Suisse and RBS are taking an integrated approach to risk management
2. Hear the Chief Risk Policy Officer at PNC and Deputy Comptroller and Co-Chair of the

Interview with Houman B. Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School

Houman B. Shadab is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation whose research focuses on hedge funds, derivatives, and securitization. Professor Shadab is a director of the Center on Financial Services Law and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions.

marcus evans had the privilege to

Melton L. Spivak, a speaker at the marcus evans Tax Officers Summit XIV 2012, stresses the importance of having an international network of contacts to help construct a global tax strategy.

Interview with: Melton L. Spivak, Vice President of Property Tax, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Tax Officers must continuously build an education around the changes in tax laws and procedures, says Melton L. Spivak, Vice President of Property Tax, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Developing a matrix system that is relative to the

Just three years ago the G20 leaders agreed upon a common course to regulate the financial markets, with focus on standardising OTC derivatives. In that time regulators have created the largest reform packages since the dawn of modern financial history including Dodd-Frank and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

But are market participants prepared to cope with the consequences of these regulatory behemoths? With regards to OTC derivatives, under the new rules, these are suppose

Michael Hainkel, a speaker at the marcus evans Tax Officers Summit XIV 2012, focuses on how information can be shared within organizations to increase tax savings and the role of Tax Officers as advisors.

Interview with: Michael Hainkel, Senior Vice President, Tax, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation    

Las Vegas, NV, August 29, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tax Officers must be conscious of future legislation that may be enacted, so that they can help influe

The past 24 months have seen a number of man-made and natural disasters bring risk management demands to the forefront of executives and board directors. Whether these have been natural disasters, such as the Japanese Tsunami or man-made disasters, such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, fat-tail disasters have created a renewed interest in enterprise risk management (ERM) practices.

Although demand for these practices and the discussion level for their use is high inside the C-suite of many corpor

modeFinance has now released on the Apple Store and Android Play the new version of "s-peek credit rating & financial report" (www.s-peek.com), the first mobile application that allows you, for free, to get the credit rating, commercial credit, together with financial information of more than 20 million European companies.

This new version features two major improvements: the search of the company and automatically monitoring the presence of new ratings of the companies that attracts your interes

According to an article in PV-Magazine (link) which is a monthly trade publication launched for the international photovoltaics (PV) community; Wafer Norway AS has to file for bankruptcy after the parent company REC ASA stated that it will not provide the necessary funding for a solvent wind-up of operations. In order to avoid filing for bankruptcy, REC ASA, owning 100 percent of the shares, would have to supply the necessary funding. However, it is stated that it did not decide to follow this p

As a risk workshop facilitator I get to assist many organisations assess risk to their key organisational objectives.  Interestingly the outcomes are not always about risk treatments, often they are about reviewing risk appetite.

Situation One:

The results of the risk workshop show that three of five key strategic objectives have Extreme risk ratings.  This may be due to one of two scenarios:  Either you are an organisation that is on the edge of the cliff OR your risk criteria are simply wrong. 

German boutique compact sports coupes maker filed for insolvency on Monday morning in a Dresden court (link).  Originally founded in 1959 and after a break, the company restarted its operations in 2006. The company has been quite famous in European auto shows and according to German press sources it has been suffering from lack of sales lately and it is stated that Melkus is out of money and seeking a fresh start. 
According to ASKMORE (link); the financial pain was on the agenda for the period 2

For those interested in reviewing the linkages between organisational performance (or 'fitness'), the use of OD and diagnostic risk consulting approaches and the implementation of ISO 31000, this webinar will discuss those topics and provide some additional information regarding steps for implementation.

The webinar is scheduled for 3 pm Los Angeles (PDT) / 5 pm Chicago (CDT) on 23 August 2012.

There are still a few places available, so register now using this link:

http://www.brighttalk.com/cha

The Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III are going to change the way banks raise, allocate and manage capital. Banks need to prepare for these changes now and develop effective strategies for achieving capital optimization and sustainable return on equity. The GFMI, a marcus evans, Capital Adequacy and Strategy Conference, September 12-14, 2012 in New York, NY, will help banks to understand what the legislation means for capital adequacy, as well as what they need to do to achieve the optimum level of c

Perhaps ten years ago, reporting risk profiles or organisational threats was a challenging thing to do for many risk analysts on the job and while the majority of risk reports were fundamentally ordinary, it became apparent quite quickly that a simple list of hazards was never going to cut it.

In this blog we look at an emerging era of risk reporting.

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In the world of risk, analysts and managers alike try to reduce the likelihood of an event occurring by inserting controls between the event's driving factors and its outcome.

Our partners at marcus evans have conducted an interview with Anika Khan, Economist at Wells Fargo Securities, recently and kindly gave us a preferential permission to publish it on our website.