Importance Of Ethics In Risk Management

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It was said that:"Good risk management requires good ethics; and good ethics require good risk management." Do you know the reason that good risk management and good ethics should work together? The report will begin with the definitions of these two fields. Firstly, Risk management is a process to make decisions which plan to minimize the business losses on an organization, and reduce the number or size of these losses. For ethics, it seems like a standard aiming to comply with certain rules or to achieve certain results in particular types of situations. Obviously, the relationship of them seems like two sides in one coin. Because an organization wants to manage its risks well, everyone who represents that organization must practice good ethics.

With China planning to open up gradually the banking sector and the constant introduction of new businesses, commercial banks are facing more pressure on the risk management. Operational risk is the inherent risk of commercial banks, and it cannot be avoided completely. However it was investigated that the operational risk was resulting from the credit risk mostly, and it referred to the Ethics in the risk management. There are same like the line graph as following:

So Ethics plays an important role in risk management field we can see the graph above, which is the basis of the link between operational risk and credit risk.

2. Some events related with them
There were some cases showing the effect of credit risk due to operational risk, and many banks suffered huge losses. Even worse, some banks went bankrupt because of this. In other countries, for example, Bankers Trust had been investigated by the Procter & Gamble in 1994 for misleading and cheating in derivatives trading, which ...

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...mulate the corresponding calibration method according to the characteristics of China. In addition, we can build up application program for risk regulatory on banks’ credit, and help financial institutions (and even individuals) to make reasonable decision. Therefore, they could effectively do decision-making and risk management. We should concern on the ethics and do some researches as following:
(1) How to help the commercial banks in China to understand their risk management better;
(2) How to build up a risk management framework to banks in China;
(3) How to set up some warning levels on critical risk.

These will be situations where neither the good or bad ethics nor the good or bad risk management are so black and white, and where together we can reason through how best to let good ethics and good risk management work together for the ultimate benefit of all.

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