NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 14, 2008
Responding in part to the guidance provided by the President’s
Working Group on Financial Markets, E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing
Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Douglas Flint, Group Finance
Director, HSBC Holdings Plc, today announced the formation of CRMPGIII
which will be Co-Chaired by Messers Corrigan and Flint. The
organizational meeting of the Policy Group was held on April 8, 2008.
In the setting of the current financial market crisis and building in
part on the 2005 work of CRMPGII, the Policy Group will focus its
analysis primarily on four major areas of inquiry, as follows:
First; to identify, in detail,
opportunities for further improvements in risk management practices and
make concrete recommendations to strengthen risk management activities
with emphasis on such areas as the governance and controls over risk
appetite, counterparty risk, market risk, and all aspects of liquidity
risk.
Second; to revisit, in detail, the
risks associated with complex financial instruments using recent
experience to frame recommendations to enhance the understanding and
management of the manner in which the leverage and embedded leverage
often associated with such instruments tends to amplify risk. The
analysis will also examine opportunities to improve the effectiveness of
distribution, marketing and disclosure practices associated with such
complex instruments from the perspective of both the buy and sell side.
Third; to examine, in detail, the
issue of whether current accounting rules setting forth the criterion
according to which certain classes of activities are booked on or off
the balance sheet are 1) appropriate; 2) reflect economic reality; and
3) take full account of risk and disclosure considerations, and to make
specific recommendations as to how such accounting rules and related
risk disclosure practices will be strengthened thus contributing to
improved market confidence in financial reporting.
Finally; the Policy Group will
also examine, in detail, a number of areas in which further and
substantial strengthening of industry wide financial infrastructure is
badly needed with particular emphasis on the infrastructure supporting
OTC derivatives in general and credit default swaps in particular.
The names and affiliations of the Policy Group members are listed below.
The Policy group expects to issue its Report by the end of July of this
year.
Co-Chairs
E. Gerald Corrigan
Douglas J. Flint
Managing Director
Group Finance Director
Office of the Chairman
HSBC Holdings plc
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Policy Group Members
Madelyn Antoncic
Managing Director
Global Head of Financial Market Policy Relations
Lehman Brothers
Gary Lynch
Chief Legal Officer
Morgan Stanley
Craig W. Broderick
Managing Director
Chief Credit Officer
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
J. Chandler Martin
Executive Vice President
Bank of America
Ken DeRegt
Chief Risk Officer
Morgan Stanley
Edmond Moriarty
Senior Vice President
Co-Chief Risk Officer
Merrill Lynch
Andrew Feldstein
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer
Blue Mountain Capital Management
Edward J. Rosen, Esq.
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Peter Fisher
Managing Director
Co-head of Fixed Income
BlackRock, Inc.
Zion Shohet
Treasurer
Head of Corporate Finance
Citigroup
Christian Lajoie
Head of Group Supervision Issues
BNP Paribas
Barry L Zubrow
Chief Risk Officer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Associate Members
Adam Gilbert
Managing Director
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Gavin O’Connor
Managing Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
CONTACT: Media
Goldman Sachs
Michael DuVally, 212-902-5400
Responding in part to the guidance provided by the President’s
Working Group on Financial Markets, E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing
Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Douglas Flint, Group Finance
Director, HSBC Holdings Plc, today announced the formation of CRMPGIII
which will be Co-Chaired by Messers Corrigan and Flint. The
organizational meeting of the Policy Group was held on April 8, 2008.
In the setting of the current financial market crisis and building in
part on the 2005 work of CRMPGII, the Policy Group will focus its
analysis primarily on four major areas of inquiry, as follows:
First; to identify, in detail,
opportunities for further improvements in risk management practices and
make concrete recommendations to strengthen risk management activities
with emphasis on such areas as the governance and controls over risk
appetite, counterparty risk, market risk, and all aspects of liquidity
risk.
Second; to revisit, in detail, the
risks associated with complex financial instruments using recent
experience to frame recommendations to enhance the understanding and
management of the manner in which the leverage and embedded leverage
often associated with such instruments tends to amplify risk. The
analysis will also examine opportunities to improve the effectiveness of
distribution, marketing and disclosure practices associated with such
complex instruments from the perspective of both the buy and sell side.
Third; to examine, in detail, the
issue of whether current accounting rules setting forth the criterion
according to which certain classes of activities are booked on or off
the balance sheet are 1) appropriate; 2) reflect economic reality; and
3) take full account of risk and disclosure considerations, and to make
specific recommendations as to how such accounting rules and related
risk disclosure practices will be strengthened thus contributing to
improved market confidence in financial reporting.
Finally; the Policy Group will
also examine, in detail, a number of areas in which further and
substantial strengthening of industry wide financial infrastructure is
badly needed with particular emphasis on the infrastructure supporting
OTC derivatives in general and credit default swaps in particular.
The names and affiliations of the Policy Group members are listed below.
The Policy group expects to issue its Report by the end of July of this
year.
Co-Chairs
E. Gerald Corrigan
Douglas J. Flint
Managing Director
Group Finance Director
Office of the Chairman
HSBC Holdings plc
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Policy Group Members
Madelyn Antoncic
Managing Director
Global Head of Financial Market Policy Relations
Lehman Brothers
Gary Lynch
Chief Legal Officer
Morgan Stanley
Craig W. Broderick
Managing Director
Chief Credit Officer
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
J. Chandler Martin
Executive Vice President
Bank of America
Ken DeRegt
Chief Risk Officer
Morgan Stanley
Edmond Moriarty
Senior Vice President
Co-Chief Risk Officer
Merrill Lynch
Andrew Feldstein
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer
Blue Mountain Capital Management
Edward J. Rosen, Esq.
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Peter Fisher
Managing Director
Co-head of Fixed Income
BlackRock, Inc.
Zion Shohet
Treasurer
Head of Corporate Finance
Citigroup
Christian Lajoie
Head of Group Supervision Issues
BNP Paribas
Barry L Zubrow
Chief Risk Officer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Associate Members
Adam Gilbert
Managing Director
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Gavin O’Connor
Managing Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
CONTACT: Media
Goldman Sachs
Michael DuVally, 212-902-5400