Videos

Interview with David Bannister of Banking & Technology Magazine (December 18, 2008)

This is a video interview regarding causes and lessons of the financial crisis that broke with a vengeance in September of 2008 with the failure of Lehman Brothers and the government take-over of AIG.

Banking & Technology Magazine Interview (18-Dec-2008 : 8 min 21 sec)

SunGard Interview (January 28, 2009)

This is a SunGard interview concerning the challenges facing financial risk management and risk information systems.  It occurred in late January 2009 when the intensity of the trauma of September 2008 was very much fresh in everyone's mind.

SunGard Interview (28-Jan-2009 : 3 min 20 sec)

Lessons for Financial Risk Management from the Great Recession

This is a PowerPoint presentation delivered to the local Chapter of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) in Johannesburg South Africa in late June of 2009.  It is broken into segments to make it more accessible.

Introduction (25-Jun-2009 : 3 min 3 sec)

Lesson 1 - Statistical Entropy (25-Jun-2009 : 14 min 6 sec)

Lesson 2 - Structural Imagination (25-Jun-2009 : 0 min 42 sec)

Lesson 3 - Self-Referential Feedback (25-Jun-2009 : 7 min 35 sec)

Lesson 4 - Complexity and Dark Risk (25-Jun-2009 : 2 min 55 sec)

Lesson 5 - Alternate Means of Valuation (25-Jun-2009 : 8 min 53 sec)

Was It a Black Swan? - Dark Risk Diagnosis (25-Jun-2009 : 8 min 57 sec)