Black swan events like subprime crisis followed by liquidity crisis deserve special attention and very detailed analysis. Opinions regarding what has happened and how it is affecting current situation, what are the remedy actions and the future perspectives are critical but constructive. More ...

Mr.Trevor Williams is now Chief Economist supporting the banks trading and sales activities by speaking to its clients and those of Corporate Bank through various seminars and presentations. He writes for Lloyds TSB Publications and for other publications including Moneyfacta, City AM, the Express Newspaper, Real Finance and trade journals. He regularly appears on radio and TV to be interviews on current economic issues. He is member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, the elite group of independent leading monetary economics. He monitors economic developments and comment on UK monetary policy with focus on interest rates. After the 2^nd Annual Enterprise-Wide Risk Forum (14-15 February 2008 in Amsterdam) he gave us his view on the liquidity crisis. More ...

Ms. Estelle Jonkergouw is Senior Vice President at Rabobank Netherlands and has a PhD in Econometrics. She established the credit risk modeling unit within the Rabobank which was until recently responsible for the development as well as the validation of credit risk models. She is currently head of the Risk Model Validation and Methodology team within the Group Risk Management department at Rabobank. In this capacity she is responsible for the validation and review of all risk models developed within the Rabobank Group for Bazel II and Economic Capital purposes. Estelle gave us some insights on risk modeling after the 2^nd Annual Enterprise Wide Risk Management Forum (14-15 February 2008 in Amsterdam). More ...