The Bank Risk Playbook: practical risk management for banks

Banks rarely get into trouble for a lack of rules. Problems start when risks have no owner, concentrations grow unnoticed and warning signs are not escalated in time. The Bank Risk Playbook is written for the people who have to prevent that.

Every material risk, from credit, market and liquidity to operational, compliance, climate and AI risk, is covered with the same structure: governance, policies, measurement, monitoring and control.

What is inside

15 chapters, 56 figures and 150 review questions to train a risk team, plus free Excel calculators to test the numbers. A 12-month roadmap shows how to build a credible risk framework, as useful to a fintech applying for a licence as to an established bank.

About the author

Vladimir Davchev has more than twenty years of hands-on experience in bank risk management in North Macedonia. He leads the Certified Risk Management programme at the Academy for Banking and IT in Skopje and is Deputy Chair of the Risk Committee of the Macedonian Banking Association.