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The Role of a CFO in Financial Risk Management

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Financial risk management is about identifying, evaluating, and addressing financial threats that could harm a company’s assets. This involves monitoring market risks, managing credit exposures, maintaining adequate liquidity, and implementing robust internal controls to prevent financial losses and ensure financial stability.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages. We didn’t really have to model credit risk because that was, that risk was taken by the agencies. But in these private labels, you had the, the market was taking the credit risk.