8004 Premium Exam Questions

Where there are excess rewards, there must be risks

The Know Your Customer rule

Strategies that are not possible to explain to third parties should not be employed by the risk averse

Fractured organisational structure and poor risk oversight mechanism make it easy for powerful individuals to hide risk in the gaps

Bob Citron engaged in risky strategies to benefit personally

Bob Citron tried to "ride the yield curve"

Bob Citron heavily leveraged his positions using repos

Citron's losses were eventually exposed by massive margin calls

Large customer withdrawals despite the UK regulator and the UK Treasury giving assurances that the bank was solvent

Doubts arising about the viability of the business model which necessitated Bank of England intervention

A general lack of confidence in mortgage backed securities associated in large part with developments in the US sub-prime mortgage market, and doubts emerging about the viability of the Northern Rock business model

A depositor run on the bank, following doubts about the viability of the Northern Rock business model

Parliamentarian

Secretary

Vice Chair

Chair only