A report on financial risk based on a survey answered by 175 bankers, regulators and corporate users was published last month by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. They were asked to list the top-10 risks to the financial system. The results are paradoxical: high up were both credit risk (at number one) and, at four, the financial instruments banks have designed to cope with it. Racing up the league of perceived big risks was complex financial instruments, which went from tenth place last year to the fourth-biggest risk this year.
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