Raroc pioneer now questions use of risk analytics

Dan Borge, who developed the first widely used enterprise-wide risk management system, risk-adjusted return on capital (or Raroc) while head of global research and corporate strategy at Bankers Trust in the 1970s and 1980s, now questions whether analytics have outpaced banks’ actual use of risk management.

Borge, speaking in Philadelphia yesterday at the sixth annual Wharton Financial Institutions Center Risk Roundtable, sponsored by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and consulting firm Mercer Oliver Wyman, said Bankers Trust embraced risk management at the top management level because the bank was performing poorly in the 1970s and its senior management needed a tool to find out why and pull it back from the brink.

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