medium · FRM Part 1 Foundations of Risk Management

A bank's internal audit department (third line) finds that the CRO and the CEO have a joint incentive compensation plan based on quarterly trading profits.

Why does this represent a critical governance weakness?

  1. It ignores the diversify-away property of idiosyncratic risk
  2. It compromises the CRO's independence to say no
  3. It creates a negative convexity in the firm's capital structure
  4. It violates the law of one price in equilibrium

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