Managing Reputational Risk in a Major European Banking Group

Davide Bazzarello

A broad geographical presence was a major asset for UniCredit Group, as it could increase the diversification of risk and revenue. At the same time, managing reputational risk in a consistent way across the world posed many challenges and required a clear governance structure, an even stronger involvement of the senior management, clear group policies and guidelines as well as dedicated committees and defined information flows between different company functions on any type of decision taken with respect to reputational risk.

THE IMPULSE FOR REPUTATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

After the 2008 financial crisis, many market scandals were brought to light and tainted the reputation of all banks. The misuse and the aggressive selling of structured products, the subprime bubble in the USA, the intensive usage of derivatives, Libor-rigging investigations and top management compensation all put banks under huge pressure and scrutiny. In fact it was quite shocking for the public to realise that millionaire bonuses were paid out while the real economy was so gloomy, unemployment was surging, economic support from many banks was reduced as loan applications were rejected, and in some cases

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