Second, I believe we need to do a better job identifying the most critical issues and moving quickly to remediate them. It is evident that both supervisors and bank management neglected key, long-standing risk factors that should be an area of focus in any examination. These include concentration risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk.
Hermann Remsperger: Aging: is this really a relevant issue for a central bank? Speech by Professor Hermann Remsperger, Member of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the Bundesbank 2001 spring conference, Eltville 4 May 2001. *  *  *  Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to warmly welcome you to the third Bundesbank spring conference, which introduces some innovations.