he whole background of this research which includes the background of the special time - financial crisis and the research area which is only about the British banks. Secondly, the author briefly describes what are the risk management and the importance of studying it. In it, author also states his confusions and gives the reasons why he will research this subject. Thirdly, aims and objectives list all the missions and purpose this research will achieve. Finally, the structure of the dissertation gives a brief outline of overall dissertation.
Chapter 2 – Literature Review
This chapter is very both necessary because it can help the author to discuss some other relevant research carried out in the same topic as well as some published materials which are related to the author’s research (7). In this chapter, the author will find some recent and relevant literature of the risk management to discuss and conduct. Firstly, the theory of the banking risk management will be reviewed. Secondly, the study will concern about the methods of evaluate the risk management. Lastly, important elements which can be affective to the risk management will be analyzed. In a word, the literature review part is a summary of relevant sources which serve to support and explain this research.
Chapter 3 – Methodology
This chapter states the proper research methods and methodology the author used in this research in order to achieve his objectives. The positivism research philosophy and deductive approach will be both introduced and used in this research to help to analyze the work of the risk management in British banking industry. Besides these, the sample study will be selected and use the framework and relevant data to see how the risk management can help British banks make profit in a low risk.
Chapter 4 – Research findings and Discussions
This chapter is based on the chapter 3 to use the data collected from the primary and secondary sources to form the author’s own opinion and findings.
Chapter 5 – Conclusion
This chapter will review the aims and objectives which are mentioned in chapter 1 and to check whether they are achieved and based on the existing objectives, whether there are some new possible outcomes. This final chapter also provides a brief summary of this whole research including the outlines of research findings and some limitations of the study. It will give some recommendations to future relevant research and help the potentially future study to explore.
What is Banking risk management and why need it?
Before answering the question above, it is necessary to know what the risk is. The risk is defined in ISO 31000 (8), ‘it is the effect of uncertainty on objectives’. To effective manage this potential uncertainty which can be opportunities and adverse effect, the risk management is emerged (9). And ISO 31000 (8) defines that ‘it is a serial of coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk’. Luc Henrard (10) who is the head of risk management at Brussels – based General Bank thought risk management was made of three steps: ‘(1) getting all the uncertainties upfront, (2) attributing a measure to uncertainty, and (3) optimizing’. Since the bank, as a financial institution, ‘it is a risk machine: banks usually take risks, transfer them and embed them in banking products and service’ (11). For example, banks usually provide some financing products which always have the high inte
