A group of leading Hong Kong academics has got together to set up a new risk management advisory service called Emerging Markets Risk Advisory. The aim of the company will be to provide local banks, securities houses and finance firms with advice on methods for accessing and using data to perform risk analysis and management.
The company was officially launched yesterday.
The firm's managing director is Dr Maurice Ewing, who most recently was a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST where he developed and taught executive finance courses in the MBA programme. He has also worked as a quantitative credit risk modeller at the Federal Reserve...