January 8, 2009
        
Financial Stability through Sound Risk Management
            The extraordinary turmoil of  2007 and 2008 has brought to the fore many issues and challenges, most of which  will be with us for some time as we deal with what has become the deepest  financial crisis since the 1930s. Policy-makers around the world have taken bold  and timely steps to deal with the financial instability and economic crisis, but  it will take time for confidence to be restored and for markets to become fully  functional again.