Consider standard market risk management practices for financial institutions, such as VAR:

a. Why was the risk management not sufficient to prevent such an extraordinary loss?

b. Which risk metric do you consider most appropriate? Should liquidity of an asset be considered as well?

c. Consider risk-weighted assets: should they include net exposure or gross exposure? Should derivatives of all types be regarded as the same type of RWA?

Is it appropriate to employ derivatives in a cash management function?