A big boost for business from pricing local risks: international standards for assessing country risk

RMA Journal, The, May, 2003 by George J. Vojta, Carl F. Adams

[C] 2003 by RMA. George Vojta is senior director of the Financial Services Forum, an association focusing on regulatory, legislative, and public policy issues related to the global financial system. He is a former vice chairman of Bankers Trust and former executive vice president for strategic planning at Citicorp.

He is a director of Private Export Funding Corporation; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the New York State Banking Board; and chairman of the board of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Carl Adams is president of the Board of Governors for the New York City Chapter of RMA--The Risk Management Association. He also is co-chairman of the Credit & Risk Steering Committee of The Bond Market Association. He currently serves as a senior director for the NY-based Capital Markets Credit Analysts Society and is a senior consultant to both public and private institutions on issues of country analysis, risk management, and government relations .