FTX and Risk: Part 2 - Risk Management and Due Diligence

Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the most senior podcast in compliance. In this episode, I conclude a 2-part series on the subjects of FTX and risk. I am joined by Gilbert Paiz and Andrew Gay, principals in the Texas Hill Country Advisors. In our previous Part 1, we considered risk and risk management through the lens of US domiciled financial institutions and how their risk management protocols help to not only assess risk, but manage throughout the life cycle of a banking-customer relationship. In this Part 2, we consider individual risk in investing and what type of background information, questions and due diligence individual should engage in and how thes questions and background investigations apply equally to larger investments made by sophisticated investors, hedge funds  and institutional investors; who should have made them before investing in FTX but they all failed to do so.   Some of the highlights include:  ·      What due diligence should an individual perform? ·      What should an individual look for in financial statement? ·      Why is the physical location of businesses and where it might be incorporated such an important piece of information? ·      What are backstops, guarantees or other mechanisms to retrieve investments? ·      What Due Diligence mistakes did you see in FTX? ·      What are related party transactions and why are they problematic? ·      Why are audited financials critical?  Resources Texas Hill Country Advisors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices