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9 - Conduct Risk and Business Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2024

Chander Velu
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University of Cambridge
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What are the principles of designing business models to ensure fair customer and market outcomes? This chapter explores how the global financial crisis highlighted the need to design business models in financial institutions that are profitable while ensuring fair customer outcomes and the integrity of markets. It introduces the concept of conduct risk and its relevance for sectors more generally beyond financial services. The principles of designing business models to manage conduct risk, and the implications, are discussed.

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Business Model Innovation
A Blueprint for Strategic Change
, pp. 229 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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