Product control

Within banking, Product Control are a team responsible for the accounting and financial reporting of a trading desk. They are responsible for the monitoring of trades in the portfolios they look after, and act as a primary control function; monitoring trading activity to ensure it is within a specified remit.[1]

In turn product controllers are responsible for ensuring traders mark their books to fair value prices.

There have been many high-profile cases of where banks have been fined for this control not working effectively, examples including the UK's financial services regulator the FSA fining Japanese Investment Bank Nomura over mis-marking of its books.[2]

Poor product control procedure were also noted in the collapse of US investment Bank Lehman Brothers.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Product Control "About product control"
  2. ↑ FT "UK fines Nomura £1.75m for mis-marking"
  3. ↑ BBC "The lessons of Lehman for other banks"



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