RMA - The Risk Management Association

Founded in 1914, RMA – The Risk Management Association is a member driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principals in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit, market and operational risk.

With headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the RMA has about 3,000 institutional members. These include banks of all sizes as well as non-banking institutions which are represented by 16,000 professionals across the US and Canada and numerous foreign cities including Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and London.

RMA has taken a leadership role in providing industry input to regulators as the Basel II Capital Accord has been reformed. Our strong relationship with members and regulators helps us to develop new risk management techniques and innovative products. RMA has undertaken a wide variety of ground-breaking industry studies on different aspects of enterprise-wide, credit, market and operational risk management issues. In addition the RMA has long experience in providing data exchange services to support different aspects of credit risk management.

For more information, please visit www.rmahq.org.