ABSTRACT
With the continuous merging of the financial markets all of the world, finance today is
coming into a globalization and integration era. The global exchange volume is
enlarging and we have increasing number of quantity and types of the financial
derivatives. According to Lu Zhen(1999), the exchange volume of derivatives increased
from 860 billion US dollars in 1987 to about 37 trillion Us dollars by the end of the
1990s. Thus, the whole finance system faces the challenge by the financial tools
development. As a react, all governments adjust their strategies, and try to create new
financial systems to adapt to the changing external environment
U.S.A, Japan and U.K. all choose conglomerated financial operation system as their
finance market mode. On one hand, conglomeration has own advantages such as
Economies of scale, Economies of scope, Diversification, Synergy Effects, etc. On the
other hand, conglomeration is the trend of global economics and stimulated by the
developing politics and economics. For China, the next economic giant, there is also an
unstoppable trend to abandon the redundant financial barriers and create a suitable
conglomerated financial operation system.
However, everything has both sides. Conglomeration brings not only the benefits but
also its unique risk which will notably enlarge the supervision difficulties. It is
extremely important to control its unique risks especially for those who at the beginning
of the conglomerated financial operation reforming such as China.
This dissertation aims to analyze the particular risk of the Financial Holding
Group .And it includes six parts. The first part is an introduction in order to give a top
view of the paper. The second part gives the definition of Financial Holding Group and
Financial Holding Company, introducing the advantages of FHG also.The third part
states the manifestation of the normal risks and the unique risk of Financial Holding
Company. The forth and fifth systematically part respectively states two sides of the
Financial Holding Group controlling methods. One researches the risk Financial
Holding Group controlling by its structure , control system inside and Firewall . The
other illustrates the problem of controlling risk at the government and the market view.