The Basel paper on interest rate risk divides the responsibilities for interest rate risk management and oversight among the supreme management body and senior management. In the context of Austrian corporate law, the senior management would be the directors of a credit institution authorized to manage and legally represent it under Article 2 No 1 of the Austrian Banking Act. The supreme management body of Austrian corporations would be the supervisory board, whose core function is to oversee the directors in order to ensure that the latter are fulfi lling their responsibilities. In Austrian companies, senior management is.
