Responsibilities must be clearly assigned to individual persons and/or com- mittees. In addition, the relevant units must be functionally independent to avoid potential confl icts of interests. 20 Senior management should ensure that adequate interest rate risk management is in place for measuring, monitoring and controlling interest rate risks, and that all the relevant business units of the bank have been taken on board. Employees entrusted with interest rate risk management duties need to be aware of all types of interest rate risks across the bank, and they need to possess the necessary degree of indepen- dence vis-à-vis individuals who undertake risk positions. Senior.
