Take my word for it as a former whistleblower: the prospect of an improbable, distant financial reward rarely will cause an individual to risk almost certain and immediate unemployment, intense hostility and potential lifetime career damage.

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"Systemic risk" (the risk that the failure of one financial institution could cause other interconnected institutions to fail and harm the economy as a whole).

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The goal of the legislation is to limit banker incentives to take risk, since this was allegedly a major cause of the recent financial crisis.

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The judge ruled that only the jury could determine if AEG Live should have been aware that the strong financial pressure Dr. Murray was under was enough to cause him to potentially put Michael at risk of harm by over-medicating him.

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Microfinance Institutions are currently holding a lot of financial resources in both credit and savings and if not properly managed and controlled, they can be cause a risk to the financial sector.

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