In December, I attended the Amsterdam RiskMinds Conference, which highlighted current priorities of Chief Risk Officers [CROs] and risk professionals. Having reflected over Christmas sherry and Mariah Carey New Year PR disasters, I consider 7 key CRO and risk priorities. The modern Chief Risk Officer was beautifully characterized by Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Geoffrey Greener, a CRO who has travelled from the "dark side" of hedge fund proprietary trading to the comparative "light" of risk management. He services his "much simpler" organization, by being his customer's Chief Risk Officer or "Chief Worrier". An EMEA CRO, pointing to her Financial Conduct Authority personal liability, reiterated the point: "I worry about that 3am call, with a London Whale thing."