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Gaurav Handa Director Marketing at Oracle Financial Services
Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo recently defended the importance of stress tests and regular capital review exercises in ensuring the safety and soundness of the U.S. financial system. In a speech delivered to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago last week, Tarullo said that higher capital standards alone were not enough to do the trick, an...
24 April 2012 /regulation
The financial services industry stands on the threshold of a new era for liquidity risk. As seen in recent weeks, the reality of the new financial landscape – currently fueled by lingering debt issues in Europe and this month’s announcement that four “too big to fail” banks had failed the latest round of stress tests – has warranted a laser-like ...
22 March 2012 /regulation
Efforts to rebuild and recapitalize the industry post the financial crisis notwithstanding, banks are looking at where growth will come from and how to respond to changing customer needs. Several industry reports have highlighted the changing needs and profile of the end consumer, both within the advanced economies as well as in comparison to devel...
07 November 2011
As we start off the week at SIBOS, big data is a big focus. This year, a deep dive into big data is taken during an Innotribe session at the conference, part of a larger initiative to enable collaboration in financial services. As such, it seems fitting to share our thoughts on the subject here. Systemic risk was at the heart of the financial cr...
20 September 2011 /regulation
The road to Basel III compliance may be getting significantly shorter for some banks. Just last week, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority announced a proposal that would require Australian banks to adopt the minimum capital requirement ratio by 2013, two years ahead of the timetable under Basel III’s phase-in agreement, and would imple...
15 September 2011
Financial institutions in Europe and North America will be eager to turn the page on August. Far from the anticipated doldrums of summer, we witnessed a return to stomach-churning market volatility, fueled in part by growing concerns about sovereign solvency and banks’ exposure to sovereign debt. The return to volatility, coming on the heels of t...
02 September 2011 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
It has been said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” and as recent events have demonstrated, many European banks held too little loss-absorbing capital to allow for the risks being run not only in extreme adverse conditions, but in some of the more vanilla activities, as well. The Irish mortgage market is a prime examp...
05 August 2011 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
After much discussion and soul-searching – the largest banks in the EU have finally published their stress test results to the European Banking Authority which, in turn, published them to the wider market. When the results were tallied, eight banks failed, and 16 were in the “danger zone” – clearly a mixed bag. It was not, as such, a coincidence t...
15 July 2011 /regulation Financial Risk Management
As the industry prepares to implement Basel III's liquidity risk provisions, it's important to begin the journey with a solid understanding of the minimum standards required by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), industry best practices, and the distance between them. BIS requirements for the liquidity coverage ratio ("LCR") an...
01 July 2011
Fed seeks annual U.S. bank stress tests. In his recent address at the 47th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, Chairman Bernanke spoke of initiatives on both sides of the pond to implement a macroprudential approach to financial services supervision and regulation. The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and
20 May 2011 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
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