Financial Risk Management

This network brings together professionals involved in the oversight and management of their company's financial risks and exposures as well as solution vendors, in order to discuss risk issues including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and commodity price risk, among others.

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Self-Service BI in Banks' Competitive Race

Decision automation systems without IT involvement are moving from the frontiers of innovative thinking to a mainstream necessity. This manifests the current “innovate or stagnate” approach in the financial services industry. This article describes potential drawbacks and shows what to keep in mind during technological changes. The most common cha...

03 September 2012 /regulation /retail

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Risk Management in Banking: Introducing Changes

Only 46% of banks are confident that their company has adequate risk management tools and processes, and that management follows risk management recommendations, as found by a recent Tower Watson survey. This article shows how to refine risk management mechanism and maintain risk management culture on a high level. Risk managers are treated as an ...

14 August 2012 /regulation /retail

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Embrace Decision Automation Technology

Decision automation systems in banks are moving from the frontiers of innovative thinking to a mainstream necessity. Executives realize that they either innovate or stagnate. Nine out of 10 banks have reconsidered their approaches to the synergy between IT and customer satisfaction, and are in the process of reconsidering (or soon will) reconsider...

17 July 2012 /regulation

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Bottom-Up Approach for Business Intelligence

We all get used to looking at Business Intelligence as a tool for strategic decisions mostly for top management. In looking at today’s business intelligence software market you will find a wide array of various types of dashboards, reporting tools, and KPI monitoring tools to support decisioning at the top levels. We have also seen a few good BI a...

03 July 2012 /regulation

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How to Outpace Big Banks in Four Steps

Big banks tend to make the best first impression. Bank’s potential clients who value more rewarding customer experience are currently more likely to choose a big bank. This article shows how to balance this trend. A joint research paper by RateWatch and IntelliShop has compared how financial institutions interact with their potential customers. A...

15 June 2012

Manish Jain industry principal at Infosys Ltd

Customer Conversion -Reputation Risk for Banks?

Central Bank guidelines mandate banks in most countries to run their new customers through Know Your Customer (KYC) checks. However, this has its limitations as the checking is restricted to address, photo identification, income verification, credit history and risk classification. Banks need to look beyond mere KYC compliance and strengthen thei...

01 May 2012 /regulation /retail

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SME Lending: East African Banks Gearing Up for Change

A recent Business Daily Africa article “SMEs pay high penalty for poor record keeping” has summarized the results of African Development Bank Research. Financial institutions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia are recognizing the vast potential of lending to small and medium enterprises. Banks are also intending to pursue additional opportunitie...

11 April 2012

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Flying on the Wings of Curiosity in the Sky of Prosperity

Flying on the Wings of Curiosity in the Sky of Prosperity… What Determines a Credit Bureau’s Success As published today by The National Association of Credit Managers, the Credit Manager’s Index is now at the highest level seen in over a year. The “New credit application” index has grown from 59.5 up to 60.4 this month. The global economy is recov...

30 March 2012 /regulation

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7 Elements That Make a Perfect Decision Management Solution

As the value of the day to day decisions grow, the importance of Decision Management Solution deployment becomes undoubted. Organizations adopting Decision Management improve business results by supporting, automating and improving operational decisions. Understanding this a lot of vendors are coming to market with their brand-new solutions. How n...

14 March 2012 /regulation

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UAE Banks Are Seeing Their Customers With New Eyes

About one out of seven UAE bank customers will recommend their bank to friends and family, reveals a Souqalmal.com survey. “Behavioral intelligence solutions assist banks in pro-actively approaching their clients, allowing to optimize product characteristics and explore up- and cross- sell possibilities. As a result, banks’ customers will be using ...

06 March 2012 /regulation