4194 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Separating the alpha from the beta - savvy investors know they need to separate the alpha, or investment gains made from decisions made by manager, from the beta, or returns attributable to the market. Traditionally this has meant seeing how individual funds or managers do compared with an index or other baseline. But these simple measurements hav...
26 March 2013 /regulation
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Attending a data management event last week in London, it suddenly dawned on me that banks are in real danger of missing regulatory deadlines for implementation of compliance initiatives to comply with FATCA, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID II. Not surprising given the convergence of implementation dates and deadlines that are taking place and the limi...
26 March 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
It’s all about future-proofing the bank’s risk and compliance. The recent credit crisis has underscored the importance of proactive risk mitigation for banks. Banks need to first effectively and efficiently identify the potential risks associated with each and every banking process and then measure the same. Every process, operation and service pe...
25 March 2013 /regulation /retail
As I was preparing to leave for a Financials conference on Monday of this week, I was welcomed by the transition into Spring. And in Atlanta, this means thunderstorms and flight delays. There is always a strange moment in the south that precedes most any thunderstorm -- a quiet calm. And then all of a sudden, the wind picks up and the rain pours....
21 March 2013 /regulation Electronic invoicing
Part 2 - A new approach is needed In the first part of my series of blog posts, I have analysed how Master Data Management can help financial institutions to extract the information hidden as “unstructured data” in their legal agreements. In this part I will talk about how a new approach to enterprise content management (ECM) supports Master Data ...
20 March 2013 /security /regulation XBRL Discussion Group
Part 1 – From 'war room' to Master Data Management I want to start my blog with a series of posts that analyse how modern enterprise content management systems can help the Financial Service Industry to stay on top of its information 'War room' The 2008 credit crisis highlighted the importance of global financial institutions being able to manage ...
Despite initial fears over cloud computing, the financial sector is warming to the idea of migrating applications from a physical environment to a virtual one. It’s no surprise to see that the popularity of cloud is rising amongst the industry, especially with the likes of Barclays announcing that they have cut IT expenses by 90% as a result of cl...
19 March 2013 /regulation
An outlook of the shadow banking industry By Jennifer Liu and Brian Lum Shying away from the spotlight briefly, shadow banking has come back to the top of regulators’ agenda. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year, Mark Carney, chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), reminded the audience that central bankers will finall...
A brief history of shadow banking By Jennifer Liu and Brian Lum Shadow banking has been on Mark Carney’s mind for a while. Since his appointment as chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in November 2011, the governor of Bank of Canada was given a number of tasks by the leaders of the Group of 20 large economies to spearhead global banking r...
13 March 2013 /regulation
With ESMA’s (European Securities and Markets Authority) regulatory technical standards (RTS) codifying the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) into an applicable set of rules entering into force on 15 March 2013, the implementation timeline for EMIR has now become much clearer. The CCP registration process Under EMIR CCPs apply for a...
12 March 2013 /regulation
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