4357 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
We’ve all been there. You search your pockets, your belt clip, jacket pockets, every draw, cabinet, bag, couch, and floor, every crevice of your car and dog house. You wonder if you left it in the bar last night or over your friend’s house. You’d text all your buddies to see if they have it but, well, you can’t. It’s that horrible feeling that co...
08 January 2013 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Things can’t get much worse for UBS. Weeks after it was rocked by an FSA fine for almost £30 million for failure to detect the trading of a fraudulent banker, the Swiss bank was last week slammed with an almighty fine of almost £1 billion for manipulating Libor rates. The fine is the second largest fine ever levied on a bank and is more than three...
28 December 2012 /regulation
Banks are competitive institutions. To compete they must innovate and in IT terms that means bringing new products and rich applications to market faster than competitors. Getting those products into our hands in tried and tested form gets tougher every day as our platform choices expand to include browsers, tablets, smartphones etc. Like it or no...
19 December 2012 /regulation
The Dodd-Frank and EMIR reforms are having a major impact in the way market participants engage with one another. The mandatory central clearing of swaps is giving rise to a new market infrastructure that introduces more roles and processes, all requiring computer systems to make them work efficiently – Swaps Execution Facilities (SEFs), Organised...
17 December 2012 /regulation
“People got a bit lax,” Queen Elizabeth II said last week of the time leading up to the financial crisis. “Perhaps it was difficult to foresee.” The U.K.’s monarch also lamented that her nation’s Financial Services Authority “didn’t have the teeth” to curb risky business through 2008. And dental enhancements for global banking regulators continue ...
At a speech to the Bank of Canada this week, Mark Carney - the Bank of England Governor elect - suggested that central banks should abandon inflation targeting to boost flagging economies. He was talking to the CFA Society of Toronto but many have interpreted this as a smoke test of the strategy he will pursue when he takes up the BoE mantle next ...
13 December 2012 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Solving the too-big-to-fail problem in banking just got international. Authorities could seize a Global Systematically Important Financial Institution (GSIFI) -- and dismantle it as appropriate -- under a joint plan by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Bank of England released Monday. “For many GSIFIs, this strategy holds th...
13 December 2012 /regulation
There’s been a lot of debate around the changing role of the CIO in the press, and particularly in financial services. But we must take into consideration that, in the rapidly-evolving world of technology, you have to move with the times. There’s simply no escaping it. It’s true that some CEOs haven’t necessarily caught up with the many changes...
12 December 2012 /regulation
How Automotive Telematics Reduces Insurance Fraud? We all know that are car insurance is going up because of whiplash cases, bad driving by a certain age group and EU law but how can we push back and make it more difficult for motorists to do a fraudulent claim and secondly reduce insurance for good driving whether you are male or female? One of t...
11 December 2012 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
The FSA’s mortgage market review guidelines pose a number of issues for retail banks in the UK, and are set to have significant impact on the way mortgages are bought and sold here. Although new regulations can often add additional pressures within the industry, anything that can reduce liabilities without imposing onerous costs ought to be welcom...
11 December 2012 /regulation /retail
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