4364 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
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
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Having attended the FATCA Forum event in London two weeks ago, one word kept cropping up time and time again in relation to FATCA – not from vendors (surprisingly enough) but from compliance and tax experts from leading financial institutions. And that word was… opportunity. An unusual choice of word to associate with a piece of regulation that is...
10 December 2012 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
I recently had the pleasure of being joined by a panel of clearing and settlement experts to discuss the impending move to a T+2 settlement cycle in Europe, as proposed in the European Commission’s regulation for central security depositories and for improving settlement efficiency (CSDR). After years of discussion around the shortening of set...
07 December 2012 /regulation
In this article, we want to illustrate the importance of augmenting automated decisioning and business intelligence systems with human intelligence. Here’s a simple logic puzzle for starters. Please look at the picture at the page bottom. There are four cards lying on a table in the way pictured below. Identify which card(s) you would flip in order...
07 December 2012 /regulation /retail Financial Risk Management
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