4421 Results from /regulation
Advait Rege Principal - Business Consulting at Infosys Limited
It is widely expected that technology spending in 2013-14 is going to be centered on Regulatory mandates. It is also expected that this will lead to the backtracking of several change programs that Banks / FIs proposed to undertake to increase STP, reduce inefficiencies in process, enable resiliency and stability of systems and improving scalabili...
04 December 2012 /regulation
Retired Member
By Tom Riesack and Ute Herzog In the ‘new normal’ of highly regulated financial markets, corporate treasurers are feeling the reverberations in their daily activities. Corporates are using swaps to hedge their commercial risks, stemming from currency, interest and commodity price exposure. To mitigate such risks treasurers have a whole arsenal of ...
Just when I was hoping to start thinking about the Christmas holidays (beginning with the first of the season’s parties this week) we’ve seen a bunch of announcements on the European consolidated tape, including those from FPL and The COBA Project. Everyone acknowledges that the lack of an agreed tape of record makes any concept of true best exec...
29 November 2012 /regulation
Is real time regulatory reporting a goal too farfetched? Aside of the theoretical premise that the earlier you know, the earlier you can prevent, is there a solid practical base to the argument. Would the function of the regulator be better served not by such focus on transaction level detail but by principles based governance? Below, I discuss th...
23 November 2012 /regulation
On the train this morning, I was browsing through London’s Metro newspaper to see who the latest 'victims' in The X Factor, Strictly, I’m a Celebrity etc, were (incidentally, it’s probably the people that actually watch these programs, but that’s another story). I was a bit shocked, therefore, to come across a double page spread examining dark poo...
22 November 2012 /regulation
Banks need intelligent IT to increase workforce IQ In another Finextra blog post this month, it was highlighted that as banks move towards agile forms of managing their business, they are dismissing the importance of traditional testing, which can support the overall execution of achieving business goals. Whilst this is a good point to surface...
22 November 2012 /security /regulation
Liquidity has moved further and further up banking executives’ agendas thanks to the growing industry focus as well as regulatory demands for more liquidity to be available in banks. Following the 2008 crash, liquidity has established itself as a risk concern for banks like never before – the failure of Northern Rock was essentially one of liquidi...
22 November 2012 /payments /regulation
Shadow banking may sound like the demon brainchild of Dr. Evil and Gordon Gekko, but about half of the banking system’s assets are in this mostly unregulated realm of finance. And global regulators at the Financial Stability Board recently looked at taming that realm. Liquidity buffers, leverage limits and standards on how to make calculations wer...
21 November 2012 /regulation
Patricia Hines Head of Corporate Banking at Celent
As many others in the Finextra Community did, I recently attended the Sibos 2012 annual conference in Osaka, Japan. Not surprisingly, the three main topic areas for Sibos 2012 were: Global shifts of economic power Regulation: Tangled in red tape? Technology: Keeping pace in an interconnected world Global shifts of economic power As we’ve seen in...
21 November 2012 /regulation Transaction Banking
Below we examine most common mistakes in scorecard development, and explain how to use them for most precise borrower rating and segmentation. Scorecards provide a set of weights assigned to characteristics that demonstrate customer’s credit worthiness. With scorecards, customers are evaluated and rated according to their potential probability. You...
19 November 2012 /regulation /retail Financial Risk Management
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