4458 Results from /regulation
Martin Bailey
Confidence is a powerful force. A lack of confidence can be devastating. Have enough confidence and you can achieve absolutely anything. All financial markets are underpinned by confidence. Currency relies on the fact that you have confidence in the issuing central bank. Banks rely on your belief that you can get your money back whenever you like. ...
19 June 2012 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Regulatory Updates Rima Consulting. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted to publish final rules (June 7th, 2012) on market risk capital. For Banks with a high proportion of trading assets and liabilities, the final market risk capital rule prescribes methods for calculating the market risk capital requirement (Basel 2.5) for ...
19 June 2012 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
In Part I of my Taking the Pain Out of Collection Claim Processing series, I described the importance of maximizing recoveries. In Part II I will describe how you can use collection agencies as a strategic resource to help you maximize recoveries. When you have an agency relationship that is built on close collaboration, there arise multiple op...
14 June 2012 /regulation
Maturity across the Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and Credit Valuation Adjustments (CVA) space varies greatly across the industry. Our recent survey provided some interesting insights as to whether banks are ready for CCR and CVA under Basel III, thanks to detailed responses from our clients and academic participants. We found that there are clea...
11 June 2012 /regulation
While it hasn’t yet come into force, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ('FATCA') has already stirred some very heated debate. Regulatory bodies, industry experts and financial services providers have all argued about how this new US regulation is going to have a much wider impact than perhaps expected. The US Joint Committee on Taxation has ...
08 June 2012 /regulation
As in all aspects of life, there are always at least two points of view for one same problem. If I come to think about it, there are probably as many opinions, as people are interested in Spain and the situation which we are living right now. Facts are simple. Standard of life in the country has risen from a mediocre economy to one of the importa...
07 June 2012 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Spammers send unwanted emails or texts that are both annoying and frightening. Most spam messages are useless advertisements selling stuff you don’t need or want. In 1995, 8,069 unique pieces of malware were detected. One out of 20 emails were spam, and the Melissa virus infected hundreds of thousands. By 2010, 54 million unique pieces of malware ...
01 June 2012 /security /regulation
Most credit managers or directors manage multiple collection agency relationships for their B2B collections, yet the process of managing these relationships can be highly manual and complex creating lack of efficiency and transparency for both the company and agency. For many companies I come across, the placement of claims with a collection age...
31 May 2012 /regulation
In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In Part II, I discussed which scores are best for managing existing credit lines. In Part III, I described which scores are best for new application credit risk evaluation. In Part IV, I will describe how corporat...
31 May 2012 /regulation Treasury Management
Investment management firms spend a great deal of time and money improving their operational architecture, though often stop short when it comes to a key area affecting revenue management – client billing. However, industry drivers combined with the changing needs and expectations of investors have created the need to enhance transparency into bil...
30 May 2012 /payments /regulation
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