4358 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement When the business environment is changing very quickly, or when we are under pressure, one of the easiest mistakes to make is that of jumping to a conclusion based on “Judgement” – and then looking for the evidence to justify the decisions made. Anybody who has read a histor...
24 October 2011 /regulation Treasury Technology
With Visa’s recently announced U.S. EMV initiative, massive infrastructure changes loom on the horizon for card acquirers. To ready themselves for this change, acquirers can think about breaking down the implementation into three buckets: device enhancements, enhancements to acquiring systems and customer service. While daunting, the complexity o...
19 October 2011 /regulation
Roy McPherson
On the 17th Oct the BBC ran a programe called 'RBS; Inside the bank that ran out of money'. I downloaded the prog from the BBC I player and watched a very good and insightful documentary on a classic case of the Emperors New Clothes. The documentary detailed the rise and fall of the bank, following its growth via purchases of Nat West, ABN and Ci...
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
The last Post-Trade Forum debate was all about the pros and cons of outsourcing v internalisation. A cross industry panel of outsourcing experts debated with an audience of equal experts and thrashed the topic to arrive at some really interesting conclusions and observations. Not least was operational memory loss. This knowledge can be expensive t...
19 October 2011 /regulation Post-Trade Forum
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Digital assets include: entertainment files (e.g. music downloads), personal memories (e.g. photographs), personal communications (e.g. emails), personal records (e.g. health, financial, insurance), and career information (e.g. resumes, portfolios, cover letters, contacts), as well as any creative projects or hobbies involving digital files. If yo...
13 October 2011 /security /regulation
Basel III, CRDIV, European Union Crisis: The "malediction" of the new banking regulations. In October 2010 at the Seoul Summit, the G20 Leaders committed to the adoption and full implementation of the Basel Committee’s new bank capital and liquidity framework within the recommended time frame. They also approved the Financial Stability Bo...
13 October 2011 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Big banks lost more ground this week when a report by international regulators found that higher capital requirements would not drastically impair growth. The Bank for International Settlements in Basel stated Monday that a one percentage point surcharge increase would slow annual growth by less than 0.01 percentage points over eight years. In shor...
11 October 2011 /regulation
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
So, now we all know the dirty little secret at the heart of the latest alleged 'rogue trader' scandal at UBS. Risk management was ignored. Well, knock me down with a slide ruler. Now, I wrote a rather snarky blog when this scandal broke asking whether the lights were even turned on in the UBS trading floor, never mind the VaR calculations, risk li...
06 October 2011 /regulation Financial Risk Management
When we were at Sibos we enjoyed a team dinner in a local restaurant. As the topics of the day were mulled over somewhere up popped a contentious question "If the Greeks default, and Greece disengages from EUR and reverts to the GDR, would back office systems cope"? As the discussion raged back and forth, buoyed by the odd jar or two, i...
05 October 2011 /regulation /sibos SWIFT Matters
Motivated by years of recession or a few terrifying minutes of market depression, last week was exciting for remedial action by regulatory authorities. Large financial institutions are looking at higher capital reserves, and traders are more likely than ever to see older circuit breaker rules give way to new ones. Cash or Surcharge? The world’s to...
04 October 2011 /regulation
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