4231 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
The American Securitization Forum’s (ASF) work to enable the tracking of individual US mortgages is just one example of the finance world’s renewed faith in fact. This in turn is paving the way for a new ‘mark-to-data’ standard. Toxic assets were originally decoupled from reality and marked-to-models because the industry assumed that there was
26 October 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
It was a sunny day in Washington DC, and I headed towards Capitol Hill to speak at the Cyber Security Ecosystem briefing organized by TechAmerica. I almost didn’t make it: the security guards caught me red handed. I tried to smuggle an apple into the building. It wasn’t a particularly big apple, mind you. It wasn’t an Apple notebook I failed to de...
26 October 2009 /security /regulation Online Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this increasingly common crime. We’ve already disc...
25 October 2009 /security /regulation
Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants
ANYONE CAN SOLVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE RIGHT METHOD. In this blog, I'm gonna reveal the secret that any good MD knows. You will be able to solve any problem efficiently and look smart about it :-) To handle a problem efficiently, we need first to describe what a problem is! Once it's clear we'll see a perfect roadmap to solve any kind of problem
23 October 2009 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinced that there would be less "Enterprise Data Management" (EDM) projects in future, given the expense, scope and scale of such projects. The...
22 October 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Where has the financial services industry gotten itself to in these past two decades or so? I have just been reading the Financial Services Authority's proposals regarding the reform of the mortgage market in the UK. What on earth has happened to basic lending principles? The FSA speaks of a changed approach to a more "intrusive and intervent...
21 October 2009 /regulation
Imagine if someone used your name and image, or the name and logo of a business you own, to create a profile on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking website. Then they start posting blogs and sending out links while pretending to be you. They may contact your acquaintances, colleagues, or clients, or they may simply show up when other...
20 October 2009 /security /regulation
See us at the the Identity Theft Protection Blog and the 2009 National Protect Your Identity Week. In order to solve this massive problem, it is absolutely essential that you – the public, corporations, associations and government agencies, all take responsibility and do what is necessary to protect yourself, your clients and your constituents. Id...
18 October 2009 /security /regulation
Does this have any relevance to western 'micro-credit' or consumer credit cards? I notice the default rate heading over 10% for credit cards. This is a quote from a World Bank site discussing microfinance. "Let’s start with the concept of a loan loss rate–the percent of my loan assets that I lose in bad loans each year. As it happens, the maxi...
17 October 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Recently Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Comcast and Earthlink announced thousands of email addresses and their passwords were phished by identity thieves and posted in an online forum. One report suggests the emails phished could be up to a million victims. Researchers parsed the hacked passwords and broke them down into categories based on their level...
16 October 2009 /security /regulation
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