4163 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Great event organised by PRMIA and IAFE last night at Goldman's London offices with a long title: "A Little Thought Goes A Long Way and Lessons for Risk Management from the Current Crisis". The event was moderated by Giovanni Bellossi of FGS Capital, and featured speaking slots by Paul Wilmott and David Rowe of Sungard. Here are my n...
03 July 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
B.J. Ostergren is a proud Virginian. She’s known as “The Virginia Watchdog,” but I like to call her “The Pit Bull of Personal Privacy.” She is relentless in her efforts to protect citizens’ privacy, and she is primarily concerned with the posting of personal information online. So in order to make this point, she finds politicians’ personal inform...
02 July 2009 /security /regulation
George Soros has waded back into the current saga concerning OTC derivatives in his article last week in the FT. The main part of the article focusses on financial markets reform, but ends with a vehement attack on derivatives, building upon some of his earlier ideas (see post) and seemingly going much further: "Finally, I have strong views ...
02 July 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
This AFP survey (click to download pdf of report) makes clear a trend many have expected, that fraud would grow as the economy continues to suffer. And, no surprise, but larger organizations are a bigger target due to their higher transaction volumes. I see and hear it anecdotally every day in conversations with partners, customers and prospec...
02 July 2009 /payments /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
One of my former collegues once started a panel discussion on buy side technology by saying "Technology means nothing unless it has a business use." He had a very valid point. The trendiest, up to the minute technology is all fine and dandy, but if you can't trade, invest, process with it--who cares? The same can be said for data. There i...
01 July 2009 /regulation Data Management 101
Given the ongoing debate about "too big to fail" and whether we should head back to the days of the Glass-Steagal Act, then here is a slightly different slant on the problem of systematic risk put forward in an article by Avinash D. Persaud. In the article, Avinash makes the very good point that increasing capital requirements across th...
30 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The Bank for International Settlements thinks that financial instruments should be classified like medicinal drugs to protect investors and prevent firms from excessive over-indulgence in potentially lethal or toxic products. "The safest securities would, like non-prescription medicines, be available for purchase by everyone," says the ba...
29 June 2009 /regulation Whatever...
It has just been announced that an IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough makes possible the deep and unlimited analysis of encrypted information – data that has been intentionally scrambled -- without sacrificing con
25 June 2009 /regulation
Most people are familiar with the TJX data breach, in which 45 million credit card numbers were stolen. TJX recently agreed to pay $9.75 million to 41 states to settle an investigation of the massive data breach. According to some reports, TJX has spent up to $256 million attempting to fix the problem that led to the breach. It’s been said repeat...
25 June 2009 /security /regulation
Citi's recent announcement of a potential deal to sell off IT assets confirms that no matter what the century or circumstance, most things never change. I had high hopes that Citi would emerge from their current troubles as a leaner and stealthier competitor in the global market, but that hope is diminishing in light of their "death by a thou...
24 June 2009 /regulation /retail
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