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Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo recently defended the importance of stress tests and regular capital review exercises in ensuring the safety and soundness of the U.S. financial system. In a sp...
The financial services industry stands on the threshold of a new era for liquidity risk. As seen in recent weeks, the reality of the new financial landscape – currently fueled by lingering debt issue...
Efforts to rebuild and recapitalize the industry post the financial crisis notwithstanding, banks are looking at where growth will come from and how to respond to changing customer needs. Several indu...
As we start off the week at SIBOS, big data is a big focus. This year, a deep dive into big data is taken during an Innotribe session at the conference, part of a larger initiative to enable collabora...
The road to Basel III compliance may be getting significantly shorter for some banks. Just last week, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority announced a proposal that would require Australian...
Financial institutions in Europe and North America will be eager to turn the page on August. Far from the anticipated doldrums of summer, we witnessed a return to stomach-churning market volatility, ...
It has been said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” and as recent events have demonstrated, many European banks held too little loss-absorbing capital to allow for the ri...
After much discussion and soul-searching – the largest banks in the EU have finally published their stress test results to the European Banking Authority which, in turn, published them to the wider ma...
As the industry prepares to implement Basel III's liquidity risk provisions, it's important to begin the journey with a solid understanding of the minimum standards required by the Bank for Internatio...
Fed seeks annual U.S. bank stress tests. In his recent address at the 47th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, Chairman Bernanke spoke of initiatives on both sides of the
With black swan events on the rise, how are financial institutions responding? Stress tests conducted by regulators on both sides of the pond have now moved from a onetime exercise to de rigueur eve