1270 Results from 2013
Retired Member
As football/soccer pundits will be well aware, “Tiki-Taka” is a style of play popularized by both FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Characterized by speed, accuracy and control, it’s already proved a winning formula for footballers. But could a Tiki-Taka approach also help the risk managers of tomorrow achieve their goals? They may be op...
28 November 2013 /regulation
The Prudential Regulatory Authority has also issued its consultation on regulated fees and levies. This includes continuing the Special Project Fee in connection with the work required to implement Solvency II. Comments are due by 30 December 2013. Related Link: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/pra/Pages/publications/feesleviesproposals.aspx
28 November 2013 Financial Services Regulation
Amit Agrawal NA at in transit
One of the advantage of the financial crisis is that banking regulators focus more on liquidity then capital. Hence Basel Committee's focussed in Basel III to strengthen global capital and liquidity regulations with the goal of promoting a more resilient banking sector. It gives the birth of introducing new monitoring tools for liquidity risk. The...
28 November 2013 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Open innovation, the process of encouraging ideation across all stakeholders to drive enterprise innovation, is gaining traction in a diverse range of business applications - from automotive design to drug discovery. Two banks that are harnessing the power of Open Innovation to drive organization change were featured in the most recent edition of ...
28 November 2013
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
It's been stop-start, but there are signs of growth. Reading Simon Strong's Finextra blog post about growing overheads as P2P lenders mature and become more regulated, and Dan Barnes' post about the growing involvement of traditional banks, got me thinking about the development of the P2P lending sector in Australia. There has been no shortage of...
27 November 2013 /regulation /retail Future Finance
There was a collective sigh of relief in Brussels from policymakers earlier this month as a final version of Solvency II was agreed upon following lengthy negotiations spanning years. However, it was tempered with a note of anxiety from market participants facing up to the reality of the regulatory regime. Now that the European Insurance and Occup...
27 November 2013
Henner Brüner Managing Principal at Capco
It is still probably too early to derive meaningful conclusions from the impact of Swap Execution Facilities (SEF) on trading behavior. However, European regulators and counterparties can learn from the US experience as they implement the European equivalent of SEF – Organized Trading Facilities (OTF) as part of the Markets in Financial Instrument...
26 November 2013 /regulation
CMSpi is concerned that a decision on the introduction of polymer banknotes in the United Kingdom might be made without a suitable understanding of the costs and benefits of the change. We would like to see a framework which analyses and assesses these before deciding whether or not the fixed costs and operational challenges associated with polymer...
26 November 2013 /payments /regulation
Will peer-to-peer lending change the personal loans market beyond recognition? Or will increasing regulation and overheads erode its differentiators? Traditional savings products are not attractive at the moment, with typical interest rates for one-year cash ISAs at less than 2%. At the same time, peer-to-peer lenders such as RateSetter and Zopa s...
26 November 2013 /retail
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) notifications and exemptions webpage to state that submissions for the intragroup exemption from the clearing obligation are now being accepted for transactions between two entities in the same group which are both established in the UK. All subm...
26 November 2013 Financial Services Regulation
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