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The global credit crisis exposed the weaknesses inherent in the risk management and IT infrastructures employed by banks. Learn how these weaknesses can be overcome to increase competitiveness and reduce...
As computational demands on banks have increased, some have turned to powerful graphics processing units, but these were initially applied at the transaction pricing level. Now, they are starting to cover...
In the absence of clear regulatory guidance, insurers are developing their own best practice for managing operational risk, and investing in the necessary technological tools that enable them to do so....
Banks are increasingly using their IT infrastructure to increase their competitive advantage. Learn how this can work in practice.
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Cloud technology potentially offers insurers an efficient way to undertake the huge amount of actuarial and risk modelling calculations that need to be performed. But with concerns around data security and reliability, is it really a fail-safe option?...
Rapid technological advances mean that financial institutions in Asia are looking to cloud computing solutions as an alternative to investing in internal infrastructure. But regulators around the region are cautious about the potential pitfalls involved...
We're at a critical turning point for risk, finance and compliance functions in the banking sector. Faced with the dual pressure of increased regulatory activity and ongoing economic pressures, organisations are looking to transform the role of these...
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act stands to transform the global tax framework and how financial institutions track and report on their clients’ financial assets. With the law slated to come into effect in 2013, its implications and how financial...
Quants should take their share of the blame for the crisis, and should focus on less mathematically complex models, said some panellists – although not everyone at Quant Congress Europe agreed
Market sentiment could eventually be used as an input for risk and trading models, helping to predict future events, says John Macdonald of IBM Algorithmics
When US private equity firm Vista Equity Partners finally won its battle to take over Misys on June 1 – merging it with Turaz, the technology business it bought from Thomson Reuters in February – it created a new giant in trading, risk management...
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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