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Dubai: The legal issues highlighted by the crisis
Dubai World’s emergency debt restructure last year and the continuing debate over the integrity of sukuk products have rocked investor confidence in the Dubai International Financial Centre. Tricky...
Despite the difficulty and cost involved, even banks accept that aspects of the old financial...
Risk management: how to prepare for the next crisis
Nigel Milbank believes one of the causes of the recent financial crisis was risk professionals’...
- Freshfields launches practice to counter 'aggressive cross-border' investigations
- Political risk top industry worry, say CSFI and PwC
- SEC’s Schapiro: compliance professionals play ‘critical role’
- More arrests as FSA steps up fight against insider dealing
- SEC charges two California firms with ‘improper short selling’
- Société Générale suffers €1.4 billion in asset writedowns
- FDIC wades into US remuneration debate
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Reality bites
Op risk management no longer sits solely in the theoretical space, and has been brought down to earth with a thud. Patrick de Fontnouvelle...
Defining liquidity risk
When will firms start realising that liquidity risk contains operational risk? David Benyon argues that companies ignore this link...
Curbing your risk appetite
When setting their levels of acceptable risk, do firms know how much is too much? Deepa Govindarajan introduces the concept of a...
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Back to basics
The bankers’ campaign against plans by US President Barack Obama and regulators worldwide to limit the size and trading activities of financial...
FSA: op risk has role to play in managing liquidity
LONDON – The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a ‘Dear CEO’ letter to chief executives at banks, building societies...
The hidden risk
Risk is inherent in the use of spreadsheets within financial institutions but it has long been ignored. Now regulatory scrutiny into processes is spurring...
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Losses & lawsuits
Lloyds and OFAC settle for $217m on sanctions violations
WASHINGTON, DC – The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced a $217 million settlement with Lloyds TSB over...
SEC logs new complaint in Merrill bonus case
WASHINGTON, DC – The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an updated complaint in its court case against Bank of America (BofA...
Rankings
Consultancy rankings: Preparing the next war
Still reeling after the crisis, financial firms have been cautious in their uptake of consultancy services. This year's OR&C consultancy rankings show...
All in one -- Software rankings
Budgets are under pressure, and more and more firms are opting for a single platform provider for all their compliance software needs. Victoria Pennington...
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