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With a bang or a fizzle?
With the deadline having passed for submitting Basel II risk model applications to national regulators, Europe's financial institutions should be well on their way to compliance. But the reality is that...
What a year banks have ahead of them. The new Basel capital Accord finally came into force from this month, while European financial institutions must implement the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to hammer out several key provisions of the US Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, intended to increase transparency in the ratings industry. But some analysts...
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Aftershocks of the Big Bang
At the end of October, the City of London celebrated the 20th anniversary of the 'Big Bang' – the first big deregulation of the financial services industry in the UK.
Roundtable: Relationship between op risk and compliance
Welcome to the Roundtable on the relationship between op risk and compliance Compliance is on everyone's mind. It's a wide-ranging issue, concerning internal policy adherence and external regulatory demands. The financial services feel the pinch more...
A broader scope
Welcome to the rechristened OpRisk & Compliance .
Compromising on Basel II
As US banking regulators debate how much of the spirit of Basel II should be applied to small and medium-sized financial institutions, the banks themselves are stuck in no-man's land. Will 'Basel 1A' bring more certainty or more argument? John Ferry reports...
Shaping the future
In lighter, sillier moments down the pub, when we were thinking about what to rename the magazine to help it better reflect the industry's evolution and its content, we went through some rather daft combinations.
A case for convergence?
With Basel II regulatory capital becoming increasingly more risk-sensitive, the value of a separate economic capital system must be questioned. Christopher Hall of Risk Advisors considers the differences between economic capital and regulatory capital,...
Regulation and compliance
The US regulators' decision to delay implementation of Basel II by an extra year has put the cat among the pigeons. Of course, it can't be expected that the US implement the Accord if it feels the calibrations are completely inaccurate – which would...
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