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UK insurers to face tough model governance standards under ICAS+ regime...
The Prudential Regulation Authority is quietly developing its transitional risk-based capital modelling regime to help insurers prepare for Solvency II. But many aspects of how Icas+ will operate remain...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) is currently consulting on interim measures, covering areas such as risk governance and reporting, to help supervisors and firms prepare...
Eleven EU states have agreed to implement a harmonised financial transaction tax, due to begin in January 2014. The tax has a huge extraterritorial reach, posing serious questions about its impact on Asia...
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Financial institutions are working harder than ever to mitigate their operational risk in the post-crisis world, but what are the challenges they face when trying to ensure their vendors aren’t leaving them open to risks, and can they ever really fully...
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Newly released reports into the failures of management at several major banks – HBOS, Barclays, and JP Morgan among them – show that some of the worst losses had roots deeper than the 2008 credit crisis. Toxic internal culture and poor management,...
Standardise op risk reporting, RBS’s Spielmann says
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Overreliance on outsourcing is a growing risk for asset managers
Regulators are turning their attention to reliance on outsourcing – but there may be little that asset managers can do to reverse the trend, even if they wanted to
Think locally, act locally: Anger over US plans for foreign banks
The Federal Reserve is planning a radical departure from traditional supervision by requiring the local offshoots of foreign banks to meet US capital and liquidity rules. Overseas banks are furious – and regulators are backing them publicly, amid fears...
Banks and EBA join forces over liquidity buffer accounting
Banks and industry groups have been joined by an unlikely ally in their protests about the accounting treatment of assets held in liquidity buffers – the European Banking Authority. By Lukas Becker and Matt Cameron
Emir forcing European banks in Asia to consider the local subsidiary...
With Esma recognition for various Asian CCPs wholly uncertain at this point, European banks operating in the region face a stark strategic choice to stay in some markets
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