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Q&A: Gabriel Bernardino on convergence and Solvency II’s interim measures...
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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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
Despite the crisis giving operational risk the recognition it deserves, its value continues to be called into question. Craig Spielmann, head of operational risk at RBS Americas, talks about learning from credit and market risk practices and the benefits...
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
Systemic risk debate hots up over variable annuities and ILS
Regulators are targeting insurers’ use of variable annuities and insurance-linked securities in their fight against global systemic risk. But insurers say these products are fundamental to the way the insurance industry works. Louie Woodall reports...
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