Articles by Miranda Alexander-Webber
EC fines banks €1.7bn over benchmark rigging
Eight banks fined for participating in illegal cartels; UBS avoids €2.5 billion fine in exchange for co-operation
JP Morgan agrees record $13 billion settlement with DoJ
Settlement resolves civil claims over residential mortgage-backed securities
Building better benchmarks in Dubai: DME's Chris Fix on running an oil exchange
Top of the agenda for the Dubai Mercantile Exchange and its chief executive, Christopher Fix, is assuring the integrity of its crude oil benchmark. He talks to OpRisk about the operational challenges stemming from the exchange’s unique regulatory…
Handling the risks of rapid recruitment
An unprecedented recruitment process has taken place in recent years to handle the payment protection insurance scandal. The financial services industry has had to rapidly embrace the challenge of hiring staff in their thousands, but lessons learnt from…
G-30 call for better scrutiny of bank boards
Financial leaders urge supervisors to assess the culture of banks
SFO investigating 22 individuals over Libor, court hears
Ex-trader Tom Hayes allegedly conspired with 22 others
Econ chair Bowles calls for better ethics beyond banks
Accountants and lawyers also need to improve behavioural standards
UK banks improving on sales incentives, says FCA's Wheatley
Three out of four major UK banks now link incentives to more than just sales, regulator says
Financial ombudsman: lack of trust behind rise in complaints
10% of consumers will take rejected complaints to the FOS
Yellen nominated for Federal Reserve chair, and other recent job moves
Changing hats – November 2013
Mis-selling: the true cost to financial institutions
Banks are expected to spend millions on staff, fines and fees for handling complaints
Banks to pay £400m in fees to ombudsman over PPI complaints
£900 fee per PPI claim handled has seen banks rack up millions in charges
Understanding risk landscape key to business success, forum hears
Risk managers must speak the language of CFOs to have greater influence
More focus needed on response to data breaches, says panel
Firms focusing on prevention, but they need to concentrate more on detection, say cyber-security experts
Risk managers too focused on model outputs, Lloyd’s risk head says
Risk managers need to look beyond models and consider a wider universe of risks, says Reeves
Insurers need to do better on innovation, say chief executives
The insurance sector needs to up its game and help companies remove new risks from their balance sheets, panellists say
CRO’s role must be more clearly defined, conference told
Greater communication between departments also key to risk management
Van Hulle urges parties to reach agreement in Omnibus II negotiations
Former Solvency II head at European Commission says agreement in the interests of all stakeholders
Icap fined $87.4m for Libor manipulation as brokers charged
CFTC and FCA impose fines of $65 million and £14 million
JP Morgan fined $920m over 'woefully deficient' London Whale controls
UK and US authorities fine bank over $6.2 billion trading losses in July 2012
CFTC appoints director of market oversight division
Vincent McGonagle to replace acting director Richard Shilts
Scotiabank promotes Hart to risk chief, and other recent job moves
Stephen Hart replaces Rob Pitfield as Scotiabank CRO, and other Changing Hats stories from the past month
Data, delays and loss of focus: operational risks in M&A
When two become one
Italy 'killing its capital markets' with HFT tax
Tax on high-frequency trading and equity derivatives introduced in Italy