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UK Minister hails Solvency II
Ivan Lewis MP, a minister at the UK's Treasury with responsibility for insurance, has hailed the Solvency II process as a mechanism to enable the EU's insurance industry to remain competitive in the face of the globalisation of the financial services…
Machiavelli and MiFID
CIOs face a new world of regulation and their saving grace is preparation.
CROs make Solvency II plea
Members of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Forum used an address at Life and Pensions' December 2005 Insurance Risk conference to call for significant improvements to the Solvency II regime that the EU is expected to implement before the end of the decade.
The fundamentals of operational risk assessments
In the third of a series on scaling operational risk management for the small to medium-sized institution, Eric Holmquist discusses the fundamental elements to consider when developing an operational risk assessment where the emphasis is on process…
External data: reaching for the truth
Algo OpVantage's Penny Cagan dispels 10 myths associated with using external data in an op risk context.
Who's buying?
Operational risk derivatives are being reconsidered as a solution to banks' distrust of op risk insurance policies, but the market for these is yet to develop. By Duncan Wood
Basel spotlights home-host and EL issues
Basel, Switzerland – The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released two documents in late November, to provide the financial services industry with some additional clarity on both the home-host issue and the treatment of expected losses under the…
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