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Corporate Actions and the Need for Standards
The industry needs standards to automate corporate actions and meet the Group of Thirty's recommendations. By Gary Write, director, CityCompass.
SIAC Says SFTI Passed Blackout Test
NEW YORK - Officials of the Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC) report that its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network in greater New York went uninterrupted during the August 14 blackout that hit North America.
Get your house in order
On Thursday August 14 this year, the lights went out across the northeast US and the Canadian province of Ontario, in the worst ever power failure in North American history.
Risk transparency without position transparency
When high-profile blow-ups hit the headlines, calls for greater transparency come to the fore. By Peter Davies, vice-chairman, RiskMetrics Group
US bulge-bracket firms get serious about compliance
US bulge-bracket firms are starting to address a number of complex compliance and ethical business issues in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by investing in technology to monitor their employees' conduct.
Signs are good for IAS 39 final preparations
IAS 39 is still being finalised, but bank asset and liability managers are already putting in place systems and procedures to make sure their businesses come up to scratch. John Ferry reports
The dilemmas of risk disclosure
Barry Schachter discovers that the path towards a workable structure for hedge fund quantitative risk disclosure is very narrow. Bad news for the post-LTCM lobbyists
Emerging markets raise concerns at World Bank meeting
The discretion to introduce more flexibility in calculating certainoperational risks under the alternative standard approach (ASA) wascautiously welcomed by developing country representatives present at theWorld Bank/International Monetary Fund’s seminar…
VAR: history or simulation?
Greg Lambadiaris, Louiza Papadopoulou, George Skiadopoulos and Yiannis Zoulis assess the performance of historical and Monte Carlo simulation in calculating VAR, using data from the Greek stock and bond market. They find that while historical simulation…
Measuring operational risk: a reality check
In the second of two articles on operational risk, Mark Holmes looks at the measurement issues involved, taking a constructively critical look at the ideas currently in vogue.
Fed to change supervision structure for Basel II
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will change the way its supervisory departments are structured in order to implement Basel II, William Rutledge, executive vice president of the banking supervision group and a member of the management committee at…
Sponsor's article > Basel backlash: the summer of discontent
Regulators in the United States have been voicing their concerns about Basel II for some time. But now banks elsewhere are also opposing some of the proposals.
Sponsor's article > Reason for hope
One disappointing aspect of the Basel II deliberations has been the lack of any proposed change in the treatment of counterparty credit exposures. David Rowe argues that recent dialogue between the Basel Committee and industry representatives offers hope…
Moody’s KMV upgrades portfolio management tool
San Francisco-based quantitative credit analytics firm, Moody’s KMV, a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation, has updated its portfolio manager tool. The upgrade will give portfolio and risk managers at banks, insurance companies and asset management firms…
The global standard
In this article on anti-money laundering, Dominic Nixon and Rohan Bedi of PricewaterhouseCoopers analyse the final changes to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 40 recommendations.
Data vendors hold key to Measurisk survival
Measurisk, a US-based risk technology provider to buy-side community, is scrambling to secure cheaper new contracts from its data vendors in a last-ditch effort to remain a viable business concern. If it can’t convince these vendors to lower their prices…