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Bank of the year: Nordea
Business continuity overhaul lets Nordea stand out
Regulator of the year: Mark Carey
Work on incentive reform was well received
Paper of the year: Bakhodir Ergashev, Stefan Mittnik and Evan Sekeris
Paper focuses on dealing with sparse data
Fraud and financial crime software provider of the year: Oracle
Higher costs of failure are driving banks to improve anti-fraud measures
Operational risk software provider of the year: Thomson Reuters
Accelus wins again for ease of use and flexibility
Law firm of the year: Stephenson Harwood
Law firm at the heart of bitter and complex fraud cases
GRC platform of the year: Wolters Kluwer
Moving towards unified risk management approach
Consultancy of the year: KPMG
Dealing with regulatory demands and uncertainty
Bulk purchase of enhanced annuities offers growth potential
Medically underwritten buy-ins offer opportunities but with unique risks
Progressive insurers revise approach to sovereign risk
Some supervisors pressing firms to risk weight sovereign bonds
Corruption in Latin America requires caution but not panic
Low-level bribery happens, but avoiding the risk is practical, lawyers say
Banks tussle to join next generation of commodity dealers
Insurgents increase involvement as major global banks retreat
CFTC upping enforcement effort, warns former chief
Dodd-Frank Act to boost CFTC war on market abuse, says Meister
Insurers warm to risk factor diversification
Insurers are rethinking their investment process in terms of risk factors
Behavioural analytics takes root in hedge funds
Traders and compliance departments find use for data analytics
Insurers to repackage assets for matching adjustment
Firms consider structured options for assets to meet Solvency II criteria
Candriam finds momentum with New York Life
Dexia AM undergoes transformation with sale to NY Life
Insurance risk managers draw on unstructured data
Latest analytical tools helping insurers to sift through their data
Looking back: oil market's future is different from its past
"Financial revolution" can no longer be ignored, argues Krapels
Asia dealers review CCP risk management approaches
Shanghai Clearing House lags regional peers, say market participants
AIFMD warning on ‘informal' risk management
Risk regulation under the alternative investment fund managers directive is not simply a series of data points, says SS&C's James Ramenda
Asia corporates hesitate to hedge out interest rate risk
Negative carry versus short-term rates is deterring firms from hedging
Dalian iron ore contract boosts overall market liquidity
Rather than acting as a rival to SGX, DCE complements its Singapore counterpart, insiders say
Morgan Stanley crowns King as head of oil liquids
Other commodities moves at BAML, Freepoint, GDF Suez & Goldman Sachs