Operational risk
Banks slam "overly prescriptive" CESR
REGULATORY UPDATE
S&P to set up hedge fund evaluation service
MEASUREMENT
Mifid regulation speeds up amid concern
REGULATORY UPDATE
Mifid think-tank tackles testing issues
REGULATORY UPDATE
Is SOX reform about to take off?
Peter Madigan investigates proposals for long-awaited changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
FSA leaves product disclosure regime alone
REGULATORY UPDATE
Looking into the crystal ball
Eric Holmquist presents some observations on the trends in ORM, and offers predictions on what to expect in 2007 and beyond
Knuckling down
Hedge funds
SPA newswire
North America
The rise of replication
Hedge funds
The advancing tide of rationalisation
Rationalisation, rationalisation, rationalisation. There is no denying it, this is the major theme in operational risk in the US at the moment, and it is a trend that is spreading to Europe as well.
PCAOB proposes new auditing standards
PCAOB proposes new auditing standard for the audits of registrants' internal control over financial reporting under SOX Section 404
SEB's Basel II credit risk model approved
SEB internal credit risk models approved by Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority
CESR issues consultation paper on the use of reference data standard codes in transaction reporting
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) issues CP on reference data codes for MiFID
SEC modifies compliance rules to Sarbanes-Oxley for overseas companies and postpones deadline for smaller companies compliance to SOX
The US SEC has announced that it will ease rules for overseas companies having to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.
CESR publishes consultation paper on the passport under MiFID
CESR has published a consultation paper on the passport under MiFID that sets out proposals for a common approach to the notification procedures
HSBC joins its peers in objections to US Basel II
HSBC North America Holdings voices its opposition to the Basel II proposal
FSA publishes international regulatory outlook
The FSA has published its 2006 International Regulatory Outlook.
CEIOPS publishes supplement to consultation paper
CEIOPS has published a supplement to its recent Solvency II Consultation Paper No. 20
Academics to revise Thomson report
MANAGEMENT
Validate To Accumulate
MODELLING
Survey lends credence to Mifid sceptics' doubts
REGULATORY UPDATE