Operational risk
Living with recognition
Under new accounting rules implemented this year, the majority of Europe's asset-backed securities transactions will now have to be recognised on balance sheet. Will this lead to a drop in securitisation volumes? Duncan Wood reports
Sponsor's Webcast Basel II- mere compliance or more business?
Basel II compliance is not just a cumbersome regulatory requirement. It actually presents a unique opportunity to improve your risk management processes, and ultimately your bank's performance.
Industry groups speak out on SEC rating agency rules
Financial industry bodies broadly greeted the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed rules on approving nationally recognised statistical rating organisations (NRSROs), but voiced concern that the final rules could be too lax.
A place on the grid
A growing number of banks have implemented grid technology for their risk management and derivatives trading businesses, allowing them to borrow spare capacity from dormant computers to process complex tasks in a fraction of the time. By Clive Davidson
BMO Financial Group selects Reveleus for Basel II Compliance
BMO Financial Group (BMO), the Canadian-based financial services corporation, has selected the Reveleus Basel II Solution for its Basel II compliance requirements.
Sponsor's article > At long last...
After more than a decade of active deployment at major institutions, simulation-based estimation of counterparty credit exposure is on track to become part of the Basel II regulatory capital regime.1 David Rowe notes, however, that its impact on…
Amend Basel II Trading Book Proposals, Basel Committee urged
American broker-dealers are opposed to some of the proposals recently published by the Basel Committee to improve the management of market risks.
The ABC of PCA
LNG
Squaring the gearing circle
roundtable: funds of hedge funds leverage
What's on investors' minds…
Some US institutions are asking where the alpha will come from, whether a pyrrhic victory will result if their 1.5% in hedge funds is the portfolio's sole performer, what will shake their colleagues out of hedge funds, and are hedge funds truly "monsters…
Swift convergence of IFRS and GAAP needed
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
More progress needed in compliance functions
MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE
Drop in interest rate and credit derivatives woes
MEASUREMENT ADVANCES
Tough challenges ahead, says Citi head
COVER STORY
OCC targets large banks’ reputational risk
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
NPR: under wraps, for now
US FRAMEWORK UPDATE
Op risk software industry due for shakeout
MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE
Sub-groups to study MiFID effect on EU
REGULATORY UPDATE
Briefs
MEASUREMENT ADVANCES
CRD timing in doubt
REGULATORY UPDATE
Op risk tools usage ‘set to double’ – DSGV
MEASUREMENT ADVANCES
Briefs
REGULATORY UPDATE
UK speeds towards Basel II implementation
REGULATORY UPDATE