Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
US banks may lose sovereign clients over margin rules
US banks may lose sovereign clients over Dodd-Frank margin posting rules
Trouble of removing ratings highlighted by SEC
SEC proposal to remove ratings shows difficulty ahead for other US regulators, including banking agencies
OpRisk North America: Dodd-Frank clouds Basel III implementation
Requirement to remove credit ratings causing a headache for regulators
ORR Innovation Awards 2011: Initiative of the Year
Angelos Deftereos, Oric
S&P rolls out contango-free GSCI index
S&P rolls out contango-free GSCI index
FCIC report: the major findings
Risk summarises the major conclusions from the commission report
HSBC issued with cease-and-desist order for AML failures
HSBC's North American arm accused of deficiencies in compliance
HSBC issued with cease-and-desist order for AML failures
Bank's North American arm ordered to improve compliance systems; might still face financial penalty.
Is VAR a useful tool in volatile markets?
Is VAR a useful tool in volatile markets?
OpRisk Europe: The slow drive for change
Speakers at OpRisk Europe agreed that, while change in op risk legislation and capital calculation is necessary, it needs to be undertaken slowly and carefully
Banker bonuses cut by EU amendments to CRD...
...and US issues supervisory guidance
Changing Hats, August 2010
The movers and shakers in the op risk professions
OTS pays the price of failure
The US Office of Thrift Supervision will be abolished under the Dodd-Frank Act, but is the agency being made a scapegoat for the financial crisis or will its dissolution help mitigate regulatory arbitrage and raise supervisory standards? Peter Madigan…
Quant Congress USA: "Only models were reliable during crisis," says AQR CRO
Quants push back against criticism of models at Risk's Quant Congress USA event in New York
Dodd-Frank: Abolition of OTS will boost OCC
OTS and OCC light-touch supervision grew bank assessment fees but fed institutional collapses
FDIC plans to continue proposals linking pay structures to banks’ deposit insurance
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp says its plan to link banks’ compensation arrangements with premiums is “complementary” to supervisory guidance issued jointly by regulators
US regulatory guidance for compensation structures snubs FDIC proposal
Final pay guidance from US regulators shows no trace of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) proposal for higher premiums for banks with risky compensation structures
Basel QIS 6 a 'mini-LDCE'
The Basel Committee out with a mini loss-data collection exercise to track performance over crisis period
US bank regulators align with Basel Committee on liquidity
US banking regulators have issued new liquidity risk policy co-ordinated with Basel Committee guidance.
An operational model
Scarce and shallow loss data has been the bane of operational risk models historically, but a new paper calls for more work on statistical approaches that could improve their sensitivity. By Peter Madigan