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New applications in Asia’s financial crime analytics
Financial crime is a fast-growing problem for Asia‑Pacific financial services firms. Working with outmoded systems and patched-up processes to detect, monitor and eliminate potential threats, banks are spending millions on sophisticated new solutions to…
Modelling cyber losses could get easier – study
Cyber losses behaved much like non-cyber losses when grouped by severity, so perhaps less data is needed
FASB bins regional bank CECL proposal
Plan would have allowed smaller lenders to reduce capital impact of expected losses
Will the Nasdaq default spur CVA for CCPs?
Quant proposes model to calculate bank credit risk exposure to CCP
Top 10 op risks 2019: theft and fraud
Rogue employees are costly, but the thought of cyber mayhem dominates managers’ concerns
Top 10 operational risks for 2019
The biggest op risks for 2019, as chosen by industry practitioners
Tackling local compliance in an increasingly globalised world
TMF Group’s Leon Mao, head of family business and wealth solutions in Hong Kong, explores the pressing challenges of addressing both local and global regulations to minimise regulatory and reputational risk in the Asia‑Pacific region
Top 10 operational risk losses of 2018
Mega-fraud at China’s Anbang pushes up total losses year on year; SocGen suffers double blow
A tale of two CCPs
Nasdaq and Ice breaches carry warnings for the market
Profit emergence under IFRS 17
Major changes are expected under the new IFRS 17 regime – insurance companies must make efforts to comprehend and communicate the full impact of changes to profit emergence under different scenarios, and its sensitivity to different methodology choices,…
Is operational risk regulation forward looking and sensitive to current risks?
This paper evaluates the operational risk capital requirements of large US banks to determine whether they are forward looking, sensitive to banks’ current exposures and designed to allow for risk mitigation.
Capital One MBS sale to boost CET1
Portfolio shuffle will take $200 million out of AOCI
Skin in the game
This paper analyzes the cost of putting aside capital as skin in the game (SITG).