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This network brings together professionals involved in the oversight and management of their company's financial risks and exposures as well as solution vendors, in order to discuss risk issues including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and commodity price risk, among others.
Flying on the Wings of Curiosity in the Sky of Prosperity… What Determines a Credit Bureau’s Success As published today by The National Association of Credit Managers, the Credit Manager’s Index is no...
As the value of the day to day decisions grow, the importance of Decision Management Solution deployment becomes undoubted. Organizations adopting Decision Management improve business results by suppo...
About one out of seven UAE bank customers will recommend their bank to friends and family, reveals a Souqalmal.com survey. “Behavioral intelligence solutions assist banks in pro-actively approaching t...
Happen to attend a Webminar on Progressive Core banking transformation. Major take home points after an hour of the presentation as follows Current Scenario 1. Core banking transformation is nothing b...
Middle class population in Africa has tripled since 1972 and has now reached 34% of the content’s population (data by “The Middle of the Pyramid: Dynamics of the Middle Class in Africa” report by Afr...
Basel III, CRDIV, European Union Crisis: The "malediction" of the new banking regulations. In October 2010 at the Seoul Summit, the G20 Leaders committed to the adoption and full implementat...
So, now we all know the dirty little secret at the heart of the latest alleged 'rogue trader' scandal at UBS. Risk management was ignored. Well, knock me down with a slide ruler. Now, I wrote a rathe...
So we all woke up this morning to find that UBS was reporting a $2 billion loss due to a ...wait for it ... 'rogue trader'. Yes, mistakes happen. Yes, fraud, abuse and criminal activity happen. But y...
Bipin Patel: FT letter to the editor 4 Jul 2011 To see the original article on Financial Time's website click here (you may need to be registered to gain full access). Margin strategy critical in CCP...
After much discussion and soul-searching – the largest banks in the EU have finally published their stress test results to the European Banking Authority which, in turn, published them to the wider ma...
I recently completed some research on single dealer platforms or FX eCommerce systems, which are designed for market makers and dealers in foreign currency trading. My research covered FX aggregation,...
We're hosting a webcast on Finextra right now looking at everyone's favourite tech trend - cloud computing. However, before any IT head worth his iPad case starts dreaming about the processing power,...