4423 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
While discussions about the final contents of MiFID 2 seem set to continue for some while yet, the European Securities and Markets Authority has anticipated some important MiFID 2 issues in a set of Guidelines issued (rather quietly!) in February: Guidelines on systems and controls in an automated trading environment for trading platforms, investm...
23 April 2012 /regulation
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Low levels of process automation across client on-boarding and account opening in the Investment and Corporate banking space provides on-going challenges for banks and financial institutions in terms of revenue growth, client service and compliance management. So why has this space remained neglected for so long? Well, in fairness it’s not so much...
23 April 2012 /regulation /wholesale
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The 2012 Identity Fraud Report: Social Media and Mobile Forming the New Fraud Frontier report released by Javelin Strategy & Research Data Breaches increasing and more damaging – “One likely contributing factor to the fraud increase was the 67 percent increase in the number of Americans impacted by data breaches compared to 2010. Javelin Strat...
19 April 2012 /security /regulation
In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In part II, I will expand upon the specific uses of these models, in particular managing existing credit lines. For evaluating a request for additional credit or determining the collectability of an existing customer...
18 April 2012 /regulation Treasury Management
If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, and social media profiles are considered “digital assets,” which may have some monetary value, but for the most part offer sentimental value to the f...
18 April 2012 /security /regulation
I've let the ball drop on blogging for the past few weeks, but have been thinking a lot about the issues. The Post Trade Forum debate on Are Clearing Houses Increasing Risk? will take place on Tuesday morning at the London Stock Exchange. I've just finished my key note presentation for the debate, and I'm afraid I come down on the side of incr...
15 April 2012 /regulation Post-Trade Forum
Throughout the years I have worked in credit and collections, either doing credit analysis related to commercial lending decisions or identifying the elements that should be weighed when reviewing trade credit lines. I have seen many different scoring models used for many different purposes including judgmental scoring models that focus on the use...
10 April 2012 /regulation Treasury Management
Andy Morris Risk Business Solutions Consultant at ACI Worldwide
For those for you that have been tracking the NFA’s last estimate was £38.4bn, but the rise is really buried in the detail and largely attributed to the NFA casting their net on UK PLC a little wider and completing more granular analysis. There is also some interesting comparative finger point for example UK Government sector at £20.3bn, whilst U...
04 April 2012 /payments /regulation
Manish Jain industry principal at Infosys Ltd
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. - Warren Buffett Since the financial crisis, consumer trust surveys have invariably rated banks near the bottom. For service organizations like banks, reputation is the basic foundation of business. This intangible asset mani...
03 April 2012 /regulation /retail
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 now at the highest level seen in over a year. The “New credit application” index has grown from 59.5 up to 60.4 this month. The global economy is recov...
30 March 2012 /regulation Financial Risk Management
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