4464 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
Chalk up a victory for the financial services industry last weekend in its resistance to higher capital requirements under Basel III. Institutions would still have to maintain significant buffers to prevent another round of government bailouts, but they could dip into these high-quality assets when times get tough enough. “During a period of stres...
10 January 2012 /regulation
Dennis Baillon Regional Sales Executive, APAC at Charles River Development
Australia’s superannuation funds are amongst the fastest growing in the world following more than a decade of compulsory contributions and there are a number of trends and challenges that they face. ‘Super’ Trends A number of trends have affected the superannuation industry in Australia; there was the super system review of 2010 by Jeremy Cooper, f...
09 January 2012 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
It’s that time of year, for holiday cheer, to give of ourselves and ring in the New Year. But while you celebrate, please keep in mind, criminals and hackers are not far behind. Mobile malware is here; it’s increased since last year. Be sure to install mobile malware protection, so that you don’t receive an unwelcome infection. QR codes are bar...
08 January 2012 /security /regulation
What’s going to get us out of the doldrums? Growth of course! What’s going to drive growth? Increased business activity! While we are being told this, there are a whole range of factors that are going to put the squeeze on trade. The universal currency for international commodity trading is the dollar. The commodity trading organisations I work ...
05 January 2012 /regulation /wholesale
Defending against fraud is difficult even in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. The gains achieved by making card transactions more secure have pushed fraud to the main gate of entry: the application. In the most notorious form of application fraud, organized crime rings open accounts using stolen identities or synthetic iden...
27 December 2011 /regulation
So much for “praise in public and reprimand in private.” A teacher publicly reprimanding a student who launches a spitball in class demonstrates to everyone the consequences of certain behavior. Regulators’ handling of the 2008 financial crisis and this year’s scandals among UBS, MF Global and others had to be as public as they were demonstrative. ...
23 December 2011 /regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
There has been a 25% decline in the total mail volume for the USPS (United States Postal Service) from 2006-2011, resulting in a $5.1 Billion loss in 2011 alone. Since 2007 the USPS has been unable to cover its annual budget, 80 percent of which goes to salaries and benefits. In contrast, 43 percent of FedEx's (FDX) budget and 61 percent of United...
22 December 2011 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Laptops, desktops, Macs, mobiles, and tablets are on many people’s wish lists this holiday season. Once these shiny new devices are connected to the Internet, they will be under siege by malware created by criminals in order to steal identities. According to a recent McAfee survey, 60% of consumers now own at least three digital devices, and 25% ow...
21 December 2011 /security /regulation
As a result of OTC clearing reform – Dodd-Frank, EMIR – the cost of OTC deals is clearly going to rise, and spreads and volumes are going to fall. Who can make money in a market like that? With the cost of eligible collateral pledged to clearing houses rising – due to the shortage of collateral, cash and non-cash – banks will have no choice but to ...
19 December 2011 /regulation /wholesale
On our way home from a recent family vacation, my two year old grew understandably anxious and uncooperative while waiting for a flight in an airport terminal. So I handed over my iPhone, hoping to distract her. Within seconds, she had launched the photo application and begun scrolling through the videos of our trip. She’d watch a video, giggle a ...
16 December 2011 /security /regulation
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