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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Nuclear Insurance Fund!

So, the world's most sought after junket in Davos has come to a close. The economic bigwigs, CEOs, intellectual heavyweights have returned after a week of heavy duty deliberation on climate change, financial markets, sub prime, recession, emerging markets, and........... Among the many readable publications by WEF, my own favorite is the Global R...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

HMRC unable to accept encrypted media

Here we are over 2 months after the initial Child Benefit fiasco; you would think the HMRC would have introduced controls to accept encrypted media? The Information Commissioner just issued Marks & Spencer with an Enforcement Notice giving them until 1st April 2008 (ie only 2 months) to complete encryption of all their laptops http://www.ico....

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

SocGen what has changed since Leeson?

In 2005 I attended an event where Nick Leeson provided an honest and forthright presentation of how he managed to create the dealing positions that eventually brought down Barings Bank. He consistently maintained that he could not have carried through his actions, which caused the loss, without the senior management's lackadaisical attitude or eve...

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Alan Goodrich

Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI

SCARY MOVIE... prepare to SCREAM!

Seriously, those of faint disposition should have a cushion handy to hide behind! How often do we read about and debate the moral dilemma of mere mortals "playing God" in areas such as medicine, e.g. stem cell research, and physics, e.g. creating anti-matter – but do we ever have that debate in financial services? On the publicly availabl...

/regulation Trends in Financial Services

Alan Goodrich

Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI

Anyone got 1 Euro to spare..?

On 5th March 1995 Dutch banking and insurance group ING bought Barings for £1 and assumed liabilities of over $600m. According to some McKinsey research presented by Mark Lawrence at a PRMIA event I attended in London on 18th December 2006, based on a sample of more than 350 operational loss events, normalized for industry performance, the decline ...

/regulation Trends in Financial Services

Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Tales of Arabian Knights... Black is parachute colour

Biff!! Bang!! Kerplunk!! -..... These would be annotations if a comic book artist were to draw a strip on last week's events in the financial markets. The industry now looks like how the Roman Army is shown after an encounter with Asterix and Obelix in the famous comic series! We had hardly got over our chills over 'Black Tuesday' - when we have a...

/regulation /retail

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

And the equity derivatives house of the year is...

This just in: January 2008, Incisive Media's annual Risk Awards black-tie dinner. "Last year was the most volatile since 1998, with rising delinquencies in the US subprime mortgage market causing banks to rack up billions of dollars in losses. Risk recognises those institutions that weathered the storm, and continued to provide liquidity and ...

/regulation /wholesale

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Is Jerome Kerviel the new Nick Leeson?

Reports have emerged that the rogue trader responsible for the EUR5 billion trading loss at Société Générale is 30-year-old Frenchman Jérome Kerviel. Apparently sources within the bank leaked the name to the press. The incident is, inevitably, being compared with previous rogue traders, particularly Barings Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson. In his ...

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Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Danger: Traders with middle-office experience

The SocGen fraud story, which is flabbergasting the industry and providing a distraction from credit crunch woes and hand-wringing about the dangers of overly complex structured productios, is remarkable for a number of reasons. The losses don't come from any exotic OTC dealings. Instead, the trader was dealing in plain vanilla futures on European...

/regulation /wholesale

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Dollar 100 oil a barrel, banks for financing opportunities

At US$ 100 oil-a-barrel lots of opportunities can be visible. Every alternative energy / research project on earth was looking expensive at $28 or $36 or $46. But what about $ 60-70-80-90 and now intermediately at $100? Prices are varying everyday and how long one should wait? Do Banks have alternative energy divisions? Has anything done beyond r...

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