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Fed’s Cease and Desist Order for RBS Highlights the Data Issues Underlying its AML and Risk Management Practices
The issuance of a joint consent cease and desist order by the US Federal Reserve Board and a number of other state regulators last week for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group’s New York, Illinois and Connecticut branches indicates some of the data issues underlying its risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance functions. The…
IASB Kicks off Public Consultation About Future Focus of IFRS Work Plan
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has asked the industry to provide feedback about its future priorities, as Europe pauses before implementing fair value standards and the standard body awaits a decision from the US about adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IASB chairman Hans Hoogervorst stated this week that the consultation comes “at…
Opinion: Risk Management Nirvana Comes Together in the Form of Real-time
By Dale Stevens, business development director for Capital Markets at SAS UK The case for real-time risk management was made clear in report published by Lepus earlier this week. The report is based on interviews with senior representatives from four global banks and two independent consultants with extensive past experience in the field of risk….
State Street and InfraHedge Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Enhanced Capabilities to Institutional Investors in Hedge Funds
State Street, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, and InfraHedge, a UK-based company providing an independent governance and risk management infrastructure for institutional investors to invest in hedge funds through managed accounts, today announced a new strategic alliance marked by State Street’s majority equity investment in InfraHedge. As the…
EIOPA Publishes XBRL Template and Taxonomy Proposals for Solvency II Quantitative Reporting
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), one of the three industry focused, European level bodies that was created at the start if the year, has released its proposals for XBRL-based templates and a new taxonomy to be used when sending quantitative reports to the regulator as part of their compliance requirements under Solvency…
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Signs for FRSGlobal’s Local Regulatory Reporting Solution for Hong Kong and Singapore
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, a leading worldwide provider of compliance and risk management solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A has chosen its web-enabled local regulatory reporting solution for Hong Kong and Singapore. JPMorgan Chase, N.A. selected FRSGlobal after a selection process in which many factors…
Recorded Webinar: S&P Recorded Webinar: Confidence and Clarity – Understanding Valuation Risk
This recorded webinar will help you to understand how valuations and pricing have evolved over the last couple of years in the post-crisis environment. In this session, you will hear different perspectives on how market participants have been tackling the valuation risk challenge from Paul Sharkey of Northern Trust, James Dimech Debono of KPMG, and…
Pricing Partners Introduces Brazilian Swaps Pricing
Pricing Partners announced today that the Price-it solution has been upgraded to support Brazilian swap conventions. The BRL swap market uses indeed different convention from other swap markets. First of all, the year fraction between two dates is computed as the difference of business days between the two dates divided by 252. Secondly, the fixed…
Indexium Signs with Cadis
Cadis , the global EDM specialist, has been selected by Indexium, to streamline its data management process. Indexium, the Swiss-based startup firm will calculate and distribute all indices for the STOXX Ltd, SIX Swiss Exchange and Deutsche Börse Group. After a successful Proof of Concept (PoC), Cadis is enabling Indexium to create new data feeds,…
Unifying Data for the End-User
The data that traders, researchers and risk managers need is often located across many systems. While ETL, middle-ware and traditional golden copy approaches are useful for data management, they don’t provide the business user with an easy way of analyzing this distributed data, says Xenomorph in its new white paper “TimeScape Data Unification”. A key…