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Liquidity Risk Management Directory

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The A-Team Group Liquidity Risk Management Directory is a new and first of its kind publication, focusing on the providers of solutions in the complex and demanding area of liquidity risk management. As financial institutions face extensive new requirements in the management of liquidity risk, the directory is intended to provide indispensable assistance in the assessment and selection of solution providers.

In the wake of the global credit crisis, liquidity risk has moved high on the agenda of financial institutions and regulators. Solutions providers are responding with new and enhanced products and services to meet the needs of all sectors of the financial services industry. We will be updating the directory on a regular basis as global liquidity risk management requirements are defined and as vendors bring new solutions to the table.

A key feature of the directory is the A-Team “Ask the Experts” section, providing a platform for solutions providers to address critical issues in the management of liquidity risk. Leading providers have contributed thought-provoking commentaries on the scope and complexity inherent in liquidity risk management solutions in today’s financial services industry.

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10 Nov 2009

White Paper - Risk Management Drives Cross-Enterprise Data Connections

As financial institutions fight to survive in the post credit crunch climate, they are reviewing the serious challenges they face as they come to grips with new priorities in risk management across the enterprise. No longer just a middle office function, risk management is becoming the heart of financial institutions, driving business practices and governing the future direction of the industry.

To build accurate, representative picture of a firm’s risk exposure, firms are employing a hierarchy of measures that require new data items and sources, more timely data, and reengineering of data management solutions. Much of this data may be already maintained within the firm, but political and technological barriers have kept its management siloed, controlled by different fiefdoms. Recent events have highlighted the danger of not tackling the risk management challenge.

A-Team Group surveyed senior managers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and broker/dealers to understand how data management processes are evolving to meet new risk management challenges, who is driving change within the institutions, and what are they looking for from their data and data management suppliers to help them meet these challenges. Our findings are contained within this in-depth report, which you can download free below.

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08 Jul 2009

Special Report: Complex Event Processing

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Over the past couple of years, Complex Event Processing has emerged as a hot technology for the financial markets, and its flexibility has been leveraged in applications as diverse as market data cleansing, to algorithmic trading, to compliance monitoring, to risk management. CEP is a solution to many problems, which is one reason why the emerging marketplace is growing, with many vendor options to choose from.

But CEP is not a solution in itself, and so technologists need to concern themselves with how to integrate it within a complete application architecture, how it can best be leveraged, and how to streamline development and deployment. And with multiple vendor choices, choosing the right CEP approach for the job is an important, and early, activity for firms looking to adopt it.

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18 Jun 2009

White Paper - Countdown to 2011: Are you ready to break the Giovannini Barrier?

Eight years on from the original Giovannini report, and three years after the publication of the Giovannini Protocol, how far has the industry progressed with implementing the solution to eliminate Barrier 1? Who has taken the initiative, and who is lagging behind? Is elimination of Barrier 1 still a priority for the industry in light of the unprecedented circumstances heralded by the global financial crisis? Can the March 2011 deadline be met, and is the demise of Barrier 1 in sight?

This paper, authored by SWIFT, examines the progress that has been made to date in eliminating Barrier 1, and argues that the drivers for adoption of the Giovannini Protocol are stronger than ever. It argues that other industry initiatives such as Target2Securities (T2S) and the Code of Conduct actually make progress on Barrier 1 even more important, and should not be used as distractions. It also proposes next steps the industry should take in order to ensure the adoption of this readily available solution to the long-understood problem of inefficient communications, which cause low levels of interoperability between players involved in clearing and settlement in the EU.

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01 Jun 2009

A Design for the Enterprise Risk Ecosystem

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A Design for the Enterprise Risk Ecosystem The lack of a single, holistic view of enterprise risk among financial institutions has been identified as a key factor in the ongoing financial crisis. With data organized along business lines – largely on a silo basis – risk managers have been merely measuring the risk of firms’ vertical operations, rather than truly managing it. The result has been a lack of real information on holdings, exposures and counterparties, and an incomplete view of enterprise risk.

Industry practitioners expect regulators to impose a more stringent regime upon the financial services industry in the wake of recent events. Meanwhile, risk managers are struggling to establish a view of group-level risk. It’s becoming clear to executives that that a truly enterprise-wide approach to risk management must be underpinned by a consistent, managed approach to data.

The need to establish a standard platform that addresses the data management challenge an enterprise approach to risk requires, is now being recognized by financial institutions as a critical element as they review their risk operations. This Briefing, produced by A-Team Group on behalf of Sybase, gives some insight into issues surrounding the creation of a standard enterprise-wide data architecture and offers guidance on how a risk ecosystem can be achieved. Download your free copy below.
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07 May 2009

Business Entity Identifiers - The Crucial Foundation for Accurate Risk Management (Japanese Version)

New Japanese translation of this white paper is available for download below. To download the English version, click here.

Written by the editors of A-Team Group, commissioned and sponsored by Standard and Poor’s

As the financial world continues to grapple with the fallout of the credit crisis, one thing is clear: managing risk is now paramount to the surviving financial institutions. But you can’t manage what you don’t know.

Many financial institutions have been caught in the current environment through a lack of awareness of their true exposure to risky investments, and ultimately to those entities which defaulted, leading to record losses and write-downs across the industry.

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05 May 2009

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