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UK FSA Launches New Study into the Impact of Hedge Fund Regulations

The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has commissioned a new report into the potential costs and impact involved in the implementation of European regulation concerning the alternative investment sector. The regulator has appointed consultancy firm CRA International to conduct the independent study, which will assess the implications for markets and investors, and the potential costs and benefits of the draft legislation published by the European Commission earlier this year.

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26 Aug 2009

Jefferies Putnam Lovell Projects that Expansion Will Supplant Survival as the Dominant Driver of M&A in the Global Asset Management and Financial Technology Sectors FREE - A-Team Wire

25 Aug 2009

Ability to Prove Expertise in Risk Management is Crucial in Current Market, Says 7city Survey

It’s no secret that the profile of risk management has been raised since the financial crisis; after all, this year has seen a slew of reports on that very subject. Consultants and vendors have been profiting from the increased spend in this area and now financial training companies are getting in on the act. One such firm is 7city Learning, which this week produced a survey highlighting the importance of demonstrable expertise in risk management practices (unsurprisingly, something that the firm teaches on a short course basis).

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12 Aug 2009

European Directive Could Cost Pension Industry €25 Billion Annually, Says AIMA FREE - A-Team Wire

04 Aug 2009

CROs May be Widespread But Their Level of Influence Varies, Says PRMIA and CMRA

There can be no doubt that the importance of a senior level risk management focused individual is widely accepted within the industry at the moment, but the influence of such a position still varies from firm to firm. Earlier this month, Deloitte indicated that chief risk officers (CROs) are a more common sight within institutions than ever before and this has been recently be re-confirmed by a survey carried out by the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) and Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA).

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30 Jul 2009

Basel Committee Praises Industry’s Progress on Operational Risk Management

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has this week released two papers aimed at assisting the regulatory community to better measure and monitor the area of operational risk. These two papers comprise: the results from the 2008 Loss Data Collection Exercise for operational risk and “Observed range of practice in key elements of Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA)”.

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30 Jul 2009

UK FSA’s Failed to Engage Industry in Liquidity Risk Regime, Says JWG-IT

Given the industry feedback thus far, it’s no surprise that think tank JWG-IT’s recent survey results have indicated that the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has failed to engage the market in its liquidity regime proposals. The results of the think tank’s polls confirm what has been the topic of every roundtable and panel discussion over the last seven months: UK banks are no way near prepared for the implementation deadline in the fourth quarter of this year.

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28 Jul 2009

Industry Group Says Industry Committed to Make Significant Investments in Risk Management

Last week, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) contended that firms have committed to significantly invest in their risk systems and data in order to meet the demands of the current market. The claims were made alongside a more general call to regulators to effect far-reaching regulatory reforms to reinforce industry efforts to strengthen the global financial system, set out in IIF’s report “Restoring Confidence, Creating Resilience: An Industry Perspective on the Future of International Financial Regulation and the Search for Stability”.

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27 Jul 2009

Enterprise Risk Management: Here to Stay

Every company, from an investment bank to a corner cafe needs to think about the risks its business is subject to. When suppliers don’t deliver, customers don’t pay, an earthquake hits or the cash register breaks down, the prepared business will survive.

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22 Jul 2009

Costs Have Come Down But Cross Border Activity in Europe Remains a Costly Business, According to Commission and Oxera Report

The costs of trading and clearing and settlement have fallen in general as a result of the introduction of MiFID and the Code of Conduct, but some problems remain to be tackled. There is significant cross border activity throughout Europe and, in general, the cost of this activity is higher than that for domestic transactions, according to a report commissioned by the European Commission and conducted by Oxera. However, this difference can largely be attributed to economies of scale, as investors investing in cross border markets will generally have lower levels of activity than domestic investors, says the report.

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21 Jul 2009

Majority of CDS Products Will Never be Centrally Cleared, Says Tabb Group FREE - A-Team Wire

16 Jul 2009

Investment in High Performance Technologies for Risk Management Proves Popular with RRIT Readers

This month’s Risk & Regulation IT reader poll spells good news for the vendor community: the majority of respondents are seriously considering investment in high performance technologies in order to achieve an enterprise-wide, holistic view of risk. Whether driven by regulatory, client or internal senior management pressure, 67% of readers involved in the poll are contemplating spending on this area in the near future.

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13 Jul 2009

UK Asset Managers Are Aware of Dangers of Not Aggregating Data But Standards Are Lacking, Says SimCorp

The UK asset management community is aware of the dangers posed by failing to adequately consolidate and aggregate their data but underlying problems remain, according to a recent report by risk management platform provider SimCorp and independent consultant Paul Miller. The problems are not to do with technology or organisation, explains Cath Rawcliffe, vice president of sales and marketing at SimCorp, but rather the lack of standardisation in the data space.

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13 Jul 2009

Increased Demand for Risk Analytics from Buy Side, Finds Northern Trust Survey

The institutional investor and investment management community is keen for more data and analytics around risk management, according to a recent survey by global custodian Northern Trust. Not only is risk a prime area of investment for banks, the buy side is also being forced to re-evaluate its approach to risk modelling and analytics.

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09 Jul 2009

Risk Management Needs to be Better Integrated Within Financial Institutions, Says Deloitte

Deloitte has added itself to the recent list of consultants to produce a risk management report, with the publication of its sixth global risk management survey. The survey, which involved 111 financial institutions from various geographies, highlights the serious need for the integration of a risk management culture into firms’ business drivers.

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03 Jul 2009

Risk Management Proves to be Big Business for Consultants and Vendors

The analyst and consultancy businesses are usually a good gauge of the more profitable areas of the market; where firms are willing to shell out a bit more to understand the particularities of a sector. Accordingly, this month has seen the publication of a number of reports on the area of risk management in the financial services industry: a clear money spinner for the third party services market. Risk & Regulation IT examines two such reports: Ernst & Young’s “Survey on Risk Management for Asset Management” and Celent’s “Enterprise Risk and Governance” report.

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30 Jun 2009

Edhec-Risk and the Prime Brokerage Group at Newedge Focus on Risk Models FREE - A-Team Wire

26 Jun 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

Compliance Has Risen up the Priority List Within Italian Institutions, Says SDA Bocconi

The compliance function has risen up the list in terms of importance within Italian financial institutions as a result of regulatory imperatives over the last two years, according to a recent report by Italian business school SDA Bocconi. The report, which was conducted in collaboration with vendor SIA-SSB and the Italian Compliance Association, Aicom, examines the evolution of the compliance function and risk in investment services over the course of the implementation of MiFID.

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11 Jun 2009

Operational Risk Management Market to Grow to US$1.68bn by 2013, Says Chartis Research

The global operational risk management technology market is due to grow to US$1.68 billion by 2013, according to a recent report by analyst firm Chartis Research. Despite the fact that the recent crisis has led the market to focus on many other areas of risk, Chartis Research believes operational risk will gain a greater foothold in the enterprise risk management endeavour over the next five years.

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05 Jun 2009

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