The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has this week published its Financial Risk Outlook (FRO), which outlines the main risks and issues present in its operating environment, affecting firms, markets and consumers. The document sets out the regulator’s expectations for the industry in the post-crisis environment and directly calls for an investment in risk technology in particular.
McCreevy’s successor as the member of the European Commission responsible for Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier, this week discussed the risk management challenges inherent in tackling the economic "great leap backwards" that the industry has experienced post-crisis. Speaking at a dinner hosted by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) in London, Barnier elaborated on the priority of getting risk related regulation right in order to restore confidence in the European markets.
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There may be troubles ahead for the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with the impending departure of current CEO Hector Sants in the summer, but, in the meantime, the regulator has pledged to support the data vendor community in adapting to the new regulatory order. To this end, the regulator is strengthening its efforts around its independent software vendor (ISV) discussion group, which aims to provide vendors with a forum in which to air their issues.
The Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has criticised futures exchange ICE Futures US for its failings with regards to its compliance systems. In its recently published rule enforcement on the matter, the CFTC division claims that ICE staff cuts and a lack of investment in compliance automation meant that the exchange was unable to adequately comply with core principles relating to audit trail, trade practice surveillance, disciplinary and dispute resolution programmes.
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) was originally established as a forum to lead the charge towards a new Basel framework but in recent years it has become increasingly focused on the practical realities of risk management. Giovanni Carosio, deputy director general of the Bank of Italy who took over the reins as chairman of CEBS last September from Kerstin af Jochnick, recently elaborated on the regulatory body’s changing role and the position it feels the European Banking Association (EBA) should adopt in the building of a new IT infrastructure for regulatory data exchange in Europe.
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He may be on his way out the door, but UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief exec Hector Sants seems determined to deliver a few parting shots to ensure that financial services firms tackle their risk management failures. In order to boost its success in this endeavour, the regulator will be hiring another 460 staff members and will be looking for those with industry experience of dealing with internal risk management systems within the financial institutions it wants to police.
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