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About IBM Watson® Financial Services
IBM is working with organizations across the financial services industry to use IBM Cloud, cognitive, big data, RegTech and blockchain technology to address their business challenges. Watson Financial Services merges the cognitive capabilities of Watson and the expertise of Promontory Financial Group to help risk and compliance professionals make better informed decisions to manage risk and compliance processes. These processes range from regulatory change management to specific compliance processes, such as anti-money laundering, know your customer, conduct surveillance and stress testing.
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The Future of Banking: A Financial Concierge for Everyone
As customers take their transactions from the branches to the digital channels, banking has become less and less personal. This white paper discusses the advantages banks can realise by utilising conversational banking.
Data – the new natural resource
This white paper aims to help you make data-driven decisions with actionable insights to deliver the best possible customer experience. It further provides 4 tips for better engaging your customers.
Tailoring hybrid cloud for banking – Designing the right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth
This white paper explores the specific intentions, opportunities and concerns of banking leaders around the world regarding hybrid cloud adoption. It identifies alternative scenarios and provides a practical set of recommendations to accelerate and strengthen bank strategies for hybrid cloud.
A layer above: Gauging cloud's latest promise for financial services applications
Cloud technology’s presence is booming, yet its adoption has mainly been incremental. Based on research conducted by IBM in association with Risk.net, this whitepaper explores firms’ general progress towards cloud transformation and what factors are likely to accelerate cloud adoption.
Smarter thinking around financial crime prevention
This white paper assesses the key challenges and potential risks of current anti-money laundering and customer due diligence processes, and discusses the opportunity for artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies to drive a step-change in efficiency.
The future of compliance - How cognitive computing is transforming the banking industry
This white paper is designed to help financial institutions efficiently identify and effectively manage their global compliance requirements. With regulations increasing and fines for non-compliance in the billions, financial institutions must transform compliance management.
Empowering the first line of defense with cognitive capabilities and enhanced user experience
This white paper looks at redefining GRC - empowering the first line of defense and delivering business value – with next-gen AI technology. It further explores why financial institutions are turning to AI-powered compliance solutions.
Bracing for impact - Facing the challenges posed by IRRBB
This white paper explores the IRRBB compliance challenge. It further discusses how IBM can leverage its insight into these challenges by offering a technology-based solution addressing the diverse conditions in which financial institutions operate.
Pulling it all together – Challenges and opportunities for banks preparing for FRTB regulation
This white paper discusses the key challenges and opportunities facing banks as they prepare to implement the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book standard. It further examines how data aggregation and reporting tools can significantly aid compliance.
Speaking as one - Convergence in Basel standards will require banks to rethink their risk infrastructures
This white paper explores an enterprise system capable of efficiently supporting the FTRB and internal model approaches in parallel, along with enhancements to their risk governance and reporting.
Risk Analytics & Data Management - Q&A with IBM's Curt Burmeister
Curt Burmeister is Head of Research Innovation and Financial Engineering for IBM Risk Analytics. In this exclusive video Curt discusses risk analytics and the importance of data management.
Cognitive Computing and Data Challenges - Q&A with IBM's Diane Reynolds
Diane Reynolds is Chief Data Scientist at IBM Industry Solutions for the financial services sector. In this exclusive video Diane discusses the cognitive computing capabilities that IBM is currently developing.
Regulation & Compliance - Q&A with IBM's Grace Brasington
In this exclusive video Grace Brasington (Vice President, Risk and Compliance, IBM Watson) discusses the key risk and regulatory compliance issues faced by many of today's organisations. The video further discusses the solutions being built to help organisations overcome these issues.
Exploring a new frontier - Using cognitive technology to strengthen credit risk management
In relation to credit specifically, this white paper aims to strengthen a bank’s overall credit risk management strategy. It explores how organisations can use cognitive techniques to become more agile competitors in an increasingly demanding credit landscape.
IBM Regulatory Compliance Analytics - Cognitive computing can help banks streamline operations and reduce regulatory compliance cost
This white paper explores the challenges of achieving sustainable regulatory compliance. The paper further explains how cognitive computing can help banks streamline operations and reduce regulatory compliance costs.
Winning the face-off against fraud: How the most effective financial institutions are outthinking the bad guys
This white paper breaks down financial crime and addresses the challenges today’s institutions face in fighting these crimes. It further identifies current capabilities, successes and best practices in controlling financial crime.
IBM Counter Financial Crimes Management: Gain superior clarity on identities and relationships linked to financial crime activities with entity analytics
This white paper explores financial crime, including anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing and various types of fraud. The paper further discusses how organisations can become better equipped to meet regulatory requirements and prevent financial crimes before they occur.
Fighting new torrents of fraud attackers
This white paper examines how traditional cyber-crime and fraud prevention techniques fall short, and explains why organisations must develop more sophisticated ways to thwart such attacks.
FRTB: is your bank on track?
This infographic looks at the operational impacts of implementing new measures and new technologies, and the expected impact on regulatory capital requirements.
IBM Counter Financial Crimes Management for Banking
This white paper addresses cybercrimes, fraud and anti-money laundering. It will explore how organizations can harness powerful arrays of technologies and techniques to fight an effective multifaceted, long-term war against financial crime.
Webinar: A risk-based performance pipe dream?
In this IBM-sponsored webcast, a panel of industry experts will discuss the obstacles facing risk-based performance management and Peyman Mestchian, managing partner, Chartis will review findings of a new study on risk-based performance management (one of several research papers in Chartis' The…
Next-generation governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
This white paper explores the emerging GRC challenges in the regulatory and business environments. It further discusses how the next-generation of GRC is evolving to suit the new changes business needs.
Credit risk management: Collateral, covenants and risk review
Credit risk management only begins with the approval of a loan. The ongoing processes of managing collateral, loan covenants, and monitoring the borrower’s financial condition are key to ensuring that the bank is in the best position to minimize its loss, should the borrower encounter issues.
Partially cloudy: the benefits of hybrid deployment models
Financial institutions today are finding their businesses becoming increasingly heterogeneous and, in response, are seeking greater flexibility in their risk management systems and practices.
Chartis RiskTech Quadrant®: Enterprise GRC Solutions 2015
Business process automation capabilities provide real-time event escalation, automated risk processes,and streamlined remediation of issues and action items. Loss-event data collection allows risk managers to track loss incidents and near misses, record the amounts, and determine root causes.
KLP empowers the front and middle office with advanced risk analytics
When the future financial security of more than 700,000 people depends on the astute fund management decisions of 58 asset managers, it’s vital to put all the relevant risk-related data at their fingertips.
Practical considerations for ORSA modelling
This paper outlines three key areas of the ORSA requirements, for which we observe a need for further improvement to actuarial modelling techniques. The ORSA guidance establishes that an ORSA report should contain analysis that includes:a) A forward looking assessment of risk and solvency levels…
Improved decision-making and business insight using a holistic ALM solution
This white paper outlines a more holistic approach to ALM modeling that captures a detailed view of both the assets and liabilities and the interactions between them in a common framework.
Webinar - Collateral and counterparty tracking - the practical challenges of the new margin regime for non-cleared trades.
FREE webinar: 'Collateral and counterparty tracking: The practical challenges of the new margin regime for non-cleared trades.'