Regulation
315 white papers and resources
Big data to disrupt current operating models within the financial industry
The recent global financial crisis has effectively forced firms to assess internal governance procedures and adopt a wider approach to risk management. However, the backward looking nature of traditional GRC means that it is solely concerned with preventing repetition of previous failings.
Stress Testing: Putting the Pieces Together to Solve an Increasingly Intricate Puzzle
The global financial crisis and the aftermath that continues to unfold have created a justifiable obsession with stress among bankers and supervisors. The sharper focus has made stress testing a key component of the evolving global regulatory framework covering risk control and capital discipline.
The De-Risking Dilemma
Wholesale de-risking by financial institutions may seem like a viable compliance strategy when dealing with certain customers, but in the long-term may cause more harm than good.
The ideal reference data utility
This video provides an insight into a recent survey conducted in August 2015 by WatersTechnology and sponsored by SmartStream that polled reference data operations professionals about the ideal utility. The survey explored issues such as how organizations choose a reference data utility.
Strategies for migration to the cloud in financial services
This white paper explores the current state of public cloud adoption by the financial services industry, the technology challenges they face over the next few years and suggests some strategies for navigating a path through public, private and hybrid cloud.
IFRS 9 in Asia-Pacific: The road to compliance – is there still time?
Since the beginning of the year, financial institutions, as a sector, have shifted focus to the different requirements for IFRS 9. In Asia-Pacific (APAC), however, unlike Europe’s well synchronized journey to IFRS 9 compliance, Asian countries are taking many different roads to compliance.
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.
Command and control: Establishing a formal data governance strategy
Most financial institutions recognize the value of data as an asset, although only a small minority have a mature data governance strategy in place. This white paper explores, where the market currently stands in relation to data governance and how organizations should proceed with data management.
Will your business practices come back to haunt you? Use technology to mitigate your chances of conduct risk
Conduct risk is not something that can be identified by applying a simple boilerplate. Each financial services business will have its own culture, customer base, product portfolio and marketing strategy, so the risks will to some extent be bespoke to the business and they may also be deep-rooted.
Battling fraud at the root cause: How cybercriminals bypass your security defenses and what you can do about it
This white paper provides an overview of how cybercriminals circumvent security measures at each stage of a transaction’s lifecycle — pre- login, during login and post-login — and offers strategies to help financial organizations combat malware-driven attacks.