Risk

After a decade of focusing on compliance with regulatory mandates, Banks are back at fixating on technology innovation. The reason is obvious – over the last five years, Silicon Valley majors…

Financial Risk Management as it pertains to different industries – Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance – has been one of the most discussed topics in this blog. The business issues…

“When models turn on, brains turn off.” – Dr. Til Schuermann, Formerly Research Officer in the Banking Studies function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Currently Partner at Oliver Wyman…

I had the recent honor of being interviewed by Nick Ismail, editor at Information Age UK. We discussed IT trends driving financial services worldwide. For this week’s blogpost, I wanted to…

“The recession of 2007 to 2009 was still the most painful since the Depression. At its depths, $15 trillion in household wealth had disappeared, ravaging the pensions and college funds…

(Image Credit – ENC Consulting) Why Systemic Financial Crises Are a Broad Failure of Risk Management… Various posts in this blog have catalogued the practice of  risk management in the financial…

Regulatory Risk Management evolves… The Basel Committee of supranational supervision was put in place to ensure the stability of the financial system. The Basel Accords are the frameworks that essentially govern the…

THE STATE OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES IT ARCHITECTURE… This blog has time & again discussed how Global, Domestic and Regional banks need to be innovative with their IT platform to constantly evolve…