Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Locking down liquidity
On October 5, the UK's Financial Services Authority released 09/16, Strengthening Liquidity Standards Policy Statement, the final version of the UK's long-awaited liquidity risk regulation. Carla Mangado explores how this will impact the back office and…
UK set for clamp down on bribery and corruption
Long seen as lagging behind other countries in the fight against corruption, the UK is now set to clamp down on bribery with tough new legislation.
Solvency II & risk management conference
Life & Pensions’ fourth annual Solvency II conference brought together a large number of leading industry figures at a critical point in the directive’s evolution
The liquidity lifeline
The Basel Committee intends to introduce internationally binding liquidity standards, to include both a requirement for a liquid assets buffer and longer-term structural funding constraints. How will the measures be calculated and what will the…
Torrential reign
It never rains but it pours. International negotiations over the best way to regulate banks and financial markets continue, but bankers had better be prepared because much of what has been discussed in recent months will find its way into
A shining example
In the oil and gas industry, there's a lot to lose if operational risk management isn't top notch - lives are at stake. Financial services firms would do well to imbue their op risk frameworks with the same sense of significance, says Victoria Pennington