Data
FMX Connect announces relaunch
FMX Connect has relaunched its online commodity and energy data portal.
Data, data everywhere
Making sense of the vast streams of differently formatted data produced by the financial services industry every day is a recurring nightmare for risk managers and regulators. Efforts are now under way to standardise data formats, with Malaysia setting…
Cleaning up the buy side
Data management
CopperEye identifies data-retention issues
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Second-order uncertainty
The financial crisis has drummed home the dangers of basing analysis on unreliable data. Despite its amorphous character, risk managers must begin to increase their focus on second-order uncertainty, argues David Rowe
Mashups take root
The financial crisis revealed many banks did not have a complete view of risk across all parts of their business. Could 'mashups' allow banks to bridge gaps by pulling together data from multiple sources? By Donna Haws
Temenos launches intelligence system for fraud prevention
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Clients kept in the dark over data breaches, says survey
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Banks short of op risk experts and analysis
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Financial data market will be hit by Mifid, says CEPS chief
Chief executive at CEPS argues that the implementation of the Mifid will have a significant impact on the financial market data business.
Did You Lock the Door?
Are your outsourcers protecting your customers' data adequately? Here are the most overlooked security issues and how to address them.
Baseline's Basel II solution completes development stage
Baseline Capital Limited has announced completion of the development stage of its Basel II data pool solution.
Central banks seek more data on credit derivatives
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is going to ask dealers in the credit derivatives market to supply more information about their business, including information on who they are dealing with.
Operational risk versus credit risk: Similarities and differences
Many attempts have been made to adapt credit risk models to quantify operational risk. In this article, Gerrit Jan van den Brink of Dresdner Bank and KPMG's Thomas Kaiser compare op risk and specific credit risk models in terms of input data, methodology…
China - Meeting the competition
China's financial institutions have realised the need to apply best practice in managing risk, and have been implementing cutting-edge risk management systems. But there are challenges in obtaining reliable data, writes Clive Davidson.
Real option valuation and equity markets
Many non-financial assets can be viewed as ‘real options’ linked to some underlying variable such as a commodity price. Here, Thomas Dawson and Jennifer Considine show that the stock price of a well-known electricity generating company is significantly…
Op risk economic capital is 15%, says BIS study
Banks allocate an average of 15% of their economic capital for operational risk, according to a study released today by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Mark-it Partners puts it all on Red
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are negotiating the sale of their credit derivatives reference entity database, Red, to UK credit risk data company Mark-it Partners.
Component proponents
Principal component analysis is a widely used technique in finance but can be problematic when different data sets are grouped together. Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa show how to resolve this problem using a technique from biology called…
Equity to credit pricing
Default models
Beyond Basel II - operational risk management comes of age
Integrated, enterprise-wide, operational risk management can offer much more than just regulatory compliance.