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Coming out of the financial crisis the banking industry has found itself under scrutiny with regards to its resilience and questions have been raised about financial institutions’ abilities to weather another storm. How good are your preparations in reality?

If you want to know what shape your crisis readiness is really in, you need to start by re-appraising your stress testing framework. The objective is to prepare for potentially disastrous conditions in advance – instead of picking up the piec

Interview with Houman B. Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School

Houman B. Shadab is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. He is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation whose research focuses on hedge funds, derivatives, and securitization. Professor Shadab is a director of the Center on Financial Services Law and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions.

marcus evans had the privilege to

The Partner Asset Facility

A presentation on ISO 31000 for banks.

A presentation that looks at ISO 31000 in the banking domain. Why ISO 31000 is compatible with Basel, why ISO 31000 can value-add a Basel risk framework.

The presentation attached to this [ link ] will be delivered at the ISO 31000 conference in Paris on 21st and 22nd of May 2012.

Managing a profitable balance sheet is more challenging than ever. With Basel III and the more immediate Dodd-Frank regulation on the horizon, a tool such as FTP is vital to ensure an effective centrally managed liquidity strategy. Post-crisis, whilst the economic situation is improving, allocating sufficient liquidity costs quickly and efficiently to the correct business-line is paramount.

Kent Westerbeck formed the Westerbeck Risk Management consulting company in 2007 after retiring from LaSall

One of the most important measures of a firm's performance is its return on assets. This is such a critical metric for businesses, that whole schools of thought have been created around the metric to allow a business to easily control and smooth its working capital costs.

There are actually three recognised models that are at the heart of a cash management exercise and they are loosely referenced as Miller-Orr, The Baumol Model and Stone. They are of course very similar in nature and nothing is u

Banking today is viewed upon by the customers it is designed to serve as sick. 

Theoretically bankers have lost the plot it seems but I am not really sure they ever had the plot to begin with, why is that?

Banking needs to move beyond Global banking to Global-Local or Glocal banking. It needs to find the WHY we bank rather than HOW.

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It is a time of clichés for banks as they currently find themselves caught in a Catch-22, stuck between a rock and a hard place. In the UK, government initiatives such as ‘Project Merlin’ have been put in place to encourage banks to lend more freely. At the same time, new regulations or initiatives such as Basel III, Recovery and Resolution plans and leverage limits are coming to the fore, increasing the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements for banks around the world. So how do banks walk

This guide offers an insight into the current hiring market in London, not only detailing salaries and benefits, but also the broader recruitment trends foreseen for the marketplace in 2012.

This salary and market report is indicative only. Please give your feedback in the feedback field below

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Cost cutting and better risk management remained high on the European financial services agenda at the recent World Economic Forum. Institutions worldwide are facing similar concerns, because of the ongoing instability in the current economic environment. Yet cost cutting initiatives and the move to further enhance risk management are often undertaken to the detriment of what customers today are looking for – innovation.

Regulation is intended to create transparency, but if not managed efficient

As last year drew to a close, the Peoples Bank of China cut the reserve requirement for local banks in an effort to swiftly ease funding liquidity conditions in the country.

New proposed rules for Asset Backed Securities have been released by the US regulatory agencies for comment. These rules are aimed at addressing the way in which banks securitize their loan portfolios and are a response to one of the main causes for the credit crisis in 2008.

What lies ahead for banks and investors?

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26 January 2011

Paul Clarke from eFinancialCareers