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An Interview with Erkka Pesonen, Director, ALM Risk Management and FTP, at UBS

Ahead of the 11th Annual Funds Transfer Pricing and Balance Sheet Management Conference, we spoke with Erkka Pesonen, Director of ALM Risk Management and FTP at UBS. Erkka works in the Group Treasury ALM team, responsible for FTP setting and methodology and interest rate risk hedging. Prior to his current role Erkka has worked in Treasury cash trading and Treasury funding roles at UBS. He has over ten years of Treasury

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Who Are the Champions in Horizon 2020?

Author: Nikolaos Floratos

This publication is a synopsis on which countries and organizations are the most successful ones in Horizon 2020 programme. We have analyzed 4190 H2020 projects and 7804 organizations that have been awarded an Horizon 2020 grant based on the data provided by the European Commission under Cordis on 24 June 2015.

Presentations and articles from EC officials and experts have been highlighting the low success rates in Horizon 2020 program

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NEW YORK – February 27, 2017 – Today, InvestOps and SimCorp released their findings from the 2017 benchmarking report, titled – “Optimizing Front to Back Office Investment Operations.” The report explores the compression of the front, middle, and back office and how this is redefining data and investment management systems.


This new report is based on a survey of 100 Heads of Investment Operations based in North America. The research prioritized buy side firms, including asset management firms,

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Considering the current climate is loaded with regulatory and market changes, funds transfer pricing frameworks must be adapted in such a way to account for this without losing competitive edge. In order to optimise the practice of FTP, banks need to understand how it can be implemented alongside evolving regulations and market changes. This marcus evans conference will show banks how to shape their FTP methodologies according to regulations such as the liquidity and capital regulations and appl

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Washington's Blog
Global Research, May 04, 2015

We Can’t Rein In the Banks If We Can’t Pull Our Money Out of Them

Martin Armstrong summarizes the headway being made to ban cash,  and argues that the goal of those pushing a cashless society is to prevent bank runs … and increase their control. What do you think?

The central banks are … planning drastic restrictions on cash itself. They see moving to electronic money will first eliminate the underground economy, but secondly

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Funds transfer pricing is under increasingly sharp focus. Financial institutions need to respond to Basel III, as well the Dodd-Frank Act in order to change the way their liquidity is managed and regulated. The efficiency, with which banks adapt their business strategy and their FTP model, will be a deciding factor in the future profitability of core product lines.

Christian Pichlmeier, CFA, Senior Vice President, Corporate Treasury, Institutional Clients Group at Citi answered a series of questi

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Receive a complimentary free copy of the widely regarded book " A Handbook on Asset Liability Management "
- Edited by Professor G. Mitra

Key speakers include:

INSURANCE - Teemu Pennanen, King’s College London, ex-Managing Director at QSA Quantitative Solvency Analysts Ltd. He has extensive experience of consulting and providing solution to the insurance industry.

PENSION - Michael Dempster (Cambridge Systems Associate), consultant to a number of global financial institutions and governments.

BANKI

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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

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