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Receive a complimentary free copy of the widely regarded book " A Handbook on Asset Liability Management "
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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.

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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.

Karin Bergeron is a trader on the CVA desk at Scotiabank. She is responsible for pricing and hedging CVA as

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Virtualization is becoming the new norm for enterprise data centers. It's also a key technology that can help you get to the cloud-and these days, the cloud is top of mind for most IT managers. If cloud is at the top of your agenda, you're probably lookin

Download this full Benchmark Report 2012 analysis and learn best practices on how your business can ensure money is not leaking away undetected. 

The report is based on analysis of 10.25 million individual expense claims from more than 200,000 UK based employees over the past three years. The analysis reveals areas where businesses continue losing money and how best practices can be implemented. According to the report for every £100 a UK business paid out in expenses last year, nearly £10 was s

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Project change management involves new IT systems, new products, and new markets, or reacting to a change in the business environment, such as regulatory or competitive actions. Project risk management is about identifying new risks or changes in the threat level of existing business processes. The challenge for project managers is how to get teams, functional areas, business processes, systems, and vendors aligned to new goals; moreover, how to get the needed transparency into the activities th

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The Chancellor George Osborne has warned the European Union that Britain will refuse to sign up to "idiotic" proposals under Basel III.

George Osborne has warned the European Union that Britain will refuse to sign up to "idiotic" proposals that would water down tough international rules on bank capital. 

This is a very concerning development and quite astounding actually. Let's ponder on the drop out of the UK from Basel III, just as a idea for a moment: [click here to continue reading]

Mid-April I was lucky to get to the Global Derivatives Trading and Risk Management conference. It is the world's biggest annual event devoted to financial derivatives. In the past few years, the conference was held in Paris; for a change, this year it took place in Barcelona.

The conference was packed with talks, round tables and networking breaks. To help the delegates make the most of it, each day of the conference was split in four streams running in parallel. Each stream was covering a specif

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

Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core - their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements.

In addition, organizations tend to focus on detective controls rather than preventive measures when it comes to database security.

By contrast, Forrester finds that by implementing a c

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

Risk and Issue are two words that are often confused when it comes to their usage. Actually there is some difference between them. The word ‘risk’ is used in the sense of ‘chance’. On the other hand, the word ‘issue’ is used in the sense of ‘matter’.

Uh-Oh!  This is a show-stopper.  We can’t complete the project on time because the server needed won’t be available for another month! What can we do now?

This is not a new problem for Project Managers to have encountered. Is this a risk or an issue? 

The goal of every ERM program is to assess material risk down to where the risk activity takes place, which typically means extending to front line management, and aggregate this information to an objective, accurate, and holistic picture applicable for each stakeholder, including the board. However without ERM software, risk management programs cannot reach this level.

With the high cost of traditional licensing for ERM/GRC software, combined with the skepticism among senior management on what

Following the recent launch of Strategy & Risk Studio, Manigent have released a lite version of the application to allow users to download the product free of charge! 

Strategy & Risk Studio is a one-of-a-kind application enabling consultants and practitioners to design and define an organisation’s enterprise performance management, enterprise risk management and/or strategy and risk management models. The tool is based on the Risk-Based Performance Management approach, which integrates best prac

When it comes to central clearing houses and regulation, it has been a hive of activity this year.

Literally every jurisdiction is in the midst of trying in someway to fit swap contracts from the OTC domain into a clearing house. It appears however, that some clearing houses seem to be having better luck at doing this than others. 

For those interested in a quick update of global developments, please follow this link.

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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