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Bank Technology News August 2010 Chris Kentouris |
Tech that Could Have Caught SocGen's Rogue One way to stop a rogue traders in their tracks involves monitoring unexplained changes in an individual's behavior or from the controlled norm by analyzing the emails, other digital communications and electronic records for their content as well as their broader context. |
Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
Societe Generale Fraud: A Timeline of Events Read on for a timeline of the events in mid-January 2008 that lead to the discovery of Jerome Kerviel's fraudulent activities at Societe Generale. |
Wall Street & Technology February 11, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
World's Biggest Bank Frauds Read on for a list of the world's four biggest bank frauds. |
Wall Street & Technology February 11, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
Is the Risk Manager to Blame for the Subprime Crisis and the Societe Generale Scandal? In the aftermath of the credit crisis and the Societe Generale scandal, the spotlight has fallen on the risk manager. But should we really be pointing the finger at this crucial, but often unpopular, figure? |
BusinessWeek June 24, 2010 Matlack & Smith |
Kerviel Says He Was 'Moronic' and Innocent Societe Generale had many chances to stop Kerviel, but that may not protect him from a guilty verdict. The former SocGen trader argues that his superiors encouraged him and looked the other way. |
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Gwen Moran |
Do Derivatives Need More Oversight? These securities have gotten a bad rap but new legislation may do more harm than good. |
Insurance & Technology February 11, 2008 Katherine Burger |
Financial Institutions' Risk Management Systems Are Challenged by Corporate Culture and Human Nature Risk management, or maybe the lack of it, already has become the story of the year in financial services. |
Wall Street & Technology November 23, 2009 Ivy Schmerken |
Derivatives Clearing Gives Congress Fits Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled. |
Wall Street & Technology November 27, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Equity Transactions Boom Across Global Exchanges As the global capital markets undergo a series of major structural changes, the number of equity transactions has exploded globally by an average increase of 44% from 2006 to 2007, according to a new report. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Randall Dodd |
Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2007 Dees Stribling |
The Dawning of Derivatives REIT and real estate derivatives are introduced as a new financial tool in the real estate world. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Wall Street & Technology May 29, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
The Need for Holistic Fraud Management Recent incidents prove that firms must take a holistic approach to risk management in order to effectively detect and prevent fraud. |
Wall Street & Technology June 18, 2007 Penny Crosman |
Technology Upgrades Improve Derivatives Processing The DTCC, SwapsWire, major broker-dealers and custodians, such as State Street, all are upgrading their technology to bring derivatives processes into the 21st century. |
Wall Street & Technology March 25, 2008 Ivy Schmerken |
InterContinental Exchange Acquires Yellow Jacket Software to Expand its Electronic Trading of OTC Derivatives Exchanges are moving into OTC derivatives as these instruments become more standardized and can trade on exchange-like electronic platforms. |
Finance & Development June 2010 Randall Dodd |
Municipal Bombs Local governments on both sides of the Atlantic found themselves in a financial mess after engaging in derivatives transactions. |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Behind the Scenes of the Market: Derivatives and Risk How risk is calculated and the way derivatives are really traded. |
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 Carol Matlack |
Societe Generale Tries to Stage a Comeback The French bank just announced its best quarter in two years, but it's still burdened by toxic assets. |
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken |
Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices. |
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003 |
The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation High-risk gambles like those that torpedoed Orange County, Gibson and P&G are far less likely than conservative plays meant to hedge against loss in underlying markets such as energy, commodities or currencies. |
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too. |
CFO May 1, 2011 CFO Readers |
"O Canada" Readers comment on America's banking woes and other topics. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2011 Cliff D'Arcy |
Rogue Trader Loses UBS $2 Billion Switzerland's banking giant admits to an unauthorized loss of nearly 1.3 billion pounds! |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2010 April Taylor |
Fraud Charges Aren't Goldman's Only Worry Will the company need another transformation? |
CFO June 1, 2003 Ronald Fink |
Natural Performers Companies are increasingly relying on natural hedges to juggle currency risks. They are forsaking derivatives and matching revenues and costs for the same currency or offsetting losses in one currency with gains in another. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Stop Demonizing Derivatives Derivatives didn't kill Wall Street; financial institutions did. |
CFO April 1, 2011 Robert Pozen |
A Three-Step Plan for CFOs How to help your audit committee work more effectively. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca |
Derivatives Return As much as derivative products have been shunned as 'weapons of mass destruction,' certain derivatives may become more important as investors discover their value as a way of potentially limiting or focusing risk exposure. |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 Anne Tergesen |
Should You Buy from an Adviser? Brokerage firms may have incentives to push securities in their inventories. |
Wall Street & Technology February 5, 2007 Ivy Schmerken |
The Buy Side Jumps on Board the Push to Automate OTC Derivatives Now that traditional buy-side firms and hedge funds are increasingly investing in credit derivatives, the industry is focusing on automating post-trade processes to reduce operational risk. |
Bank Technology News June 1, 2008 Rebecca Sausner |
SocGen Loss Lights a Fire Under Execs Financial services firms around the globe are now scrambling to examine their employee fraud detection processes and practices, and turning to the handful of tech vendors in the space to bring them up to speed. |
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2007 Ivy Schmerken |
Asset Managers Push Custodians to Offer Independent Pricing Services for OTC Derivatives The exponential growth of OTC derivatives is forcing custodians to provide independent valuation services to their institutional clients. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Schmidt & Brush |
Will Currency Derivatives Get a Pass on Oversight? Banks want them exempted. Geithner is caught between bankers and regulators on how much oversight to give currency derivatives. |
Wall Street & Technology February 14, 2006 Cory Levine |
DTCC Hires Derivatives Expert Derivatives processing authority Bill Stenning joined the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) as VP of business development. |
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
AIG: We Like Our Toxic Waste An outsider's take on AIG's risk. |
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 |
Get Yer Red-Hot Derivatives Here! The derivatives market is heating up, and IT spending on derivatives management will experience a steady increase over the next four years, according to a new study. |
Bank Technology News September 2009 John Adams |
Vetting Server Delays In 3-D Even the simplest of transactions can get lost in a sea of virtual servers and shared platforms, making it tough to locate and troubleshoot costly delays, reduce trading latency and ensure SLA compliance. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Berner & Carter |
Swiping Back At Credit-Card Fraud Bogus transactions are falling overall, but e-tailers are still feeling the pain. E-tail credit-card fraud is triple the rate of the brick-and-mortar world. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Financial Reform Slam the Derivatives Market? Will the freshly signed financial reform bill wreak havoc on the derivatives market? |
Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006 |
OTC Obstacles Eighty-five percent of respondents to a recent poll claim that data issues are the biggest obstacle to processing OTC derivatives. |
U.S. Banker March 2002 Man Yin Li |
Transfer That Risk! With more and more bankruptcies and defaults, many banks can protect themselves with credit derivatives. There are dangers in using them, but if used intelligently, they can be a boon to many banks... |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction Are Still Primed Six years after Warren Buffet called derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction" those weapons are still active, and their stockpiles are more heavily concentrated than before. |