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1. The Ernst & Young Business Risk Report
Source: Ernst & Young
Uploaded on: 22 Jul 2010
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In today’s business environment, conditions remain challenging for many, and risk retains its position high on every organization’s agenda. Businesses themselves are changing, which brings new risk horizons and, at the same time, they are grappling with the changes brought about by a post-downturn economy. The ability to anticipate threats, respond and continually adapt is as critical a part of the risk management process as it ever has been. The third in its series, our Business Risk 2010 report is part of an ongoing conversation about business risk — a conversation that has been taking place for several years, asking the question: are companies scanning their horizons and with what scope? In this report, we explore the global top 10 risks facing businesses that have emerged from our study, and we share the thinking of some of the leading industry-based and academic commentators to whom we have spoken.

2. Optimising Critical SOX & MAR Strategies in the Re/insurance Industry - Gonsalves Interview
Source: Marcus Evans
Uploaded on: 13 Apr 2010
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An interview with Judith Gonsalves, Director of Accounting Policy at Liberty Mutual

3. Mercuria Commodity Analysis, A Case Study
Source: CubeLogic
Uploaded on: 23 Mar 2010
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The Mercuria team had a requirement for a specialist tool to monitor commodity markets globally in order to assist their trading decisions. It required a large amount of data aggregation of the commodity market data with some specialist calculations and had to be highly flexible to service the changing demands of the trading desk.

 
Technical Papers
1. MULTI-DIRECTIONAL OPTIMISATION ON THE GPU
Source: Risk Care
Uploaded on: 18 May 2010
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RiskCare's Niels Stchedroff explains how the multi-directional technique - a powerful optimisation tool with portfolio management implications - is literally orders of magnitude faster on a graphical processing unit than on a central processing unit."

 
White Papers
1. 2010 EMEA Business Continuity Benchmark Report
Source: Marsh
Uploaded on: 15 Jun 2010
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In 2008, Marsh completed the first European wide Business Continuity Management (BCM) survey. This survey highlighted the growing acceptance of BCM throughout a wide range of organisations and the advantages that could be gained by integrating it into their organisations. In 2010, Marsh conducted another survey, using a similar question set but incorporating a wider array of responses from the Middle East. These results give an insight into the current state of the market as well as allowing the identification of trends over the past two years.

2. Razor White Paper: Achieving Accurate Value at Risk Calculations
Source: Razor Risk
Uploaded on: 13 May 2010
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Following the financial crisis of 2007/2008, the Value at Risk (VaR) calculation method, arguably the most broadly utilised method of risk management, has come under increasing levels of scrutiny for its failure to provide accurate results. This paper examines the reasons behind the perceived failure of risk management up to and during the economic downturn.

3. Is there a Solution to the Spreadsheet Dilemma?
Source: CubeLogic
Uploaded on: 23 Mar 2010
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Many investment banks and energy/commodity trading companies still use spreadsheets for many of the mission critical tasks such as market and credit risk reporting. This is despite the well know shortcomings of spreadsheets such as security, version control and the sheer amount of manual effort required to keep the spreadsheets up to date and loaded with current data. Spreadsheets are however universally accepted as tools that most people are familiar with and produce fast and cost effective bespoke solutions that do not require months of software development. This paper discusses an new alternative that has the benefits of a familiar spreadsheet but removes the inherent risks that spreadsheets bring.

4. Payment card processing – what you need to know to conform to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
Source: Advent IM
Uploaded on: 11 Nov 2009
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Organisations that transmit, store or process payment card details and that fail to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) face serious penalties and potential fines of £50K+, damage to brand reputation, loss of business and the risk of closure, says Mike Gillespie, Director at independent protective security consultancy, Advent IM (www.advent-im.co.uk). It’s an issue of great concern to many businesses and a topic much debated on business forums.

5. Facilities and Risk Management
Source: Advent IM
Uploaded on: 11 Nov 2009
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Economic and personnel resources are increasingly being cut back. Consequently, Facility Managers and Risk Managers are feeling the knock-on effect of having more responsibility placed upon their shoulders; security provision being one. Steve Garton, Director at Advent IM, outlines security issues facing these workers, highlights applicable physical security standards that need to be complied with and offers advice about ways security can be handled, irrespective of that worker’s skill-set or security knowledge.

6. Liquidity Risk Management
Source: Razor Risk Technologies
Uploaded on: 11 Nov 2009
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From October 2009, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) requires all UK banks, building societies and investment firms to report their liquidity risk. Given the level of detail, frequency and stress testing requirements, as well as the implementation deadlines, the new rules present a significant challenge to most financial institutions.

7. Ready for the recovery
Source: McKinney Rogers
Uploaded on: 16 Sep 2009
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Foreword from Damian McKinney The world’s economy has been hit by a recession of rare severity, and every sector has suffered. Happily, fears of a repeat of the Great Depression were not realized and, at the time of writing, the debate is now more about the prospect of green shoots and whether they have appeared. As performance and leadership consultants, McKinney Rogers is interested in whether, faced with such dramatic chaos in the global economy, business directors were able to react quickly, review priorities and implement effective measures.

8. Liquidity Risk
Source: RiskMetrics
Uploaded on: 17 Jul 2009
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Though we are by now accustomed to the exhortations to measure liquidity risk or define a liquidity risk appetite, there are still few precise definitions of what liquidity risk actually is. In a recent paper Acerbi and Scandolo propose a formalism that links asset liquidity, in the form of market depth, with funding liquidity, in the form of an institution's specific needs, and revisits even the notion of portfolio valuation. The paper being somewhat abstract, we summarize its ideas and provide some discussion in a non-technical setting.

9. Reforming Financial Markets
Source: HM Treasury (Crown copyright)
Uploaded on: 09 Jul 2009
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The world economy has been hit by a severe financial crisis, resulting in the worst global economic downturn for over 60 years. Triggered by difficulties in the US housing market that exposed the way that banks and other lenders had been underestimating real risks for too long, the crisis spread so quickly throughout global financial markets that banking systems around the world were severely destabilised. As a result, the impact has spread beyond the financial system, hitting economic growth, prosperity and jobs throughout the world.

10. Optimization Applications in Finance
Source: ILOG
Uploaded on: 19 Jun 2009
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The recent crisis in the finance, securities, banking, and insurance industries has focused executive attention on near-term issues of survival and recovery, especially managing risk, while diverting attention from, improving operational efficiency, and building customer relationships. Yet these latter factors remain important competitive advantages for leading companies in the financial sector.

11. Enterprise-wide, Cross-Asset Risk Management Takes Charge
Source: Sapient
Uploaded on: 28 Jan 2009
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The unprecedented events impacting global financial markets in recent months have underscored the need for firms to review their current practices and develop an enterprise vision for risk management as a business imperative. If firms are to implement an effective risk management infrastructure they need to conduct a systematic review of all risk processes, policies and systems—from C-level, to trading, to operations.

12. Can Firms Prepare in Advance for a Major Default in the Market?
Source: SunGard Adaptiv
Uploaded on: 22 Sep 2008
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Over the last week, seismic events have fundamentally altered the capital markets landscape. Weary eyed risk professionals have spent 15 hour days answering a multitude of management concerns: How exposed are we? Could this have been foreseen? Would it have made a difference?

13. Cross-Regulation Compliance
Source: CheckFree
Uploaded on: 12 May 2008
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Embracing the Paradigm Shift from "Necessary Evil" to "Pervasively Achievable" - Realizing Operating Efficiency, Risk Mitigation and Compliance Across the Enterprise

14. FSA Data Security in Financial Services Report
Source: Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Uploaded on: 30 Apr 2008
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Firms’ controls to prevent data loss by their employees and third-party suppliers

15. Annual Risk Software Report
Source: allaboutrisk.com
Uploaded on: 30 Apr 2008
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The inaugural Annual Risk Software report details the latest offerings from risk and compliance vendors including new features and functionality that will be introduced to their risk offerings in 2008.

16. Towards Comprehensive Simulation of Complex Credit Structures
Source: SunGard
Uploaded on: 20 Feb 2008
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The last five years has seen an enormous increase in focus on the subject of credit. This focus has ranged from the creation and use of credit-based derivatives, the role of credit rating agencies and the measurement, modelling and pricing of credit risk.

17. Internet Security Threat Report
Source: Symantec
Uploaded on: 26 Nov 2007
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The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report offers analysis and discussion of threat activity over a six-month period. It covers Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, Phishing, spam and security risks as well as future trends. The twelfth version of the report, released September 17, 2007, is now available.

18. IT Risks
Source: Symantec
Uploaded on: 26 Nov 2007
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Business risks can range from everyday operational shortcomings to rare cataclysmic failures. Over the past decade, Information Technology (IT) systems have become critical to every aspect of business resulting in a level of dependence on IT not seen in the past. As a result, IT Risk, once a minor component of operational risk, is emerging as a major hazard for organizations to identify and manage.

19. A Balanced Approach to MiFID Compliance
Source: Symantec
Uploaded on: 09 Nov 2007
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As the November 2007 deadline aproaches for compliance with the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the financial press is sounding an alarm about compliance costs. And many financial services firms are delaying their implementation of compliance programs, hoping for a reprieve.

20. Event Horizon - Operational Risk Event Types
Source: RiskBusiness
Uploaded on: 23 Oct 2007
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Rick Cech takes a second look at what makes up operational risk event types, and asks if there is a more advanced way to define them

21. Building shareholder value by building a culture of risk awareness
Source: GARP
Uploaded on: 23 Oct 2007
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Protecting shareholder value by ensuring that a company's risks are competently managed is an important responsibility of any chief executive officer (CEO), a responsibility that is increasingly acknowledged by the appointment of a chief risk officer (CRO).

 
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