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Information Security Best Practices: Understanding Government & Industry Guidelines: This RSA Security webcast, recorded in March 2005 and now available on demand, features presentations by Rich Mogull, Research Director for Gartner, and Laura Robinson, Compliance Analyst for RSA Security, on topics related the regulatory landscape and how laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel II, OFAC, and others impact information security....; Tags: information security, RSA Security Inc., Basel II, HIPAA, regulatory compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Webcast, compliance, industry; White papers
Creating a Dynamic Foundation for Basel II Compliance: The client is a Midwestern U.S. commercial banking subsidiary with $30 billion in assets, which faced a number of obstacles in gathering and organizing the information needed to meet the requirements of more granular and objective data for determining the capital required to meet credit and operational risks. Basel II...; Tags: Banking, Business intelligence, BearingPoint Inc., commercial lending, commercial banking, Basel II, enterprise performance management, performance management, asset, financial; Case studies
Mastering Bank Mechanics - Making Operational Risk Management a Value Driver: The New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) requires that banks address operational risk. In fact, banks first developed operational risk management programs to build shareholder value. The inclusion of operational risk in Basel II came later. But because operational risk is now a compliance issue, many banks are approaching it...; Tags: Financial services, Strategy, SECURITY, Accenture Ltd., Basel II, bank, risk management, risk, compliance, shareholder; White papers
AXA Bank Reduces Risk With SAS and Improves Its Portfolio Management: Risk is an important parameter that must be considered with granting credit. It is also an issue recently addressed by Basel II regulations. While many other banks have viewed these rules as a constraint, Belgium-based AXA Bank understood from the start that these new regulations could also generate business opportunities....; Tags: Financial services, Strategy, Basel II, SAS Institute, credit risk management, bank, regulation, knowledge, risk management, equity; Case studies
Implementing Operational Risk Management for Basel II Compliance: International Financial Services Company: An international financial services company offering investment servicing products, asset administration and other fiduciary services needed to implement Basel II-compliant operational risk management processes and systems throughout its organization. The institution, based in North America, turned to BearingPoint for multifaceted operational risk management support. BearingPoint helped the company implement Basel...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, Basel II, risk management, BearingPoint Inc., asset, financial, financial service; Case studies

Basel II: Burden Or Opportunity?: Savvy banks know the price is worth it: Banks that embrace rather than resist Basel II, the mammoth proposal designed to control operational and credit risk, will claim a greater competitive advantage in the marketplace, say technology analysts. And those banks that move beyond compliance will not only reap higher...; Tags: Financial services, Bank of America Corp., Basel II, bank, compliance, competitive advantage, shareholder; White papers
Basel II Yields Increased Focus on Managing Operational Risks: Although proposed international bank capital rules are still being finalized, the banking industry already is working toward compliance with the new proposals. The paper depicts that the new accord revises the rules for allocating capital for credit risk and introduces a new capital allocation for operational risk. It aims to...; Tags: Protiviti, Basel II, bank, risk, allocation, compliance; White papers
ING Group: ING Group is a global financial institution of Dutch origin, active in the field of banking, insurance and asset management. Substantial changes in the financial and regulatory environment called for banks to revise their credit risk management strategies. A management model based on Risk Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC) was...; Tags: Financial services, Capgemini, ING Group, Basel II, credit risk management, asset management, financial, insurance, banking, bank, asset, strategy, environment; Case studies
Bouwfonds Integrates Basel II: Bouwfonds is one of the biggest real estate companies in the Netherlands. It requested Capgemini to implement the requirements set by Basel II in relation to risk management, organizational setup and IT systems. Capgemini proposed a three phase approach to prepare the organization for the Basel II implementation. As a...; Tags: Basel II, Capgemini, risk management, real estate, information technology; Case studies
Building an Implementation Road Map: Taking a Holistic Approach to Risk Management: The impending introduction of new capital requirements resulting from the Basel II Accord is leading to dramatic changes in the way major financial institutions assess, monitor and control risk. A major North American direct bank turned to EDS for assistance in developing its strategy to become Basel II-compliant. EDS' risk-management...; Tags: Financial services, Basel II, Electronic Data Systems Corp., bank, risk management, monitor, team, strategy, tool; Case studies
Wake-Up Call - Banks Now Actively Seeking Solutions to Basel II Compliance: After a period of hesitancy, banks are coming to grips with the broad implications of the Basel II Accord, the most radical set of banking regulations since the original Accord of 1988. Organizations that became Basel II-compliant early gained real competitive advantages through superior capital efficiency, data and risk management...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, Accenture Ltd., Basel II, risk management, bank, financial reporting, decision-making, banking, competitive advantage, brand, financial; White papers
Banking on Basel II - Seizing Advantage From Unavoidable Investments: Sound management of the credit and operational risks inherent in lending money are central to any bank in today's turbulent financial markets. With the increasingly interlinked, cross-border nature of the global economy, banks that fail to control adequately their exposures risk undermining not only their own viability but also that...; Tags: Financial services, Financial accounting, Accenture Ltd., bank, banking, Basel II, system architecture, financial market, wall, financial; White papers
The Business Case for Basel II: The proposed Basel II accord, which international banking regulators expect to complete this year, would require banks to improve the way they match their capital reserves with the risks they take. Some European banks have already begun to comply with the draft standards, but banks in emerging markets are lagging...; Tags: Financial services, McKinsey & Co., Basel II, bank, emerging market, business case, banking; White papers
IIB Bank Qualifies for Basel II: SAS Risk Management for Banking Releases Huge Capital Assets: IIB Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brussels-based KBC NV has been active in the Irish market since 1973. The challenge put forth by the company was to implement Basel II in home loans. SAS' experience in risk management was vital in establishing the appropriate business definitions and translation...; Tags: Financial Planning, Basel II, risk management, SAS Institute, banking, asset; Case studies
Master Customer Data Integration: Regulatory Compliance Meets Revenue Generation in Financial Services: All banking, insurance, and capital markets firms face regulatory requirements for managing their master customer data, yet few have taken advantage of this authoritative source of information for new revenue generation. However, that's beginning to change, as a growing number of firms are recognizing the potential of using their...; Tags: Financial Planning, Regulations, IBM Corp., Basel II, data integration, Webcast, line of business, regulatory compliance, financial, financial service, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, banking, compliance, insurance, industry; Webcasts 2007-09-27
The HP Enterprise Risk Management Solution: This paper explains HP Enterprise Risk Management Solution, a pre-integrated, prepackaged solution including a comprehensive physical data model, a high-performance database server, and consulting and implementation services. This turnkey solution enables ready access to the often disparate, enterprise-wide information that financial institutions need in order to meet Basel II requirements....; Tags: Financial services, Basel II, risk management, allocation, Hewlett-Packard Co., consulting, best practice, bank, financial, server; White papers 2006-11-01
Enterprise Risk Management And Improved Shareholder Value: The intent of this paper is to raise awareness of enterprise risk management as a strategy for complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and also for improving shareholder value based on improved performance. These two objectives have converged with previously unconnected initiatives driven by Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations of...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Basel II, risk management, SOA, shareholder, performance, strategy, financial; White papers 2006-09-05
Financial Compliance and Data Quality: This White Paper considers the challenges that Basel II and other compliance initiatives pose for Financial Services Providers (FSPs). It contends that far from being a "Compliance chore," Basel II presents genuine opportunities for FSPs to increase profitability by improving their business strategies and pricing products and deals more accurately....; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Informatica, financial services company, Basel II, financial service, financial, compliance, data quality, data analysis, business strategy, pricing strategy; White papers 2006-04-11
Applying Robust Methods to Operational Risk Modeling: In 2001, the Basel Committee of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) released new regulatory guidelines on operational risk that have been finalized in 2004, BIS (2004). Since then, the financial industry has been directing substantial effort into developing qualitative and quantitative framework for the operational risk management. Several books...; Tags: Research & Development, Strategy, Financial services, University of California, regulatory guideline, modeling, Basel II, risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, bank, technique, financial, industry; White papers 2005-12-31
IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II: Financial institutions are facing a series of related risk and compliance challenges. These include Basel II and IFRS/IAS. The pace of change driven by the compliance challenges will be different across financial institutions. However, there is now a general recognition that the long term direction of aligning economic and...; Tags: Financial services, IBM Corp., Basel II, financial company, compliance, financial, data warehouse, banking, asset; White papers 2005-12-01