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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. [03 Jul 2008]
When is U.S. Bank Lending to Emerging Markets Volatile?
White Paper Using bank-specific data on U.S.bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper: 1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S.banks engaging in foreign lending; and 2) econometrically... [03 Jul 2008]
Bank of Montreal Banks on Sun for Investment Risk Analysis
White Paper The challenge was to give Bank of Montreal's Market Risk Assessment Group the power to run faster and more complex simulations to better evaluate risks of the bank's portfolio. BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management, and... [03 Jul 2008]
Bank Exceptions to Broker-Dealer Regulation in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
White Paper The Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2001 adopted interim final rules addressing the bank exceptions to broker-dealer regulation in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The new rules will affect most banks and savings associations that enter... [03 Jul 2008]
Yapi Kredi Bank Upgrades Its Systems to Pave the Way for E-Business
White Paper Yapi Kredi Bank (YKB), one of Turkey's largest private banks, provides corporate and retail services through a variety of channels such as branch banking, automated teller machines (ATMs), point of sale (POS), credit cards, call centers and... [03 Jul 2008]
Greenpoint Bank Embraces Converse Software for Business Advantage Across Entire Value Chain
White Paper GreenPoint Bank needed to centralize the monitoring of its 110 servers. Built on an advanced, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy architecture for service level management, the Converse Software NimBUS solution enables GreenPoint Bank to define... [03 Jul 2008]
China's Largest Bank Protects Competitive Advantage Through Simplified and Secure IT Management
White Paper China Construction Bank (CCB) is one of China's largest banks with 14,250 branch outlets. To retain its market leading status, the bank must be able to deliver the best service to its customers, maximize shareholder value and offer excellent career... [03 Jul 2008]
BPM in Retail Banking Webinar Featuring Barclays Bank plc
White Paper This webcast will describe practical aspects of Barclays Bank plc BPM project, including how they advanced operational efficiencies, deployed business process management as a shared service, created common shared components and facilitated... [03 Jul 2008]
Yield Curve Modelling at the Bank of Canada
White Paper The results of these models are compared with those of a yield curve model used by the Bank of Canada for the last 15 years. The primary objective of this paper is to produce a framework that could be used to construct a historical database of zero... [03 Jul 2008]
Borrower Risk and the Price and Nonprice Terms of Bank Loans
White Paper This paper show that both the price and non-price terms of bank loans reflect observable components of borrower risk. Banks are in the business of lending to risky and hard-to-value businesses. As expected, riskier borrowers -- smaller borrowers... [03 Jul 2008]
Central Bank Design in General Equilibrium
White Paper We study the effects of alternative institutional arrangements for the determination of monetary policy in the context of a capital-theoretic, general equilibrium economy with a financial sector. In the absence of an institutional arrangement... [03 Jul 2008]
William Blair and Company Bank Gets Uptime it Needs to Serve Clients, Stay Productive
White Paper William Blair and Company is a Chicago-based, privately held company that provides investment advisory services to individuals and institutional clients. They required reliable systems operating 24x7 and a faster, more-efficient operating and... [03 Jul 2008]
Has HIPAA Got You Covered?
White Paper This paper provides background on the major HIPAA compliance issues and recommendations for immediate action by bank compliance officers. To understand the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, bank compliance officers should... [03 Jul 2008]
Success Story: Protecting Financial Information Assets
White Paper Very few bankers and IT professionals ever have the opportunity to work at a brand new bank - not a new building, but a new institution with a green-fields opportunity to introduce best practices from the start. [03 Jul 2008]
Achieving 100% Availability with Intel Architecture-Based Servers
White Paper In developing their new system, Fuji Bank followed the same procedures they had used successfully in creating high-availability mainframe systems. Fuji Bank found that system hardware and software were fully capable of meeting the 100% availability... [03 Jul 2008]
