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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Implementation of the optional, challenging retail internal ratings basis approach as part of the Basel II capital adequacy requirements. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. [03 Jul 2008]
The SAP Solution For Basel II
White Paper The New Basel Capital Accord, also known as Basel II, is one of the banking industry's top priorities. Basel II is the basis for the minimum capital requirements for banks and was created in response to the tremendous growth in international... [03 Jul 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its low-latency network. The system will support the bank's need to handle hundreds of thousands of... [23 Jun 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley But a ruthless overhaul of poor banking systems is crucial to putting rogue traders out of business, argues Steve Boyle. By their very nature, financial markets encourage and... [15 Apr 2008]
Identity and Access Management - New Challenges for Banks
White Paper The new Basel capital accord introduced the notion of operational risk into the evaluation of the minimum capital requirements for banks. Identity and Access Management allows fine-grained management of user management processes. [10 Apr 2008]
Secure File Transfer In the Era of Regulatory Compliance
White Paper Increasing regulatory compliance mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, BASEL II and J-SOX are compelling companies to establish a management strategy that includes the file transfer process, integrates it into existing processes, and... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph
Photo During the train trip from Paris to Basel, Switzerland, the internet connection was not always reliable - perhaps owing to the number of laptop-wielding journalists testing it out. After several hours of browsing, checking email, testing Skype and... [28 Mar 2008]
Basel II: Impact on IT Systems & Testing
White Paper BASEL II (as it is known) is an update to the original Accord. This white paper gives an overview of the impact of the BASEL II accord on IT systems for international and national banks and illustrates the approach that needs to be taken to ensure... [24 Feb 2008]
London Stock Exchange injects competition into post-trade costs
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley The London Stock Exchange (LSE) plans to introduce a post-trade router to open up clearing services, improve stock liquidity and make algorithmic trading more viable. [04 Feb 2008]
Commerzbank gets ready for Sepa
News Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Commerzbank is using filtering technology to flag up suspicious payments as part of its preparations for the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), due to come into force on 28 January. [15 Jan 2008]
Estimating the Ad Hoc Horizon for TCP Over IEEE 802.11 Networks
White Paper This paper explores the hypothesis of an "Ad hoc horizon" for wireless multihop networks. This horizon is defined in terms of number of nodes and number of hops beyond which TCP based network services are not useful anymore. [14 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment Cheat Sheets Basel II MiFID Sarbanes-Oxley Not so, says Steve Boyle. The latest thinking in information processing could save the banks billions every year. Information is the basis of the banking system. [02 Jan 2008]
TCP Capture Avoidance in Wireless Networks Based on Path Length and Path Density
White Paper This paper proposes a distributed ingress throttling scheme for wireless networks based on path length and path density such that TCP fairness is guaranteed. To this end the paper introduces a model for the sustainable load permitted in the MAC... [26 Dec 2007]
A Path Density Protocol for MANETs
White Paper Knowing, i.e.measuring the "Path density" at sources of communications is essential to provide fair capacity distribution between sessions in multi-hop ad hoc networks. This paper proposes and has implemented PDP, a path density recording protocol. [26 Dec 2007]
Empirical Upper Bound on TCP Transmission Rate for Guaranteed Capture-Free Communications in Multi-Hop IEEE 802.11 Based Wireless Networks
White Paper This paper considers the well known problem of TCP capture in mobile ad hoc networks, which is an unfair distribution of network bandwidth between TCP flows. The conventional way of analysis of TCP performance in wireless networks is to consider... [26 Dec 2007]
