Financial Risk Management

This network brings together professionals involved in the oversight and management of their company's financial risks and exposures as well as solution vendors, in order to discuss risk issues including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk and commodity price risk, among others.

Richard Bennett CEO at Razor Risk

ISDA Insights from Afar: Examining Key Agenda Items

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) annual general meeting takes place in Tokyo this week. The event serves as a platform for insightful discussions, strategic collaborations, and the exchange of ideas surrounding the latest trends, challenges, and innovations in risk management. While we couldn’t be in attendance this yea...

16 April 2024 /regulation /markets

Richard Bennett CEO at Razor Risk

Exploring the Global Impact of the 2023 US Banking Crisis

It is around a year since Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic failed, and while its effects were by no means as far reaching as those in the global financial crisis over 15 years ago, it has sent substantial repercussions throughout the industry, its regulators, and governing bodies. Here, we take a look at some of the global r...

18 March 2024 /regulation /wholesale

Raktim Singh Senior Product Leader at Infosys

Why Do We Need Strong Resilient Financial System

Resilience is a process and an outcome of effectively adjusting to life's challenges and adversities, specifically through the exhibition of mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility, as well as the ability to endure internal and external pressures. Organizational resilience pertains to the capacity of a business to proactively foresee, prepa...

02 January 2024 /security /regulation

Mark Nutt Senior Vice President, International Sales at Veritas

How Financial Institutions Can Navigate the ‘Operational Resilience' imperative

Whether your source of news is the FT, the BBC or the Daily Mail, headlines of data related business outages, and associated credibility damage are on the rise. From data outages to increasingly audacious ransomware attacks on all levels of public and private organisations– data management has become a mainstream topic and highly visible.   Today...

06 December 2023 /security

Jeremy Chen Senior Director of Product Management at DataVisor

Banks: Real-Time Fraud Considerations to Maximize the Benefits

The anticipation surrounding instant and real-time payments in the U.S. has captured the attention of financial experts in more ways than one. With the Federal Reserve's launch of their FedNow Service this month, banks and financial institutions are both excited to reap the benefits and wary of the potential risks. When implemented well, banks and...

27 July 2023 /retail /crime

Sheridon Glenn Global VP, Strategic Markets & Initiatives at Guidewire

Take the holistic insurance model a step further: Data lakes integrated with artificial intelligence

In my previous blog, I covered how insurance analysis has moved on from traditional methods to holistic models. These models allow insurers to better assess risks and losses by being able to view their entire portfolio in a non-siloed way. This allows insurers to make better use of the data they hold and provide more proactive support to their cu...

19 July 2023 /inclusion

Stan Cowan 

How to Solve Check Fraud

Check fraud is a persistent issue, even in our rapidly evolving digital world. The crime may seem almost antiquated, but it poses a real threat to both individuals and businesses. With this in mind, we'll delve into understanding check fraud, its various forms, the impact it has, and most importantly, the preventive measures that can be taken. Che...

07 June 2023 /regulation /crime

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

3 Emerging Data Challenges in Credit Management (According to McKinsey)

In recent years, financial institutions have increased their adoption of data and new technologies to manage credit portfolios. In fact, McKinsey’s recent survey of financial institutions says there is significant progress in using new data and techniques for credit portfolio management. But it also shines a spotlight on the challenges that remai...

23 March 2023 /regulation /retail

Sheridon Glenn Global VP, Strategic Markets & Initiatives at Guidewire

Two kinds of knowledge; what we know, and what we know how to find

The number and severity of natural disasters continue to rise, with more flooding, hailstorms, wildfires, tornadoes and hurricanes on the horizon. Research from Munich Re estimates that hurricanes and floods could total $120bn in insurance losses in 2022, which clearly impacts the livelihood of those in the areas affected, and consequently also...

21 March 2023 /inclusion

Alex Kwiatkowski Director, Global Financial Services at SAS

Early lessons from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: from doyen to disaster

5,821 days. That’s the length of time that separates Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse and the failure of real estate investment trust New Century in 2007, notably the first domino to fall in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-08. Last week’s events represent a sobering reality check. In 2023, banks can still be broken, collapsing spectac...

17 March 2023 /regulation /markets