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Feeling the stress

Banking Technology - 18 May 2009

One sure sign of notoriety is having a form of risk management named in your honour. For market and credit,...

Making Web 2.0 projects work In today's economic climate

Banking Technology - 17 April 2009

Up until the economic downturn, Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) seemed to be on everyone's lips. Banks across...

Leadership lessons to put the fighting spirit back in your team

Banking Technology - 15 April 2009

The protests around the G20 summit and the march on the City will give banks' hard-working IT team one more...

Comment: Be afraid, be very afraid

Banking Technology - 08 April 2009

The FSA responded to the crisis in liquidity of the financial system by issuing a long-awaited Consultation Paper in December...

Asset managers need to reduce costs

Banking Technology - 08 April 2009

Time changes everything. What was once state of the art becomes a cumbersome nuisance at some point. The explosion of...

Tech Brief: Using GPUs to speed applications

Banking Technology - 08 April 2009

The idea of harnessing the compute power of a Graphics Processing Unit (think of the video card found in a...

Tech Brief: Understanding and preventing data breaches in the financial services sector

Banking Technology - 08 April 2009

In 2008, Verizon Business published a Data Breach Investigations Report, drawing information from over 500 forensic investigations involving 230 million...

Tech Brief: Level playing field

Banking Technology - 09 March 2009

Recent events within the capital markets have highlighted a long-ignored tension within risk management. As credit deteriorates, markets make huge...

Tech Brief: Risk management can strengthen your business

Banking Technology - 09 March 2009

Confidence is at an all-time low amongst businesses, after the annus horribilis that was 2008. In a single cataclysmic year,...

Comment: Risk management beyond the 2008 Crash

Banking Technology - 09 March 2009

The financial text books are full of elaborate discussions of risk. More specifically, risk-return or risk-adjusted return are central to...