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This report explores the ‘step change’ of upcoming G20 regulatory requirements on banking, insurance and capital markets firms' ICT infrastructure. The report details the difficulties firms face in complying and identifies that the business case for wholesale change is not apparent enough, despite the threat of monetary consequences in the tens of millions.

The research identified 8 key priorities for firms required by regulation starting in 2012, and offers a perspective on how firms, their suppliers and the regulators may best collaborate to define what ‘regulatory compliant infrastructure’ looks like.

This 24-page research report includes survey and interview results from over 30 financial institutions, providing a fascinating glimpse of the state of the industry today and should make essential reading for compliance, operations, IT and all decision makers for ICT infrastructure.

Continuing on from our Executive Brief, "Strong foundations for regulatory reform?", this report expands on the need for global risk and trading data standards.  It explores the complex regulatory landscape surrounding risk and trading data, how firms are struggling with supplying regulators with timely, accurate and comparable data and why standards are needed in order to save firms significant cost and hardship in implementing ever more stringent requirements.

This Executive Brief summarises the key differences in transatlantic regulatory risk and trading data policies and explores the business case for collaboration on new UK data architecture standards.  It tackles the three regulatory imperatives that are driving shifts in the way that firms will need to manage their data, asks key questions regarding global risk and trading data standards and discusses the UK's unique opportunity to be a leader in setting the global standards agenda.

This research paper summarises JWG's findings on the level of progress which the industry has made in improving risk management information (MI) capabilities to a point that satisfies the more stringent regulatory requirements.  The research explores 10 specific regulatory requirements for change and the way that the firms have internalised these change requirements, and offers a perspective on the key gaps which most firms face.  The research summarises the industry's 'known unknowns' and identifies a critical missing piece of the landscape: common standards. 

Free to members of LiRAN and CDMG (log in to download), or contact us if you wish to purchase a copy.

How pushing risk into the spotlight helps the bottom line. 

Free to members of LiRAN and SyRiG (log in to download), or contact us if you wish to purchase a copy.

This whitepaper summarises the results of our research into the priorities for risk management from an investment firm’s perspective. As politicians clamour for better risk management, the strain on firms’ current risk infrastructures will increase, especially when it comes to the provision of timely and accurate aggregated risk data. More than just an IT issue, this research is for all people that manage the many functions affected by the regulations.

This comprehensive liquidity risk dummies’ guide from JWG provides a perspective from the ‘starting line’, when global regulators commenced their liquidity consultation processes.  It examines their rapid movement towards the new liquidity standards and the status of the initiatives from global, European, Asian, Australian and UK regulators.

[FREE to registrants] Liquidity risk - everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

Findings from 3 FS risk surveys

April-July 2009

[FREE to registrants] "Winning the risk governance battle" - questions they'd prefer you didn't ask.

Priced at £795, our latest Analysis Report "What if ... you could have heard the bubble bursting?" is out now [discounts may apply to some organisations]. Contact us if you wish to reserve a copy or need further details.

Priced at £795, our Analysis Report "Liquidity risk management - the new imperative" published mid-March 2009 [discounts may apply to some organisations]. Contact us if you need further details.

[FREE to registrants] "New Global Liquidity Risk Management Standards" - a primer for the emerging back-office challenges of 2009-2010.