Operational and Cyber Risk
210 white papers and resources
Will your business practices come back to haunt you? Use technology to mitigate your chances of conduct risk
Conduct risk is not something that can be identified by applying a simple boilerplate. Each financial services business will have its own culture, customer base, product portfolio and marketing strategy, so the risks will to some extent be bespoke to the business and they may also be deep-rooted.
Datafeeds Special Report - The need for feeds more than just speed
Barely a decade ago, traders begun eschewing traditional consolidated data feeds in favour of direct feeds from exchanges, in their pursuit of lower latency. The markets were becoming faster, and everyone had to keep pace if they wanted to remain competitive.
Battling fraud at the root cause: How cybercriminals bypass your security defenses and what you can do about it
This white paper provides an overview of how cybercriminals circumvent security measures at each stage of a transaction’s lifecycle — pre- login, during login and post-login — and offers strategies to help financial organizations combat malware-driven attacks.
Selecting the right cybercrime-prevention solution
Financial institutions, commercial enterprises and government organisations are all prime targets for cyber-crime. Malicious software, or malware, is the primary attack tool used by cyber criminals to execute account takeover attacks, stealcredentials and personal information, and initiate…
Next generation criminal fraud detection: Identifying account takeover and fraudulent transactions to help stop cybercriminals
In today’s ever changing fraud landscape, much of the currently used statistical-based fraud detection methodology is creating significant challenges for both organizations and end users. These statistical models generate high false positive rates and provide a risk score that does not effectively…
A New Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Since the 2008 ‘financial crisis’, regulators in virtually every jurisdiction have significantly ‘upped the ante’ in terms of levels of disclosure, granularity, trace-ability and frequency of regulatory reporting requirements.
Special report: Unauthorised trading
Download this special report from Operational Risk & Regulation to find out why the risk of unauthorised trading grows from cultural and control problems and what can be learned from UBS’s $2.3 billion rogue trading loss uncovered in 2011. Read also an interview with Neil Roth, New York-based head…
Meeting FFIEC guidance and cutting costs with automated fraud prevention
This white paper will discuss how organizations can achieve effective and sustainable online banking fraud prevention in accordance with FFIEC guidelines using the IBM Security cybercrime prevention architecture.
The Legal Risk Challenge Widens
In-house counsels tasked with managing legal risk have interesting times ahead. The new European Banking Authority rules may strain resources, and force a review of legal-risk categories and risk models.
Trends, Risks and Opportunities in Collateral Management in Asia
Collateral is viewed as both a solution to and a trigger of massive financial losses that occurred as a result of the financial crisis of 2008. In response, Asian policymakers introduced new rules and legislation, such as the amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act in Japan, as…