Analytics | Data Management | Risk Management

Ulrike BergmannFebruary 24, 2017 0

Self-Service: Erst mal anfangen, dann klappt’s auch mit der Datenqualität!

Das Konzept von Self-Service Analytics wird oft mit innovativen Geschäftsmodellen oder schneller Reaktion auf Kundenanfragen assoziiert. Darüber hinaus kann Self-Service aber auch Mitarbeiter in die Lage versetzen, operative Vorgänge besser und effektiver zu unterstützen. Mit Carsten Krah, Business Expert Risk, Fraud & Compliance bei SAS, habe ich mich darüber unterhalten,

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German

Data Management | Risk Management

Dylan JonesFebruary 6, 2017 0

It's time to stop the reactionary compliance tactics

The financial sector has always been subjected to regulatory compliance laws and directives. Consumers, lawmakers and politicians would expect no less. But it's fair to say that the financial sector has witnessed a "hockey stick" trend regarding new regulations in recent years.

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English

Risk Management

Carsten KrahJanuary 17, 2017 0

Digitalisierung des Risikomanagements

Seit der Finanzkrise hat das Risikomanagement in Banken an Bedeutung zugenommen und damit auch die Notwendigkeit der Digitalisierung. Neben eigenen Initiativen, forderte aber auch die Regulation ein nachhaltiges Risikomanagement in den Geschäftsprozessen stärker zu verankern. Nach den ersten direkten in Basel III mündenden Vorgaben zu Eigenkapitalanforderungen und Liquiditätsmanagement, hatte die

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German

Banking

Risk Management

Chrysostomos KridiotisDecember 15, 2016 0

Model Risk – Why is it important?

The financial crisis led to a deep reflection on the things that Banks and other financial institutions were doing wrong. The most significant factor that led to bad business decisions and in extend the results that we have all been experiencing the past few years, was uninformed analytics. This is

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English

Analytics | Risk Management

Thorsten HeinDecember 12, 2016 0

IFRS 17 – „Abwarten und Tee trinken“ ist keine Option

Manchmal ist abwarten und Tee trinken zwar genau die richtige Strategie, aber nicht in Sachen IFRS 17. Hier können und dürfen sich die Versicherer eine solche Haltung nicht mehr leisten. Warum nicht? Weil die Aufsicht spätestens 2021 viele neue Regularien umgesetzt sehen will. Und die sind sehr komplex in ihren operativen

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German

Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

December 7, 2016 0

Perseguir el fraude: un paso más dentro del proceso de negocios exitosos

Dentro de toda compañía la búsqueda del éxito es una constante, sin embargo, para alcanzarlo el primer paso es minimizar y de ser posible desaparecer todos los factores de riesgo que puedan ponerlo en peligro, por ejemplo, el fraude. Diversos son los factores que pueden dar paso a la presencia

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Spanish

Banking | Communications | Government | Insurance | Manufacturing | Retail

Risk Management

Chrysostomos KridiotisNovember 3, 2016 0

IFRS 9 – Closing the Gap: a look into the Governance process

After the financial crisis of 2008, concerns have been raised about “too little, too late” provisioning for loan losses and IFRS 9 is coming to enforce the adoption of a new expected credit loss (‘ECL’) model for the measurement and recognition of impairment. This aims to address concerns and accelerates

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English

Banking

Risk Management

Chrysostomos KridiotisOctober 20, 2016 0

Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting – Why now more than ever? – Part 2 of 2

In a previous blog article, Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting – Why now more than ever? – Part 1, I have discussed the requirements of the paper of the Basel Committee numbered 239 and one of the reasons the execution or application of the principles discussed therein is important for

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English

Risk Management

Paola RattiOctober 5, 2016 0

How analytics is enabling credit risk digitalization

Digitalization - the move towards a more digital world - is a well-established phenomenon. But the digitalization journey is not the same in every sector. Traditional practices, available skills and competitive forces are creating a new set of dynamics in the credit risk sector. Providers are coming under significant pressure

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English

Analytics | Risk Management

Carsten KrahSeptember 7, 2016 0

Versicherungen: Modernisierung mit Analytics

Versicherungen stehen massiv unter Druck. Negative Zinsen und ein hoher regulatorischer Druck führen auch nicht gerade zu Euphorie (versicherungswirtschaft-heute.de). Die Branche klagt, all das sei operativ gar nicht zu schaffen. Was tun? Niedrigzinsumfeld ändern? Geht nicht. Regulatorik beeinflussen? Geht nur partiell. Also bleibt nur, an Effizienz und Automatisierung von Prozessen

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German

Internet of Things | Risk Management

Amal MerzoukSeptember 7, 2016 0

Disrupting risk management: how financial models are changing

In many ways financial services is about risk management. Regulatory pressures such as BCBS 239, stress-testing, IFRS9, Solvency II and the Fundamental Review of Trading Book have hugely strengthened that focus. But there are other concerns too. Cost pressures are increasingly important, as is the rise of challengers to the

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English

Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

Christen KirchnerJuly 29, 2016 0

Damit Betrüger keinen Fuß in die Unternehmenstür bekommen!

Formulare sind fester Bestandteil unseres Alltags. Bereits bei der Geburt werden wir datums-, geschlechts-, gewichts- und größentechnisch erfasst – sei es auf Papier oder elektronisch. Und das zieht sich durch unser ganzes weiteres Leben. Für unsere Kinder müssen wir Formulare zur Aufnahme im Kindergarten, in der Grundschule oder in der

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German

Risk Management

SAS ColombiaJuly 6, 2016 0

Analítica: la llave para descifrar IFRS9 y otras nuevas normas financieras

“Los que busquen saber cuándo podría darse la próxima crisis financiera deberían ponerse un recordatorio para el 1 de enero de 2018”. Así empieza un artículo elaborado por la agencia de noticias Bloomberg y publicado este año en Portafolio. El texto busca llamar la atención en torno a la importancia

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Spanish

Risk Management

Martim RochaJune 24, 2016 0

To understand IFRS 9 challenges, start with a shared language

For banks across Asia and Europe, a new accounting standard is of increasing importance – IFRS 9. With the first IFRS 9 reporting deadline looming January 1, 2018, banks are trying to understand what they need to do to be ready. At its core, the IFRS 9 accounting standard introduces

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English

Customer Intelligence | Risk Management

Sandra HernandezJune 8, 2016 0

¿Cómo identificar oportunidades sin poner en riesgo el éxito de su organización?

Más allá de entender el riesgo como un potencial de pérdida, su definición varía ampliamente dependiendo de la industria y de muchos otros factores. Sin embargo, lo que sí es un común denominador es la necesidad de captar cómo se pueden identificar y aprovechar las oportunidades sin poner en riesgo

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Spanish

Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

Dr. Wei ChenMay 10, 2016 0

Back to the future: From CCAR to enterprise risk management

As everyone in the financial industry knows, CCAR (comprehensive capital analysis and review) was set up as a capital adequacy assessment for the major US banks. Through several years of practice and feedback, CCAR has evolved into a comprehensive stress testing exercise -- and in doing so, created a new

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English

Risk Management

Ian JonesApril 29, 2016 0

All quiet on the Barnett Front

The Barnett Shale in North Texas hit a historic mark on April 25: Its rig count fell to zero. Two hundred rigs once harvested the 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in this massive basin, stretching beneath 17 Texas counties. Today, nothing. This dramatic silence in North America’s second-largest

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English

Risk Management

Chrysostomos KridiotisApril 26, 2016 0

Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting – Why now more than ever? – Part 1 of 2

This is the first out of a series of two blog articles in which I will attempt to discuss the importance of the execution of the principles of the BCBS 239 in the Banks. I feel that a Bank’s risk management department is like a radar on a ship. It

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English

Learn SAS | Programming Tips | Risk Management

Leonid BatkhanApril 13, 2016 0

Automatic data suppression in SAS reports

Have you ever used SAS to produce reports for publishing? Have you ever thought of or been told about suppressing data in such reports? Why do we need to suppress (in the sense of withholding, concealing, obscuring or hiding) data in published reports? The reason is simple - in order

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English

Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

Roger LangMarch 22, 2016 0

Should regulators standardize risk models?

Modeling risk to meet regulatory requirements is costly and complex. Because of that, some have suggested that financial services institutions (FSIs) move toward a set of standardized models. The argument is that central banks and regulatory authorities could then more easily monitor systemic risk and compare apples to apples. But

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English

Banking

Risk Management

Ian JonesDecember 18, 2015 0

Oil, options and inflation: Looking for a silver lining

Year-end outlooks from most analysts project the low-price environment in the oil market will continue for most of next year, but some pundits emphasize that the market has bottomed out and suggest recovery, though gradual, may be seen if increasing demand outpaces supply growth and sops up some of the

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English

Risk Management

Casey NovakDecember 2, 2015 0

Learning from theSkimm to simplify bank stress testing

I have a short attention span. So, imagine my delight when a colleague of mine introduced me to theSkimm. If you are not familiar, theSkimm takes the top news stories of the day and summarizes them quickly, in ways that are easy to understand – and often linked to pop

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English

Data Visualization | Risk Management

Ian JonesNovember 27, 2015 0

From boom to bust: Searching for sustainability in the new oil climate

Times have changed. As the oil industry shutters and sheds investments that made sense during the two-year period in which oil rode comfortably above $90, the market is establishing a new equilibrium at $40/barrel. This despite the fact that the Baker Hughes domestic rig count is down 64 percent. It’s

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English

Data Visualization | Risk Management

Ian JonesOctober 8, 2015 0

Oil portfolio restructured and back in the money

Though crude oil prices edged up last week, the market remains well below VirtualOil’s original $50 strike price, meaning the hypothetical portfolio’s production is shut in in the spot market again. Oversupply continues while China GDP forecasted growth is slowing. Given the market outlook, the VirtualOil board has decided to

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Data Management | Risk Management

Larry RoadcapNovember 10, 2014 0

Value from Business-Driven Stress Testing

Going Beyond Regulatory-Mandated Tests to Achieve True Risk Management I regularly hear banking customers talk about ‘sweating their assets’ - leveraging their substantial investments in expanded teams of risk analysts, re-engineered processes and new risk systems for Basel II and III compliance – to gain better insights into their business.

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Risk Management

Larry RoadcapSeptember 23, 2014 0

Five Keys to Successful Stress Testing

Stress testing is not new to the risk world but has been a major focus since the GFC (Global Financial Crisis). For a number of years now, stress testing has helped analytical specialists quantify various aspects of potential loss. What is new is the introduction of regulatory stress tests which

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Analytics | Risk Management

Leo SadovyFebruary 18, 2014 0

Agile risk management – What might that look like?

I had the opportunity to moderate a roundtable discussion on risk management at the International Institute for Analytics’ (IIA) winter symposium in Orlando earlier this month.  I set the stage for the session with a brief overview of my favorite risk approach, “Competing on Value”, by Mack Hannan and Peter

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English

Analytics | Risk Management

Leo SadovyOctober 15, 2013 0

Innovating for the Numerator

The National Academy of Engineering identified fourteen "Grand Challenges for Engineering" that must be addressed in order to achieve a sustainable, economically robust, and politically stable future. (see the full list here) The challenges are a call-to-action for solutions to some of the most pressing issues in the 21st century:

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Manufacturing

Risk Management

Leo SadovyApril 2, 2013 0

Twenty-four extra-large bunny suits

I worked at the General Dynamics (now Lockheed-Martin) F-16 jet fighter plant in Fort Worth, Texas, during the mid-1980’s, where they subsequently manufactured the F-22 and now the F-35. My tenure there spanned the era of the $400 hammer and $700 toilet seat scandals in the military procurement world. While

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Risk Management | Work & Life at SAS

Leo SadovyMarch 5, 2013 0

Corporate culture: Your organization’s response to stress

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.  If we’ve heard it once we’ve heard it a thousand times.  I even wrote one of my early posts on this topic (“When metrics collide”).  Consultants, analysts, academics and other thought leaders have examined and questioned its veracity, but still the consensus seems to be that

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