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Wall Street & Technology March 18, 2008 Cory Levine	Lack of Standardization in Data, Reporting to Hinder Basel II Compliance Lack of standardization in the reporting process will be a major hurdle for financial institutions in complying with Basel II requirements.
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Nancy Feig	Banks Make Headway Towards Basel II While international banks have made considerable progress toward complying with the provisions of Basel II, US banks still are waiting for the final rules. But that isn't keeping them from reexamining their risk management technologies.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005	Basel II Falls Flat Despite increased efforts, banks are less certain about the benefits of Basel II compliance, according to a recent survey.
Bank Systems & Technology December 19, 2007 Nancy Feig	Major Canadian Banks Become Basel II Compliant IT vendors that helped major Canadian banks achieve Basal II compliance are passing on their knowledge to smaller Canadian and US banks.
CFO December 1, 2003 Randy Myers	Basel's New Balance A new accord may soon help banks lend more for less.
Bank Technology News June 2003 Karen Krebsbach	Basel II: Burden Or Opportunity? Savvy banks know the price is worth it: Banks that embrace rather than resist Basel II, the mammoth proposal designed to control operational and credit risk, will claim a greater competitive advantage in the marketplace, say technology analysts.
Bank Systems & Technology March 29, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Hidden Opportunity In preparation for a 2008 deadline, banks are starting to buckle down and initiate their Basel II strategies. With the purchase of a credit risk product from Reveleus, an i-flex solutions company, Wells Fargo is among the financial institutions readying itself for the new regulation.
OCC Bulletin September 25, 2006	Proposed Revisions to (1) Risk- Based Capital Rule Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord and (2) Market Risk Rule This bulletin briefly summarizes two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. The first NPR would implement new risk-based capital requirements for large or internationally active U.S. banking organizations. The second NPR proposes changes to the current risk-based capital charge for market risk.
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2004 Paul Allen	Basel II: Coming to America Now that the Basel II Accord will apply to the U.S. securities industry, some firms are playing catch-up.
InternetNews March 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Package Looks to Stop Risky Business Package geared to cut down on credit risks in banks, according to European Basel II regulations.
FDIC FYI January 14, 2003	Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought.
Bank Technology News May 2007	The Six Regulatory Areas That Are Altering Bank Life Regulation is a part of bank life. Failure to comply shouldn't be.
Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006	Basel II Progress Varies by Region When it comes to implementing Basel II compliance technologies, financial institutions' progress is all over the map: Europe is leading the race to comply... U.S. progress has been slowed due to uncertainty about the format and deadline...
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Standard Jumps on Standards Johannesburg-based Standard Bank chose SunGard's Capital Manager for Basel II solution for its Basel II compliance and capital management needs.
OCC Bulletin August 4, 2003	Proposed Revisions to Risk-Based Capital Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord This bulletin briefly summarizes the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) and Supervisory Guidance developed for corporate credit risk and operational risk that were published today in the Federal Register.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2006	Operational Risk Management Goes Global New research suggests that financial services firms across global regions will concentrate much of their spending over the next three years on operational risk management.
BusinessWeek April 17, 2008	The Lowdown on Basel II Its No. 1 goal is to smooth out financial crises, and its main method is fine-tuning banks' capital requirements.
Bank Systems & Technology October 6, 2006 Nancy Feig	Basel II Drives ERM The consensus among bankers and experts is that Basel II is the driving force behind enterprise risk management.
Bank Systems & Technology February 25, 2010 Penny Crosman	Recalculating Risk: The New Rules of Risk Management New data management and risk analytics tools are giving banks such as ING, HSBC and Union Bank insight into enterprise-wide risk exposures and a head start on Basel II rules.
CFO October 1, 2007 Rob Garver	One Nation, Left Behind The race to cut compliance-based capital has begun, and U.S. banks are trailing the pack -- badly.
Bank Systems & Technology July 5, 2004 Cynthia Ramsaran	The Buzz on Basel II Banks leverage enterprise management technologies to get head start on compliance.
Bank Technology News August 2008 DiCristofaro & Kelly	What's Driving IT Spend For Basel II The financial industry's largest banks and broker-dealers have faced considerable challenges in their efforts to improve financial risk management and satisfy evolving regulatory requirements generated by the Basel II Capital Accord.
Bank Systems & Technology February 19, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	BMO Looks Beyond Basel II With Reveleus In 2006, with Canada's deadline for Basel II compliance looming, Bank of Montreal sought a solution that would meet its immediate Basel needs - and more.
Bank Systems & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivan Schneider	The Calculus of Basel II Basel rules allow banks to choose how granular they want to get.
FDIC FYI August 5, 2004	FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking The FDIC has replaced on its website the FYI dated December 8, 2003, titled "Estimating the Capital Impact of Basel II in the United States," with a corrected version.
BusinessWeek April 17, 2008	The Story of Basel II So Far... A chronological look at the Basel II banking accord since its inception in 2004.
eCFO April 2001 Adam Lincoln	Basel Faulty Managers at some smaller companies complain that Basel II will lower adequacy ratios on loads to healthy corporations but will raise the bar on loans to less-sound businesses...
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Nancy Feig	A Happy Marriage: Finding the Right Technology Mate for Compliance Programs Banks are turning to GRC software platforms to maximize compliance technology's effectiveness and gain greater return on investment.
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Yalman Onaran et al.	The Battle Over Bank Rules at Basel III Efforts to correct the mistakes that led to the global meltdown are meeting resistance from banks in the U.S. and Europe
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Maria Santos	Top 5 Risk Initiatives Financial institutions have a lot to focus on in the risk department. Here are this year's top five risk initiatives.
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Mike McDonough	Centralized and Single-Platform Operations Reduce Overall Trade Finance Risk Banks with centralized operations and banks with all of their operations on a single platform will have a distinct advantage because there is lower operational risk generally associated with these structures.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Cem Karacadag & Michael W. Taylor	Toward a New Global Banking Standard: The Basel Committee's Proposals The Basel Committee's new capital framework proposals will have important implications for developed and developing countries alike. Although many details remain to be worked out, it is not too early for countries to start preparing for the proposals' implementation.
Bank Systems & Technology June 2, 2004 Cynthia Ramsaran	Banque Populaire Prepares for Basel II French Bank uses Fair Isaac rules management technology to comply with capital requirements.
U.S. Banker December 2010 Rajiv Shah	Risk Management Beyond Basel III Though the new requirements make sense theoretically, it as not clear how the pulls of capital and liquidity will affect the long-term health of the banking industry, and the economy as a whole.
U.S. Banker April 2007 Karen Krebsbach	International-Rule Adoption May Harm Emerging Economies Traditional approaches to bank supervision could actually hurt the societies they're aiming to protect, particularly those in emerging economies.
FDIC FYI April 21, 2003	Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Commercial Lending: The Impact of Basel II The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the mechanics of the Basel II risk-based capital calculation for commercial credit exposures, and to present evidence on the impact of the new calculations on capital requirements for syndicated loans.
Bank Technology News October 2008 Kyle Duckers	Strategic GRC Yields Clear Payback Can a financial institution's governance, risk and compliance effort be a strategic tool, or is it simply a cost of doing business? Can best practices actually improve shareholder value? These are important questions that some financial services executives continue to ponder.
OCC Bulletin December 28, 2006	Risk-Based Capital: Domestic Capital Modifications This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is applicable to banking organizations that are not subject to the Basel II NPR that was separately proposed on September 25, 2006.
Wall Street & Technology January 4, 2004	Beyond Compliance: The Business Value of Sarbox Investing in Sarbanes-Oxley could offer a competitive edge, according to a recent TowerGroup report.
Bank Technology News May 1, 2008 Michael Sisk	Governance, Risk and Compliance Budgets March Higher A recent survey finds that governance, risk management and compliance budgets at financial institutions will rise an average of 10.3 percent this year.
Knowledge@Wharton	Operational Risk Poses Challenges to Financial Institutions and Regulators Operational risk is the chance that an institution may be laid low by an internal system failure -- such as not guarding against a rogue trader's activities -- or an external event.
Wall Street & Technology June 28, 2005 Maria Santos	The Shift to Holistic Compliance As U.S. financial institutions feel the burden of complying with a multitude of regulations, forward-thinking firms are examining ways to use their existing technology for more than one compliance initiative.
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2003 Jim Middlemiss	A Risky Operation A wave of new regulations is forcing investment-management firms to focus on reducing their operational risk.
Bank Systems & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivan Schneider	Reflections on Risk Leading banks are pursuing new ways to achieve competitive advantage through superior risk management.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Joseph Rosta	Risk Management: Miles to Go Unless regulators ensure that risk management becomes an integral part of banks' corporate culture, from the trading floor to the boardroom, the goal of preventing systemic failure may prove much harder to achieve.
CFO March 1, 2007 Rob Garver	Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend.
OCC Bulletin October 29, 2003	Proposed Revisions to Risk-Based Capital Regulations Implementing the New Basel Capital Accord The U.S. banking agencies are currently seeking comment on a proposed framework for implementing the New Basel Capital Accord in the United States through an advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
Bank Systems & Technology September 15, 2010 Penny Crosman	Top 7 Ways Basel III Affects U.S. Banks and Their IT Departments New capital rules will drive banks to use new risk models and perform data integration projects.