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Full participation integral to financial integration in ASEAN
Proceedings report from the International Banking Conference 2013, held in conjunction with The Asian Banker Summit 2013 on ASEAN financial integration and the transaction banking industry today.
Evolution of the intelligent flow monster in trading
Steve Grob, director of group strategy at Fidessa, explains how playing the scale game successfully within the trading environment will increasingly depend on a changing and more intelligent relationship with technology.
US banking authorities must impose enhanced market discipline on larger banks
Date: Apr 23, 2013
Author: Foo Boon Ping
Categories: Regulation, Risk and Regulation
Keywords: William Isaac, FDIC, Dodd-Frank Act, TARP, Systemic Risk
William Isaac, former chairman of FDIC discusses how US financial regulators failed to perform the very roles they were created for in recent times.
Safety nets must be implemented judiciously to ensure stability of the global financial system
Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of FDIC advocates for more useful and transparent capital standards that allow for greater comparability among all global and domestic financial firms.
Banks must be prepared for increased regulatory demands to remain competitive
Proceedings report from The Asian Banker teleconsultation session, "Basel III and beyond - An Overview and Response to Regulatory Changes.”
Banks must re-examine their risk appetites in light of global regulatory shifts
Ronald Gould, former senior advisor to FSA UK, feels that banks now face a far more complex operational environment where the costs of getting it wrong have risen dramatically.
US’ biggest banks unlikely to be dismantled despite calls for reform
Sandy Weill does an about-turn and joins advocates favouring the splitting-up of US’ largest banks in calling for far deeper changes among major banks to ensure past mistakes are not repeated.
Leadership in challenging times
Date: Apr 26, 2012
Author: Dick Kovacevich
Categories: Asian Banker Summit 2012
Keywords: Leadership, Wells Fargo, Dodd-Frank Act, SIFI’s
Dick Kovacevich, chairman emeritus of Wells Fargo, discusses regulators' handling of the financial crisis and the recipe for success in the industry, in his opening speech of the Leadership Dialogue at the Asian Banker Summit 2012.
Shooting oneself in the rating foot
David Millar, risk trainer and former COO at PRMIA, feels that in their desperation to close down rating agencies, regulators are in danger of leaving the investment industry with no efficient credit risk standards.




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