Fitch Ratings launches “Ratings Navigator”- A visual overview of a bank’s rating
by Kylene Casanova
Factors behind the rating including a robust peer comparison that enhances the value of the ratings and research
Financial Risk Management
Background
Financial risk is made of three basic types: market risk - FX risk, interest risk and commodity risk; counter-party risk - credit and partner risk; and liquidity risk - risk that the company will not…
Read moreCME Group receives regulatory approval for launch of its European exchange
by Kylene Casanova
Will launch on 27 April to list first commodity products, and launch a suite of FX futures products
World Economic Forum: ten global risks of highest concern in 2014
by Kylene Casanova
How will: 1-financial crises, 2-unemployment, 3-water crises, & digital disintegration impact you?
Enterprise Risk Management is becoming really possible as cloud technology matures
by Kylene Casanova
Xactium Metric Manager monitors all metrics and & opens up new opportunities for ERM
Forecasting risk is now a major concern in today’s companies, survey
by Kylene Casanova
Increasing integration of FP&A and risk management data collection, etc. needed to improve analysis
BEWARE regulators are focussing on the Conduct Risk in your firm
by Kylene Casanova
But Conduct Risk still a vague concept among companies, report shows
Citi launches payments risk management tool
by Kylene Casanova
Gives clients enhanced visibility and control over their payment flows
Best and Worst Practices in ERM
by Kylene Casanova
How it has improved since the global financial crisis, and where practices are still lagging
Citi introduces market infrastructure Risk Heat Map
by Kylene Casanova
Citi has introduced the Market Infrastructure Risk Heat Map ("Risk Map") to provide investor and intermediary clients with comprehensive risk evaluations for each market in Citi's global network.
How to manage reputation risk
by Kylene Casanova
ACE Group's report, 'Reputation at Risk', published this week revealed that while 81% of companies in their survey see reputation as their most significant asset, most of them admit that they
Treasury Analytics: the integrated treasury reporting platform from PwC and BELLIN
by Kylene Casanova
PwC and BELLIN have combined their resources to provide a company-specific reporting platform using BELLIN's tm5 web-based treasury system to provide integrated reporting of the basic
Enterprise Risk Management: practitioner perspectives
by Kylene Casanova
Companies increasingly are taking an integrated view of risk, across risk types and functions, and linking their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs to strategic planning. Those are the
Is your corporate treasury department too lean to implement appropriate and effective compliance con
by Kylene Casanova
Deloitte recently published 'Enterprise compliance: The Risk Intelligent approach' which reviews "what is needed for organizational units, and geographies, enabled by people, processes, and
World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report: The world is more at risk as persistent economic we
by Kylene Casanova
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2013 report issued in January 2013 was the gloomiest yet. It highlighted wealth gaps (severe income disparity) followed by unsustainable government
Visual Risk partners with Markit to deliver a complete solution for IFRS13
by Kylene Casanova
For organisations performing half-year reporting starting from 30th June, the new IFRS13 Standard will require fair value measurement of assets and liabilities to include Credit and Debit Value Adjustments (CVA / DV
S&P Capital IQ launches new Portfolio Risk solution delivering real-time risk analysis for multi
by Kylene Casanova
The new Portfolio Risk solution from S&P Capital IQ is an advanced risk and scenario analytics tool that provides traders, portfolio and risk managers with the ability to take decisions about the pricing, hedging an
Mitigating counterparty risk in derivatives trades
by Kylene Casanova
Recently, a large U.S. company executed a sizable portfolio of cross-currency derivatives to hedge its international exposure. As it evaluated prospective swaps trading partners, the company—let's call it XYZ Corp.—
Should Treasury lead Enterprise Risk Management?
by Kylene Casanova
An AFP CTC Corporate Treasurers Forum in New York, early in May discussed whether treasurers should lead the enterprise risk management function instead of the internal audit group.
Alliance Lite 2 provides Gilead Science Inc with service bureau agnostic and bank agnostic connectiv
by Kylene Casanova
Brad Vollmer, Treasurer, at Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GSI) - a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company, with $9.7 bn annual revenues in 2012, started his treasury automation project in
ACT/Kyriba survey reveals core priorities of ACT Members for the next year: the bigger the company t
by Kylene Casanova
During March and April 2013, Kyriba, in conjunction with the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) conducted an online survey of treasury and finance professionals, all members of the Association.
Bayer goes live with SunGard’s Adaptiv Analytics to help improve risk calculations and support regul
by Kylene Casanova
Bayer AG, a global leader in health care, agriculture and high-tech materials, has gone live with SunGard's Adaptiv Analytics. The Adaptiv 360, and Adaptiv Operations will help Bayer to conduct fast
Thomson Reuters brings enhanced workflow capabilities to disclosures for SEC filings
by Kylene Casanova
Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced further strategic enhancements to its Accelus Disclosure Solutions PROFILE
Bloomberg news: more users turn to Apple devices and App Store launched with Angry Bonds
by Kylene Casanova
Financial professionals have historically relied on relied on devices like BlackBerries and boxy Bloomberg terminals to stay informed. In the last three years, however, more of them, Bloomberg has
The future(s) of swaps
by Kylene Casanova
Dwight Cass writing in International Treasurer poses the question, ' Will corporates make the move to exchanged-traded swaps?'. He believes that corporate exemption from interest-rate swap