Risk is the potential that a chosen action, including the choice of inaction, will lead to a loss or an undesirable outcome. Any business carries some risk, but some are much more risky than others.…
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How can risk be a 'performance driver' or 'value creator'? Technology is set to change the way companies think about risks and here are six risk management trends to watch out for next year.
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The BIS Quarterly Review looks at three emerging themes from the 2016 survey of global FX markets, in an article that discusses the causes and implications of downsized FX markets
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Enterprise Risk Management can be used to drive significant shareholder value if……
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US companies are taking a minimally compliant approach to sustainability disclosure, providing the market with information that is inadequate for making investment decisions, says the SASB
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On Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a timely report on the risk and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector, identifying non-performing loans (NPLs) as a key challenge.
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Proposals under MiFID II to strengthen the regulation of commodities markets, curb price speculation and regulate companies in these markets have been announced by the Commission.
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More than two-fifths of treasury and finance professionals are concerned that their risk management performance is mediocre or poor, according to a study by Fidelity Information Services.
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The EU has proposed rules aimed at strengthening Europe's financial system further and protecting taxpayers by providing for the resolution and recovery of central counterparties.
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This Thomson Reuters report describes the development of the yuan into an international trade currency, underlining the need for a group of indices to monitor and hedge RMB movements.
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Banks facing array of challenges including risk perception following financial crisis, borrowing costs, investor scepticism and falling share prices.
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Much is being written and said about how a Trump presidency will affect the US and global economy. Here is a little overview of recent views being aired in the financial media.
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Research suggests that distributed ledger technology could pose some serious risks and threats to personal data privacy and could be vulnerable to denial of service or other cyber attacks.
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Redhat goes live with AtlasFX’s Cloud Risk Management and Analytics Solution to improve FX their currency risk management programme
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Forbes reports on IBM's progress in harnessing distributed ledger technology (DLT) to enable companies to communicate safely and immediately to resolve trade disputes.
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A survey has shown that the top systemic threat to the global financial system is cyber risk, while the outcome of today's presidential election in the US came second.
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Many companies are struggling to monitor risks posed by their suppliers, distributors and partners AND, due to business pressures, many respondents would not report regulatory breaches
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Climate risk is increasingly being considered as a key area of financial risk management and reporting for companies. Is this approach simply perpetuating the problem?
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The European Commission has announced it will set up a high level expert group on sustainable finance, as part of its Capital Markets Union strategy.
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Seven countries began to use the renminbi for more than 10 per cent of their direct payments (by value) with China and Hong Kong in the two years from October 2014 to September 2016.
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A report on bank risk management looks at the transformation in the banking sector eight years after the 2008 financial crisis, which saw the demise of several banks and the bailout of others.
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These risks are all an unknown quantity. So if we can't measure them, how can treasurers react and prepare? An 11-person panel at EuroFinance's International Treasury conference discussed how.
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European markets could make more use of trading halts if there is significant price movement in a related market, following a public consultation announced by ESMA.
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New rules set out the levels and types of collateral that OTC derivatives counterparties must exchange bilaterally if the transaction is not cleared through a central clearing counterparty (CCP).
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Counterparty risk is a top concern for treasurers and one major problem is concentrated exposure to a small number of businesses.
