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Paradigms by the dashboard light

Nicholas Pratt examines how risk dashboards and scorecards are being used to make complex risk data accessible to regulators, senior management and corporate clients It is possible to pinpoint the day, if not the hour, that risk management suddenly leapt from the depths of the middle office to the middle of the boardroom. 12 September [...]

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Cash and the crash

In its seventh annual study of the global payments market, the World Payments Report has found increasing volumes in non-cash payments as the sector bounced back from the downturn Initial data suggests the growth in global payments transactions picked up again in 2010, rising to an estimated 7.8 per cent globally, fuelled by emerging markets [...]

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17442 and all that

Years of work have culminated in a legal entity identification standard. As David Bannister reports, while not perfect, the development will help to improve credit risk management Bored with ISO 20022? Don’t worry, here comes ISO 17442, the proposed authoritative legal entity identification (LEI) standard. The development of an identifier that can differentiate between the [...]

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