Dodd-Frank
32 white papers and resources
Dodd-Frank
The role of markets in the Energy Transition
Harnessing the “power of markets” is critical to meeting growing energy demand, while reducing pollution in the most efficient manner possible. Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of Utility Markets at ICE examines the impact of the energy transition on various energy uses, and the role of markets to…
Global Crude Benchmarks: Brent Sets the Standard - Part 3
The purpose of this report from ICE and Energy Intelligence is to provide a deep dive into the role of the Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil benchmarks, their mutual relationship, and their interaction with the global oil market.
Global Crude Benchmarks: Brent Sets the Standard - Part 2
The purpose of this report from ICE and Energy Intelligence is to provide a deep dive into the role of the Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil benchmarks, their mutual relationship, and their interaction with the global oil market.
Global Crude Benchmarks: Brent Sets the Standard - Part 1
The purpose of this report from ICE and Energy Intelligence is to provide a deep dive into the role of the Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil benchmarks, their mutual relationship, and their interaction with the global oil market.
Identifying and Managing Climate Risk in Loan Portfolios
This whitepaper shows, through a concrete credit risk example, how to incorporate the effect of climate change into risk models - something that regulators around the world are increasingly making mandatory.
Atoti+: Build and deploy the best enterprise analytics applications 50 times faster
This white paper introduces Atoti+, an all-in-one data analytics platform that combines the flexibility of a Python API and the performance of a Java API. Atoti+ helps banks eliminate "Shadow IT" and everyone else manage and make sense of their massive data volumes.
Investment Firms Regulation: Why K-factor complexity demands super-powered solutions
This paper discusses the complexities facing investments management firms as they tackle the new requirements of the Investment Firms Regulation (IFR) according to the Investment Firms Directive (IFD).
Credit Risk Management Under Basel IV and Beyond
Basel IV has changed the way banks need to deal with the impact of credit risk on their finance, risk and regulatory compliance functions. It is no longer enough to address credit risk in isolation, as was the case under the Basel I and II guidelines.
LDTI VS IFRS 17 - Simpler, But Not Simple
An outline of the critical areas to consider when assessing your plan for IFRS 17 and LDTI.
Preparing for a New Era of Cash and Liquidity Management - Video Highlights
This animated video provides highlights from an exclusive survey from WatersTechnology, in association with SmartStream. It offers insights into why there should be opportunities for firms to extract more value from regulatory driven projects and realising cost efficiencies.
The Regulatory Opportunity – Preparing for a New Era of Cash and Liquidity Management
This white paper explores the processes surrounding liquidity management the regulation affecting liquidity thresholds. It examines the value of bringing liquidity systems and processes together to ensure all information impacting liquidity can be viewed in a single system.
Regulatory Client Outreach & The Path to Compliance
This paper explores the core operational and internal challenges that currently make the process of Regulatory Client Outreach a logistical nightmare for financial institutions. It further explores a proposed ‘best practice’ approach by automating aspects of the client management process.
Why you should strategically invest in a regulatory reporting documentation platform
This white paper discusses the current state of regulatory reporting systems and explores the different frameworks that can be used to help with the challenges organisations are facing.
Regulatory Information Brief: MiFID II - Trade Supervision: First Defence
This white paper explores what is involved in implementing new regulations and how the front office will need to adapt in response to the changes.
The Current State of Banking Stress Testing Technology: Closing the Gaps
This paper examines the current state of stress testing capabilities of banks, with a focus on key areas of weakness – and proposes how banks can address them with strategic investments in new capabilities.
Dynamics of disruption: An ‘Uber’ approach to compliance reporting
This white paper explores why it is no longer a matter of if—but rather when and how—firms will exit the “business” of trade and transaction reporting.
What do rising trade reporting costs mean for your firm
This white paper will look at the factors affecting the rise in trade reporting costs, the biggest trade reporting challenges, impending rules and the future of trade reporting.
The Rising Cost of Trade Reporting: Can firms afford to stay compliant?
This white paper explores the current state of trade reporting and shows how growing costs, complexity and regulatory scrutiny are fueling a compelling business case for third-party managed solutions.
Stress Testing: Putting the Pieces Together to Solve an Increasingly Intricate Puzzle
The global financial crisis and the aftermath that continues to unfold have created a justifiable obsession with stress among bankers and supervisors. The sharper focus has made stress testing a key component of the evolving global regulatory framework covering risk control and capital discipline.
Top-Tier US Banks Capital Plans
This white paper highlights the key elements of the banks’ capital plan submissions which were identified as suffering from critical weaknesses. The thirty top tier US banks now involved in this high stakes annual assessment are painfully aware that even a passing grade is insufficient to meet…
A New Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Since the 2008 ‘financial crisis’, regulators in virtually every jurisdiction have significantly ‘upped the ante’ in terms of levels of disclosure, granularity, trace-ability and frequency of regulatory reporting requirements.
OTC IRS Portfolio Optimisation: how trade compression could save funds $mlns before the 2016 European Clearing Mandate strikes
This white paper describes a new approach to trade compression that allows fund managers to reduce the costs of swap clearing by up to 80% by eliminating excess gross notional from their books. The aim is to increase both trading and clearing efficiency in advance of the impending 2016 European…
Trends, Risks and Opportunities in Collateral Management in Asia
Collateral is viewed as both a solution to and a trigger of massive financial losses that occurred as a result of the financial crisis of 2008. In response, Asian policymakers introduced new rules and legislation, such as the amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act in Japan, as…
Webinar - Collateral and counterparty tracking - the practical challenges of the new margin regime for non-cleared trades.
FREE webinar: 'Collateral and counterparty tracking: The practical challenges of the new margin regime for non-cleared trades.'
Margin calling—Is your VaR methodology ready for initial margin on uncleared derivatives?
In response to industry fears of a collateral crunch, regulators have revised the proposed rules on margining for uncleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The revised “near-final” draft of requirements would be phased in from 2015 to 2019, impacting the largest entities first, with the…
Collateral management survey 2013
Insurance Risk’s second collateral management survey in conjunction with BNY Mellon finds more insurers are taking steps to prepare for new derivatives regulation, but concerns about collateral availability are mounting
Turning Reform into Competitive Advantage
As Europe embraces a new era of cleared and executed derivativestrading, market participants will have to maximize operational efficiencies to improve risk management, provide greater transparency to clients and counterparties, and to create smoother workflows.
Flexible technology needed to respond to regulatory change
This webcast looks at the risk measurement, portfolio valuation and modeling assumption changes that the financial industry is undergoing as a result of the 2008 crisis.
Global securities enforcement activity stepping up to meet new market challenges
The US regulatory environment continues to revamp with new rules being issued to conform to legislative mandates in the Dodd-Frank Act. The UK and EU also seek to reinforce previous global initiatives to reform and strengthen financial markets. These developments and implications are discussed.
Lender market advisory: swap guarantees – keepwells and excluded obligations
Under analysis in this white paper are options for addressing in loan documentation the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission requirement that guarantors of swaps that are not entered into on designated contract markets must be "eligible contract participants".
SunGard pre-empts Dodd-Frank dilemmas
Organisations are preparing for the implementation of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act regulations. Senior executive vice president at SunGard Energy & Commodities, Ben Jackson, explains how to pave the way and avoid getting caught out.
The ultimate risk – flawed liquidity risk management
As the global financial services industry digests Dodd-Frank, Basel III, European bank stress tests and the inexplicable ‘flash crash’ that downed Dow Jones 700 points in minutes, the question is where to now?