Category Archives: Risk Mitigation
Guest Post: Harnessing Innovation for Growth and Compliance
SAIB’s Chief Information Officer Khaled M Gad walks us through dynamics of the Egyptian banking ecosystem and how SAIB is gearing up to address the challenges and opportunities.
Basel I to Basel II – The evolution of Risk Management Standards
Basel II was introduced in the year 2005 to address new risks which had arisen in the world of Banking. Credit Risk was enhanced to evaluate risk at client level for wholesale banking while Basel I evaluated it at a … Continue reading
White paper: Basel III – An easy to understand summary
Basel II was introduced in the year 2005 to address new risks which had arisen in the world of Banking. Credit Risk was enhanced to evaluate risk at client level for wholesale banking while Basel I evaluated it at a … Continue reading
Interview: Banking Payments Asia: Better navigation in a challenging environment
Technology keeps revolutionizing the retail banking industry, and data analytics seems to sit at its core.Given increasingly complex processes, organisational structures and regulations, business intelligence is becoming a vital tool for senior executives. Thomas Zink speaks to Vivek Subramanyam, CEO … Continue reading
White paper: Business Intelligence for Central Banks: Powering mission-critical information management
It may sound clichéd, but Central Banks truly are the heart and soul of any nation’s economy. They are the extended arm of the government and strategize, plan, implement,monitor and control various aspects of the economy. It is very difficult … Continue reading
Fintelekt in conversation with Ravi Raman, Chief Solution Evangelist
Banking and Insurance research specialist speaks with Ravi about the challenges facing the Indian banking sector, technologies that it should be leveraging and Basel III in the Indian context.
Integrated Stress Testing Architecture: the need for a consolidated, future-proof framework
Risk-control assessment in financial institutions should not just be limited to identifying failures in processes and exposure levels. It must also perform routine ‘what-if’ analyses to stress test the changes in capital requirements. An ideal stress testing solution requires integrated … Continue reading
Business Intelligence in Banks – a journey, rather than an end state
A bank is a complex behemoth of inter-connected information. At the base level, there are key metrics defined for everyone; increasing the customer base for the Retail Sales head, managing customer litigations for the Legal team, adhering to the regulatory … Continue reading
Case Study: GIC leverages iCreate’s Biz$core BI for insights-powered Assets Management
Background: Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) has a successful track record of partnering enterprises across multiple industry sectors in effectively delivering innovative investment & financial products and solutions. GIC’s Global Markets Group (GMG) manages investment portfolios covering a wide spectrum of … Continue reading
Imagining a ‘Maslowian’ hierarchy of Banking Business Intelligence (BI) needs
“A bank in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a way to measure it”. But what exactly do they want to measure? What is the best approach to determine what is important to measure, what is … Continue reading