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Bank Technology News June 2003 Karen Krebsbach	Basel II: Burden Or Opportunity? Savvy banks know the price is worth it: Banks that embrace rather than resist Basel II, the mammoth proposal designed to control operational and credit risk, will claim a greater competitive advantage in the marketplace, say technology analysts.
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Nancy Feig	Banks Make Headway Towards Basel II While international banks have made considerable progress toward complying with the provisions of Basel II, US banks still are waiting for the final rules. But that isn't keeping them from reexamining their risk management technologies.
Bank Systems & Technology July 5, 2004 Cynthia Ramsaran	The Buzz on Basel II Banks leverage enterprise management technologies to get head start on compliance.
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Standard Jumps on Standards Johannesburg-based Standard Bank chose SunGard's Capital Manager for Basel II solution for its Basel II compliance and capital management needs.
InternetNews March 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Package Looks to Stop Risky Business Package geared to cut down on credit risks in banks, according to European Basel II regulations.
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Nancy Feig	Basel II's Three Pillars of Compliace While the minutiae of the supervisory regulations issued for Basel II by the Bank for International Settlements is as drawn out as its official name, there are three simple points around which the accord is based.
OCC Bulletin August 4, 2003	Proposed Revisions to Risk-Based Capital Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord This bulletin briefly summarizes the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) and Supervisory Guidance developed for corporate credit risk and operational risk that were published today in the Federal Register.
Wall Street & Technology September 21, 2004 Paul Allen	Basel II: Coming to America Now that the Basel II Accord will apply to the U.S. securities industry, some firms are playing catch-up.
CFO October 1, 2007 Rob Garver	One Nation, Left Behind The race to cut compliance-based capital has begun, and U.S. banks are trailing the pack -- badly.
Wall Street & Technology March 18, 2008 Cory Levine	Lack of Standardization in Data, Reporting to Hinder Basel II Compliance Lack of standardization in the reporting process will be a major hurdle for financial institutions in complying with Basel II requirements.
BusinessWeek April 17, 2008	The Lowdown on Basel II Its No. 1 goal is to smooth out financial crises, and its main method is fine-tuning banks' capital requirements.
OCC Bulletin September 25, 2006	Proposed Revisions to (1) Risk- Based Capital Rule Implementing the new Basel Capital Accord and (2) Market Risk Rule This bulletin briefly summarizes two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking. The first NPR would implement new risk-based capital requirements for large or internationally active U.S. banking organizations. The second NPR proposes changes to the current risk-based capital charge for market risk.
Bank Systems & Technology June 1, 2005 Phil Britt	Missed Opportunity Though Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and revisions in state and federal banking laws continue to increase the time and cost commitment banks must make for compliance, there are ways to mitigate the burdens of regulatory requirements and even improve operations.
Bank Systems & Technology February 22, 2007 Nancy Feig	A Happy Marriage: Finding the Right Technology Mate for Compliance Programs Banks are turning to GRC software platforms to maximize compliance technology's effectiveness and gain greater return on investment.
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Bank Systems & Technology November 29, 2004 Ivan Schneider	Reflections on Risk Leading banks are pursuing new ways to achieve competitive advantage through superior risk management.
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Bank Systems & Technology December 19, 2007 Nancy Feig	Major Canadian Banks Become Basel II Compliant IT vendors that helped major Canadian banks achieve Basal II compliance are passing on their knowledge to smaller Canadian and US banks.
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Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Maria Santos	Top 5 Risk Initiatives Financial institutions have a lot to focus on in the risk department. Here are this year's top five risk initiatives.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2006	Operational Risk Management Goes Global New research suggests that financial services firms across global regions will concentrate much of their spending over the next three years on operational risk management.
Bank Systems & Technology February 25, 2010 Penny Crosman	Recalculating Risk: The New Rules of Risk Management New data management and risk analytics tools are giving banks such as ING, HSBC and Union Bank insight into enterprise-wide risk exposures and a head start on Basel II rules.
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Mike McDonough	Centralized and Single-Platform Operations Reduce Overall Trade Finance Risk Banks with centralized operations and banks with all of their operations on a single platform will have a distinct advantage because there is lower operational risk generally associated with these structures.
Bank Systems & Technology May 8, 2007 Nancy Feig	Technological Improvements Crucial To Greater Transparency In Banking Supervision Traditional approaches to government supervision of banks may actually hurt development and lead to greater corruption in lending in some countries, according to research.
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Nsouli & Schaechter	Challenges of the "E-Banking Revolution" Electronic banking is the wave of the future. It provides enormous benefits to consumers in terms of the ease and cost of transactions. But it also poses new challenges for country authorities in regulating and supervising the financial system and in macroeconomic policy.
FDIC FYI April 21, 2003	Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Commercial Lending: The Impact of Basel II The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the mechanics of the Basel II risk-based capital calculation for commercial credit exposures, and to present evidence on the impact of the new calculations on capital requirements for syndicated loans.
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Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 Cory Levine	A New View of Risk Only now are financial firms approaching the risk associated with their technology infrastructures as a business-critical initiative with substantial bottom-line implications and devoting greater resources to their maintenance.
Bank Technology News June 2001 Brian O'Connell	Risk Management Software Spells Relief for Bankers The technology also helps keep regulators happy...
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Bank Technology News May 1, 2008 Michael Sisk	Governance, Risk and Compliance Budgets March Higher A recent survey finds that governance, risk management and compliance budgets at financial institutions will rise an average of 10.3 percent this year.
FDIC FYI December 8, 2003	Estimating the Capital Impact of Basel II in the United States We use 19 years of financial data from all FDIC-insured commercial banks to develop a range of values for the key Basel II risk parameters that banks might be expected to use over time. This allows us to estimate average capital requirements under the A-IRB approach under a range of economic conditions.
eCFO April 2001 Adam Lincoln	Basel Faulty Managers at some smaller companies complain that Basel II will lower adequacy ratios on loads to healthy corporations but will raise the bar on loans to less-sound businesses...
CFO March 1, 2007 Rob Garver	Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend.
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Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2004 Steven Marlin	IBM Debuts Integration Solutions Vertical approach helps banks' compliance efforts.