Contents
Features and articles
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International standards: an inherent tendency to over-prescriptive?
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- 31 Oct 2025
The complexity of the financial system leads to complex regulatory standards. The process of developing international standards might, however, have an inherent tendency towards over prescription, leading to unnecessarily lengthy and overly complex requirements. Many people would certainly agree!
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To ring-fence or not to ring-fence retail banking?
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- 30 Oct 2025
There have been loud calls for the UK’s ring-fencing policy to be significantly reformed or dropped to help boost UK lending and growth. There have been equally strong voices defending ring-fencing as necessary to preserve UK financial stability and that it enables lower funding costs for UK borrowers.
Supreme Court motor finance ruling: six key questions for financial services
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- 12 Sep 2025
A recent Supreme Court decision has implications for payouts from banks and lenders to consumers with complaints over car finance.
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Vulnerabilities in non-bank financial intermediation
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- 14 Aug 2025
Many entities engaged in non-bank financial intermediation perform bank like functions and are exposed to many of the same vulnerabilities and risks as banks – yet some are subject to looser regulatory oversight.
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Liquidity, the US “Held to Maturity” (HTM) classification and High-Quality Liquid Assets
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- 12 Aug 2025
Banks hold liquid assets to meet their short-term obligations, including to manage through market disruption or other stress events.
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Quantum risk mitigation roadmap
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- 10 Aug 2025
The quantum threat is not a distant concern, it is a present strategic imperative that requires systematic preparation.
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How should we approach regulatory reform in financial services?
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- 29 May 2025
Each week we continue to hear about a new proposal by government or regulators to review rules and standards and in some case introduce new ones with the objective of making the UK more competitive in its desire for economic growth.
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Resilience of banking technology: the bad, the good and the future
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- 28 May 2025
Barclays’ customers recently suffered the inconvenience that comes with digital banking, when the technology fails. And for which the bank will pay out £12.5m in compensation.
ebooks
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CRR III: the EU implementation of Basel IV- the next generation of risk weighted assets
- 31 Jul 2023
Looks at the revised banking package of CRD VI and CRR III - they contain a large number of new requirements - the implementation of which will pose major challenges for the banking industry. In addition to the adoption of the final Basel IV regulations, other topics such as crypto assets or the consideration of ESG in banking supervisory law are addessed in this volume.
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Paul Wilmott on quantitative finance
- 20 Jan 2006
A student guide to quantitative finance.
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Building a resilient organisation
- 01 Jan 2014
How to build a prosperous and sustainable business.
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Business continuity strategies
- 01 Jan 2006
A practical guide to protecting against unplanned disasters.
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Corporate reputation, the brand and the bottom line
- 03 Jul 2005
A guide to reputation management and PR.
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Financial risk manager handbook
- 22 May 2009
For candidates studying for the Global Association of Risk Professionals annual FRM exams
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Intelligent credit scoring: building and implementing better credit risk scorecards
- 01 Jan 2017
This book presents a business-oriented process for the development and implementation of risk prediction scorecards. Credit scoring is now a very common tool used by banks, Telcos, and others around the world for loan origination, decisioning, credit limit management, collections management, cross selling, and many other decisions.
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Risk management and financial institutions
- 01 Mar 2023
Looks at the activities of financial institutions, explains their regulation, and covers market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk and model risk.