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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Board Diversity - should gender and ethnicity have a quota?

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Having seen a few snippets in quick succession on the matter, I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit Board Diversity, the gift th...

"Implementing Measures" to "Delegated Acts", "RTS" and "ITS" - Unsporting Lisbon...

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How to make sense of post- Lisbon legislative processes OK, I have finally broken. I think it was a paragraph that had the words " ...
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Omnibus II and Delegated Acts - state of play summary (before it gets interesting!)

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Unless you've been hiding in a cave since last summer, you shouldn't find anything new in this post, but I wanted to accumulate all ...
Tuesday, 11 February 2014

PRA's Pillar 3 Industry Working Group - the horsetrading begins...

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The PRA have at last released the materials from their pre-Christmas Pillar 3 industry working group, which should provide a little cheer to...
Friday, 24 January 2014

PRA, BaFin and Disclosure - Grüne with envy...

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Without being hypercritical, it occured to me that the PRA appear to be keeping materials and opinions "on the downsie" at a time ...
Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Model Validation - benchmarks and best practices from the IRM, PRA and Lloyds

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Models - seeking validation Bearing in mind we have passed the 2013 financial year end, and all of the internal modellers amongst us wi...
Thursday, 16 January 2014

PRA - Q&A from December's Industry Briefing

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Following on from the PRA's Industry Briefing on Solvency II prior to Christmas, they have released a set of Questions and Answers , w...
Friday, 10 January 2014

"Comply or Explain" responses to EIOPA's preparatory guidance - UK oddities?

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Isle of Man - "Call that a flood" Happy New Year (or Blein Vie Noa as we say on the relatively unflooded Isle of Man). I hop...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

PRA on "good" and "bad" documentation for IMAP - restart or refresh?

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As an welcome aside from the PRA's activity day on the 12th, they also delivered on a promise to provide examples of what constitutes ...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Governance flaws in UK financial institutions - complacency or one-offs?

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Some very interesting bits released over the weekend which should prick the ears of the UK's banking and insurance entities like a corpo...
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Friday, 13 December 2013

PRA briefing on Solvency II, IMAP and application of EIOPA's preparatory guidance

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Santa's 'Omnibus 3' joke was not so well received...  Santa obviously couldn't wait to put a smile on the faces of t...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013

ICAEW on "overarching principles of corporate governance" - how much is too much?

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I hadn't got around to this thought-leadership document from the ICAEW on corporate governance, despite their kind tweet asking for my ...
Thursday, 28 November 2013

Accenture Insurance Sector research - Global Risk Management survey

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Flood Risk? A nice generic risk management benchmarking piece from the guys and girls at Accenture came out this week, and after I spen...

Omnibus II text released - first casualties emerging?

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It was left to COREPER to announce that the Council and Parliament have agreed on the compromise text for Omnibus II, leaving the formality...
Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Financial Stability Board - Principles for an Effective Risk Appetite

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Christmas has come early everyone - the Financial Stability Board have released their Principles for an Effective Risk Appetite Framework t...

Fit and Proper Persons in financial services - judge not, lest ye be judged

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A quick note on the high-profile leadership-related crises which have reared their heads over the last couple of weeks, and whether the risk...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

Omnibus II a done deal - Greens left feeling, errr, green?

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So, having become bored with collapsing into their own tedium like a room-temperature flan, the Omnibus II negotiations reached an inevitabl...
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