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BPO opportunities in investment banking
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated...
Banking scenario and regulatory impacts in UK
I was trying to look at the prevailing banking scenario in the United Kingdom. I was surprised to note that the banks in UK have been undergoing considerable changes and challenges necessitated by the environment. I felt that under these circumstances,...
Interest Rate Derivatives and their wrong sales to gullible customers
Banks are more in the news these days – for a variety of reasons with negative impact of course. Of all these, the one connected with mis-selling of interest rate derivative products is causing considerable damage.
The kind of allegations...
Counterparty risk management needs a closer relook
Counterparty risk is the risk that a counterparty in a transaction will default prior to the expiration of the contract and will be unable to make agreed contractual payments
Experience has shown, normally banking and financial crises have their...
Pay and Bonus – Investment banking and evolving regulations
These times are very difficult times for our investment banks.
The markets are not moving and most of the time they are hostile. There is no growth in major economies and they make these dull markets. Making money in such markets is very difficult.
The...
DFA and Hedge fund regulation
Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act makes numerous changes to the registration and reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Among these is the requirement that advisers...
DFA and Framework for payment, clearing and settlement regulation,
Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act, titled the “Payment, Clearing, and Settlement Supervision Act of 2010,” was enacted to mitigate systemic risk in the financial system and to promote financial stability, in part, through enhanced supervision...
DFA and Regulation of interchange fees
The Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (The Dodd Frank Act) was enacted on July 21, 2010.
Section 1075 of the Dodd Frank Act amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) by adding a new section 920 regarding debit card...
DFA and Skin in the game for securitization market
Asset backed securities are created by buying and bundling loans – such as residential mortgage loans, commercial loans or student loans – and creating securities backed by those assets, which are then sold to investors.
Often such a bundle...
DFA and Living Wills (funeral plans)
Section 165(d) of Dodd Frank Act requires each non bank financial company or bank holding company with consolidated assets of $ 50 billion or more to submit periodically a plan for their rapid and orderly resolution in the event of material...
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