Regulatory demand for greater insight into banks has pushed financial institutions to seek out scalable and low-cost data processing.
Conduct risk and reputational risk are receiving more attention from banks than ever before as they strive to gain better control over their activities.
Basel III is upon us. Although banks appear to be coping well with the capital-related elements of the regulations, they are having to make fundamental changes to the way they do business – and a 'Basel IV' looms on the horizon.
Senior executives are changing the way their organisations work in an effort to move from merely complying with new regulations to defining how the bank of the future will look.
European regulators have been trying to create resolution and recovery frameworks that will enable them to wind down failed banks without using taxpayers’ money. So far, they have not succeeded. But few bankers are quibbling with the progress made.