Publications:
The Journal - January 2007
The June 2006 edition of the Banking & Capital Markets conference focuses on a number of different industry issues and has several in-depth articles.
Embedding operational risk management: The real use test
Operational risk management is at a crucial point in its development. Numerous approaches have been developed across the industry but many institutions are struggling to make them fully effective by really embedding them into the day-to-day management of the business. This flyer discusses how to overcome this challenge in more detail.
Risk-based capital management: At the heart of managing risk and value
This flyer discusses how risk-based capital management can provide a better understanding of the trade-off between risk and reward leading to more incisive decision-making and more sustainable value creation.
ICBI Risk Management Conference archive
The conference,
is Europe's largest risk management event and attracts over 500 senior risk people, who can hear contributions from around 100 well known and highly respected speakers, including both academic and risk managment practitioners.
IFRS: A step towards Basel II and Solvency
II implementation
This paper
discusses the implications of the growing alignment between IFRS
and regulatory disclosure requirements, including Basel II and the
planned EU Solvency II. In particular, it looks at how to present
a consistent and coherent picture to stakeholders and how to benefit
from the potential synergies between these disclosure requirements.
Effective capital management: Economic
capital as an industry standard?
This briefing,
written in association with the Economist Intelligence Unit, examines
the use of economic capital by financial services institutions:
how far have institutions gone in implementing economic capital
and what impact has its adoption had on decision-making within the
business.
CP 05/3 Unravelled: How the latest
CP impacts your Basel II programme
CP05/3
Unravelled provides insight into the areas addressed by this
CP, including the FSA approach to implementation, national discretion
and the scope of application as well as some of the key policy developments.
Basel II Making it work for you
This article
looks at why it is high time to take Basel out of the back office
and into the boardroom to ensure that you maximise the benefits
for your business.
Joining the dots - Tackling the Basel
II and IFRS debate
PricewaterhouseCoopers has now launched the sixth in our series
of papers
discussing IFRS and their impact on the banking industry, and this
paper compares some of the synergies and differences between the
Basel II and IFRS frameworks.
Basel Hopes and Fears - A European
banking view of the practical application of Pillar II
Now is the time for banks and supervisors to discuss
the impact of Pillar 2 on internal capital asssessment and the supervisory
review process and to develop an approach to the implementation
of Pillar 2. This survey
of banks' preparedness for Pillar 2 a lso offers their views on
the impact it will have.
Thought Leadership:
A Practitioner's Guide to
the Basel Accord
City and Financial has now launched A
Practitioner's Guide to the Basel Accord
EU Impact study
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been engaged in conducting an Impact
study for the EU Commission. The project consists of a business
assessment of Basel II, focusing on how it is likely to affect:
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Banks and Investment Firms |
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SMEs; and |
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Competitiveness of the EU economy (FS & other
sectors) |
The findings of this Impact study can be seen from the pdf files
below:
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Study |
4,6 mb |
Annex |
3,4 mb |
Tools:
Basel II Navigator
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Basel II Navigator combines an interactive,
high-level overview of the Basel II requirements and has been developed
from the 'Basel II Overview' poster, which illustrated how individual
topics fit into the complex overall regulatory framework. It is
offered to clients in support of their training needs
http://www.pwc.com/de/eng/basel2navigatorexe/
