Seven Steps to Better Financial Services Risk Management
[ Source: BearingPoint ]
March 2008-
Join BearingPoint Managing Director Brian Hart to explore the seven steps to more effective performance and risk management. As a result of the recent credit crisis, organizations are faced with a challenge of making the best use of a very constrained balance sheet. BearingPoint has created a seven-step methodology to help organizations address these issues, and position their companies to deliver superior results. Through the seven steps that have been outlined, you will ....
A Comprehensive Credit Assessement Framework
[ Source: SAS ]
April 2008-
This white paper gives an overview of a comprehensive credit assessment framework (CCAF), developed by SAS, which addresses the credit scoring limitations imposed by insufficient credit and market information, insufficient sampling time frames and static, data-driven factor selection and weightings.
EMC Documentum Information Rights Management Extends Security and Control
[ Source: EMC ]
October 2008-
The EMC Documentum architecture for information rights management (IRM) helps global companies and government agencies actively control, secure, and track sensitive information, wherever it resides, beyond delivery to and access by authorized users. The system uses strong industry-standard cryptography combined with a unique client-server architecture. Documentum IRM Services’family of client applications or plug-ins works with a common policy server to secure and control electronic information. This white paper provides an overview of the technical architecture ....
Operational Risk: Where is the Value?
[ Source: SAS ]
April 2008-
This article focuses on finding the true tangible value of investing in upgrades (such as technology improvements) to the operational risk control framework and helps senior level security executives explain these benefits to the entire organzation.
The Hidden Dangers of Everyday Information Transfer
[ Source: Sterling Commerce ]
December 2008-
Every day financial services organizations share megabytes, gigabytes or even terabytes of data with their business partners around the world using protocols such as FTP, HTTP, S-HTTP, SFTP, and FTPS. If there’s no apparent service outage, security breach or audit failure, most organizations assume these protocols are doing a secure and effective job of file transfer. But each of these protocols has serious flaws that are quietly making it harder for financial ....
Better Management of Credit Risk: A Guide for Mid-Tier Banks, Credit Unions and Lenders
[ Source: SAS ]
April 2008-
Have you harnessed the power of automated, proactive credit risk management? Learn how to improve decision making and accurately forecast risk exposure by viewing this broadcast now. Panelists from the mid-tier banking, credit union and lending sectors demonstrate just how easy it is to integrate and optimize your existing credit risk processes.
ERM: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness
[ Source: EMC ]
August 2008-
Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) compliments existing information security technologies. This report by The Gilbane Group includes a brief recap of the history of ERM, an outline of the ERM market study, and highlights of the survey results. This ERM market study was designed to examine the progress ERM has made in the market over the past few years and to assist ERM vendors in positioning the technology to their customers. The structured primary ....
Subprime Lending Crisis: Causes and Effects of the Mortgage Meltdown
[ Source: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ]
May 2008-
The subprime mortgage crisis, popularly known as the “mortgage mess” or “mortgage meltdown,” came to the public’s attention when a steep rise in home foreclosures in 2006 spiraled seemingly out of control in 2007, triggering a national financial crisis that went global within the year. Consumer spending is down, the housing market has plummeted, foreclosure numbers continue to rise and the stock market has been shaken. The subprime crisis and ....
Enterprise Bank & Trust has Password Security Locked Up with Imprivata OneSign
[ Source: Imprivata ]
January 2006-
As a leading commercial banking and wealth management services provider in St. Louis and Kansas City, Enterprise Bank & Trust is committed to providing its customers with the highest standards of service and security. A few years ago the bank’s IT team implemented unique and complex passwords that bank staff had to remember to gain access to their many applications. Users struggled to remember many unique and difficult passwords, even resorting to writing passwords down. ....
Best Practices in Data Management
[ Source: SAS ]
May 2007-
As part of the ERM Global Program, this white paper should be used to establish SAS expertise and leadership in data management, particularly in relation to the development of an enterprise risk management strategy.