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  • Financial Stability Board (FSB): New Measures To Promote Resolvability, Including Effective Cross-Border Resolution

    Date 03/11/2015

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today released two finalised guidance papers and three consultative documents as part of its policy agenda to end “too-big-to-fail” and promote the resolvability of all financial institutions that could be systemic in failure through full implementation in substance and in scope of the Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions.

  • McObject & IBM Set New Records For Speed & Stability In STAC-M3 Benchmark For Capital Markets

    Date 03/11/2015

    McObject® and IBM announced today that a new report* from the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®) demonstrates the performance value of McObject’s SQL-based eXtremeDB® Financial Edition database management system (DBMS), running on IBM POWER8 S824L Linux server, executing a time-series data analytics workload.   The STAC-M3™ Benchmark suite is the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time series data such as tick-by-tick market data.

  • UK Financial Conduct Authority: Credit Card Competition Working Fairly Well But Concern For Customers In Long-Term Debt

    Date 03/11/2015

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its interim report into the credit card market, including its early thinking into potential remedies. The FCA found that competition is working fairly well for most consumers.

  • UBS Announces Changes To Group Executive Board And Board Of Directors

    Date 03/11/2015

    • Robert J. McCann to assume role of Chairman UBS Americas and step down from Group Executive Board at year end;
    • Tom Naratil appointed President Wealth Management Americas and President UBS Americas;
    • Axel P. Lehmann appointed Group Chief Operating Officer. Stepping down from Board of Directors;
    • Kirt Gardner appointed Group Chief Financial Officer;
    • Christian Bluhm appointed Group Chief Risk Officer;
    • Kathryn Shih appointed President UBS Asia Pacific (APAC);
    • Sabine Keller-Busse, Group Head of Human Resources, to join Group Executive Board;
    • Philip J. Lofts and Chi-Won Yoon to step down from Group Executive Board at year end.
    • Changes effective 1 January 2016.

  • FSB Publishes The 2015 Update Of The G-SIB List

    Date 03/11/2015

    The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published an updated list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The updated list comprises a total of 30 banks with one new bank, China Construction Bank, being added and one bank, BBVA, being removed from the list, and with Royal Bank of Scotland being moved down into the 1% bucket for required higher loss absorbency. The next update to the list will be published in November 2016.