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SEC Risk Factors Disclosure Analysis

Harvard Corporate Governance

Opportunities remain to better align external risk reporting with internal risk management and reporting processes, improve the readability and categorization of risks, and make disclosures less generic.

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Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Proposed Capital-Requirement Increases for Banks

Reynolds Holding

The main thrust of the proposal is to eliminate the use of models in relation to credit risk and operational risk and, for market risk exposures, to make the use of models much more difficult to be approved (and to stay approved). from outside the large banking organizations).

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The Fundamentals of Financial Risk Management Explained

Audit Board

Financial risk is the likelihood that the organization will lose money on a business investment or other decision, including loss of capital. Below are six types of risks that fall into the financial sphere, including operational risk, credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, legal risk, and foreign exchange risk.

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Arnold & Porter Discusses Today’s SEC Examination Priorities, Tomorrow’s SEC Enforcement Actions

Reynolds Holding

Exams intends to review advisers’ conflicts and disclosures around portfolio strategies, risk management, and investment recommendations and allocations, including investments in Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and particularly where the private fund adviser is also the SPAC sponsor.

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SEC Chair Speaks on Mandatory Disclosure at Conference Honoring John C. Coffee, Jr.

Reynolds Holding

We did it in the 1960s when we first offered guidance on disclosure related to risk factors. [12] 12] We did so in the 1970s regarding disclosure related to environmental risks. [13] 14] We did it again in the 1990s when we required disclosure about executive stock compensation [15] and in 1997 regarding market risk. [16]

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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

Middle Office: In these roles, you “support” the front office with tasks such as managing the market risk on trades, managing liquidity for the bank’s operations (treasury), and determining the credit risk of counterparties in trades. These roles all tend to pay more and have more competitive hiring processes as well.

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Appraiser Newsroom - Untitled Article

Appraiser Newsroom

Dr. Henry has over 20 years of diverse experience in the fields of business economics, consulting/advisory services, interest rate and market risk modeling, and government affairs. Additionally, he has been retained to provide expert witness testimony for plaintiffs and defendants in several jurisdictions.