Frontiers in Finance

frontiers in finance is Financial Services global industry magazine. It assembles the thinking of our professionals around the globe, providing you with informed perspectives on recent and current issues. In doing so it is designed to stimulate your thinking about the best way forward by highlighting practical issues at both the strategic and tactical level.

Frontiers in Finance - June 2009

  • Major changes ahead: Making sense of regulation
  • Perspectives on regulation in banking, investment management and insurance
  • Clarity and reality: The role of the auditor in financial services
  • Jump start – Reviving the US financial system: The Financial Stability Plan
  • Economic turmoil: The US commercial real estate perspective
  • Confidence must return: An investment management perspective
  • Renewing the promise: Time to mend relationships in investment management
  • Act now: The implications of Basel II revisions
  • Quietly prospering: Canadian financial services
  • A glimmer of hope
  • Show me the money: Insights into global payments
  • Addressing the trust gap: Renewing confidence in the financial services industry
  • Separating value: Getting the most from your disposals
  • Changing for the better
  • Getting ahead – UCITS IV: Putting the potential into action
  • Order returns… An economic overview
  • Emerging markets: A brighter future?
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    Frontiers in Finance - March 2009

  • Navigating the storm: A new course for financial services
  • Agenda overload
  • At the crossroads: Managing risk in insurance
  • Never again? Risk management in banking
  • Survival of the fittest: Resilience in investment management businesses
  • Boom to bust: Lessons from the Spanish property crisis
  • In the wake of the crash: A new paradigm for real estate banking?
  • As the tide goes out... Increased fraud revealed by the credit crisis
  • Money in the bank: Tax, savings and the credit crisis?
  • Lean not mean? Cost optimization
  • What is real? The truth about outsourcing for banks
  • Series Emerging markets: The spirit of Latin America
  • Islamic finance: Hidden potential: A wealth of opportunity in Indonesia
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    Frontiers in Finance - December 2008

  • Connecting with Generation Y. What drives the next generation of wealth accumulators
  • Insurance what’s next? Financial storms, tropical hurricanes
  • Fine tuning: Why future regulatory compliance can deliver clarity and performance
  • Facing the future: Changes and challenges in Life Insurance
  • IFRS: Why wait? A personal view
  • Bancassurance: Coming of age
  • The key to success: Moving clients to center stage
  • Enterprise Risk Management: A job to be done
  • Money in the bank: Tax, savings and the credit crisis
  • Series Emerging markets: Greetings from Hong Kong: The economic crisis has arrived
  • Islamic finance: Mutual respect
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    Frontiers in Finance - July 2008

  • Regulation after the credit crunch. Backlash, or measured response?
  • First the pain, now the gain. Tax management after the credit crunch
  • A UK Investor perspective. Hedge fund best practice standards
  • Best practice standards for the hedge fund industry
  • Sovereign Wealth Funds. An Analysis
  • Mortgage fraud. Getting serious
  • Reflecting on changes in financial services
  • Loan recovery: the forgotten process
  • Considering integrity due diligence in emerging markets: have you ticked the right boxes?
  • Islamic banking: orchestrating growth in Malaysia
  • Climate change: financial services in the danger zone
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    frontiers in finance - March 2008

  • Retail banking in the U.K. and the U.S.: An inside perspective
  • Banking on innovation
  • Fighting fraud
  • The future of payments: Challenges looming?
  • SEPA: Deserving more attention
  • After the crunch: Where now?
  • Economic Capital: Paper tiger, dead duck, or still alive and kicking?
  • Branch effectiveness: Delivering a high performing sales culture
  • A customer-centric approach: The key to driving revenue growth
  • Mobile payments in Asia Pacific
  • Islamic finance: Watch this space
  • Emerging markets: China rising: Stocks, bonds and derivates in the world's most dynamic ecnomomy
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    • frontiers in finance - September 2007

  • Pace of change opens up further opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russian insurance booms
  • A changing climate
  • Insurance outsourcing: India leads the way
  • Profits down the drain?
  • beating insurance fraud - there is a smarter way
  • Bringing down the barriers: Securitizations go global
  • Building a robust defense - transfer pricing
  • Taking an enterprise-wide view of risk: The evolving role of the CRO
  • New IASB discussion paper: What is the story?
  • Time to take a look under the hood of your economic capital models?
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    • frontiers in finance - June 2007

  • Towards a single view of risk and return
  • Operational infrastructure: The derivates industry wakes up
  • Legal entity structures: Reaping the benefits of rationalization
  • Paying attention to tax risk
  • A guide to model risk and control
  • Simplyfying the complexities of risk and compliance
  • Out of the back office: Credit risk decision making systems
  • The key to success
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    • Frontiers in finance - October 2006

    The edition of frontiers in finance Ocotber 2006 focuses on such topics as industry consolidation prospects in private banking and insurance, product persistency and customer retention as the next major challenge for U.K. insurers, securing the projected benefits of major IT projects, teorrorism and the problem of extending the boundaries of business conntinuity or balancing compliance and performance in the finance function.
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    Frontiers in finance - March 2006

    The edition of frontiers in finance March 2006 focuses on new challenges for the financial services sector in booming economies such as China, Russia or Brazilia. The articles discuss also issues as global sourcing, compliance, technology and its influence on fraud, enterprise risk management, the changing nature of audit or impact of environmental, social and governance issues on financial performance.
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    Frontiers in finance - October 2005

    This edition of frontiers in finance focuses on the challenges for the financial services sector raised by change in the broader business environment - the economy, the regulatory framework and the forces of globalization.
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    Frontiers in finance - May 2005 (Asia Pacific - special edition)

    For decision makers in financial services: Asia represents an area of great opportunity for financial services players. However, Asia is of course not just one market but a region of diverse cultures and business practices all at different stages of development. In order to capitalize fully on the growth opportunities this region offers, all of these issues must be understood and addressed.
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    frontiers in finance - June 2004

    This edition of frontiers in finance focuses on regulation, capital adequacy, compliance, and consumer regulatory trends with four main themes standing put: the increasing globalization of regulation, the regulator´s focus on effective corporate governance, rising consumer protection, the convergence of regulation across different financial sectors. The issue is designed to help readers in all regulatory environments, from the mature to the recently created, in understanding the issues that affect them.
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