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Study: Hedge fund leverage not a systemic problem

Recall that the Financial Stability Oversight Council--a child of Dodd-Frank--was tasked with determining which nonbank financial companies posed a systemic financial risk and should therefore be

Hedge funds to save the financial system?

Hedge funds ( hedge fund news) seem to be surviving the financial reform movement in decent shape--which may be a really good thing. A recent commentary in the Washington Post notes that financial

Still moving beyond compliance

The industry tends to gravitate to the same marketing points. Right now, we're all accustomed to the rhetoric that formerly stove-piped processes--such as financial compliance, risk management and

The new CRO

When the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort was in its infancy, people spoke often of how bad chief financial officers had it. They bore a lot of the responsibility for compliance issues and for

AS5 seems to be working

The goal of AS5 was to streamline 404 compliance and generally reduce the imperative to test everything under the sun when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The third annual survey looking at

IBM seeks global reporting standard optimized for risk

It seems that XBRL will be a reality; it's just a matter of when. While it looked like the transition was imminent not so long ago, it's a bit fuzzy today with so much going on with the credit crunch