Microsoft's Perspective on Risk & Compliance

Risk & Compliance Managers, Private Equity (PE) firms, Hedge Funds, Credits firms and Consumers, in the USA and global financial markets are going to remember this week for a long time to come due to the epic changes in the financial regulation and...

Approximately 68% of an enterprise’s corporate data is managed in IT Department-controlled applications and 32% is stored in key Microsoft Excel spreadsheets(1), Microsoft Access and other databases(2) , business intelligence tools (e.g., reporting tools...

On June 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a white paper entitled “Financial Regulatory Reform – A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation”(1). This document sets forth the vision of the Obama administration for...

Year 2008 was a humbling and significant event for the Investment Banking and Risk Management professions. Many epitaphs will be written for legendary institutions that disappeared overnight and will be spoken about for decades to come in terms of the...

On June 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a white paper entitled “Financial Regulatory Reform – A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation” (the “New Foundation White Paper”).(1) The New Foundation White Paper...

In our last blog posting, we summarized the Obama administration’s proposed financial services industry regulatory reforms, as set forth in its “New Foundation” white paper [1] . The following are some of the possible business impacts of the changes,...