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RISK-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
SAS has released a suite of solutions for enterprise-wide-risk management. The SAS Risk Management for Banking suite aims to help financial institutions comply with the new Basel Capital Accord and to gain an enterprise-wide view of risk exposure. The suite provides a single environment for establishing minimum capital requirements by calculating and aggregating credit, market and operational risk measures.
COR Risk Solutions has launched its BITA Jigsaw range of component software. BITA Jigsaw enables investment and securities solutions provides, systems integrators and in-house development teams to integrate specialized risk management functionality into their system offerings. The solution includes reporting capabilities for risk measurement and attribution, portfolio optimization and construction, investment strategy formulation, back testing and historical portfolio analytics.
The Securities Industry Association will be holding its Business-Continuity Planning Conference and Exhibition October 29-30 at the New York Marriott Brooklyn in Brooklyn, New York. The conference will include an overview of the SIA Business-Continuity Planning Committee's activities and goals and will offer workshops on Best Practices and Industry Regulation, Industry Testing & SIAC, Crisis Management and the SIA BCP Command Center, Digitizing Documents for Workflow and Disaster Recovery, IP Availability Solutions, The Data Center Facility Component of Business-Continuity Planning and Catastrophic Events/Crisis Management. For more details or to register for the event go to www.sia.com/bcp02/