Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm BST | 11:00 pm HKT
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenters: Allan Grody, President, Financial InterGroup; Jeff Hasmann, Senior Solutions Architect, SAS Global Risk Practice; Clifford Rossi, Executive-in-Residence, Center for Financial Policy, University of Maryland

Recent events such as the financial crisis, collapse of MF Global, and Eurozone debt problems have caused a renewed focus on financial risk management among regulators and financial services executives. The need to improve the granularity, timeliness, and accuracy of risk measurement and reporting have become evident. Moving forward, financial institutions will need to execute risk management decisions in a more timely manner, and results describing risk limits, exposures, and liquidity must be available, on an intra-day basis, to key decision-makers. To meet these requirements, new “high performance” technologies have evolved to help these companies modernize their legacy risk systems. This Webcast will examine the new technology paradigms that are evolving to enable more timely financial risk management practices.

Date: Tuesday, Jun 05, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm BST | 11:00 pm HKT
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenters: Frederick Cannon, Director of Research, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; Edward Kane, Professor of Finance, Boston College; Yalman Onaran, Senior Writer, Bloomberg News; Nomi Prins, Senior Fellow, Demos

Spreading the pain over time or exasperating the risk? The reaction of the U.S. government to the 2008 crisis and the European governments to their current predicament has been a strategy of kicking the can down the road -- bailing out failing banks, flooding the financial system with cash and hoping that fundamental problems are resolved over time. But is the failure to fix the underlying problem -- restructuring the debt that can't be paid -- preventing the global economy from recovering? Join us as our panel of experts discusses whether zombie-bank policies are creating an even bigger ticking time bomb.

Date: Thursday, Jun 07, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm BST | 11:00 pm HKT
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenters: Chris Donohue, PhD Managing Director, GARP Research Center; Bill May, FRM Program Director

The risk management profession has evolved dramatically in the last ten years. Driven by rapid changes to financial markets, various regulatory initiatives and notable financial crises and control failures, the role of risk management today demands well-trained and skilled individuals. GARP has surveyed risk managers globally to determine the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to succeed as a risk manager today, and we use these results to shape the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Program. The FRM Exam is a challenging test designed to comprehensively assess one’s ability to measure and manage risk in a real-world environment. Chris Donohue, the Managing Director of GARP’s Research and Educational Programs, and William May, GARP’s FRM Program Manager, as well as risk industry professionals, will describe and discuss the structure of the FRM Program and how it can benefit serious participants in today’s financial industry.

Date: Thursday, Jun 14, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm BST | 11:00 pm HKT
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenters: Sharon Brown-Hruska, VP, Securities and Finance Practice, NERA; Nathan Jenner, Global Head of Rates E-Trading, Bloomberg

Regulatory reforms and increased oversight are changing the landscape of the over-the-counter derivatives industry. From execution and reporting to clearing and settlement, the OTC derivatives markets are undergoing major structural changes. This Webcast will provide an overview of the new regulatory demands, as our panel of experts takes a closer look at swap execution facilities, new clearing requirements and other issues confronting financial institutions active in OTC derivatives trading.

Date: Thursday, Jun 21, 2012
Time: 12:00 pm EDT | 5:00 pm BST | 12:00 am (June 22) HKT
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenters: Hans Helbekkmo, SVP, Enterprise Wide Risk, Union Bank; Roger Miles, Director of Research, NudgeGlobalExchange; Peter Went, VP, Banking Risk Management Programs, GARP

Discussions about ethics and the psychology of risk-taking in the financial markets tend to center on traders and bankers, while risk managers rarely enter the picture. Yet risk professionals are called upon to monitor, measure, manage and communicate risk throughout institutions, and their behavior has a significant impact on the financial system. With the financial crisis spurring a wide-ranging re-assessment of the functioning of the financial system, there has never been a better time to examine the ethical considerations that enter the day-to-day realty of managing risk. In this Webcast, our panel of experts will discuss the rarely addressed ethical questions that face financial institutions’ risk managers.