Conduct risks are at the very top of the regulatory agenda. But many financial institutions are uncertain about what regulators mean by the term "conduct risk" and unclear about what they as firms should be doing about it. Here is A&M’s perspective on both of these critically important questions.

In this issue of A&M Readings in Quantitative Risk Management, we examine the final current expected credit loss standard issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2016, and the implications for financial institutions in how they estimate the expected loss on credit facilities.

In the first issue of the UAE Banking Market Pulse, a quarterly series, we share results from our research examining the 10 largest listed UAE banks and highlight key performance indicators of the UAE banking industry.

The primary proxy advisor firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, recently announced changes to their governance evaluation policies and processes for the 2017 proxy season. The following is a summary of the ISS changes for 2017, with a focus on those changes relating to compensation and its governance.

A&M's Phil Beckett and David Dutt have participated as panel experts in this mini roundtable discussion on electronic information management.

As many U.S. corporates sit in a tight holding pattern waiting for further details on potential tax reform, other large players in the technology industry are preemptively taking action based on predicted features of the plan.

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its supply chain management capabilities in the energy sector with the hire of Jeffrey T. Relf, who joins the firm’s Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Houston as a Managing Director.

Suman Jagdev’s hiring bolsters firm’s automotive and industrial sector experience with a focus on transaction advisory and performance improvement.

Almost four months have passed since the presidential election, and conversations are increasingly shifting to the looming promise the House Republicans made to issue an overhauled tax code during the 2017 year.

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today announced the elevation of Mr. Kaustav Ganguli to Managing Director, Corporate Solutions Group, leading the advisory firm’s healthcare vertical in India and the Middle East.

House Republicans and the Trump administration both agree on one very reliable and quantifiable source of funding to pay for their ambitious tax rate reduction plans: foreign earnings that U.S. multinationals currently have “reinvested” offshore and deferred from U.S. income taxation (at current U.S. rates up to 35 percent).

There have been several recent occurrences of “conduct related” risk management mishaps resulting in sizeable Reputational, Regulatory and Financial risk. What can be learned from these events?

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Regulation 504 which went into effect on January 1, 2017. Regulated institutions are now busy developing their path to compliance, however, due to the prescriptive nature of the regulation; many organizations may find themselves unsure of how to get started.

The past decade has unarguably been one of the most revolutionary decades for the financial services industry. Financial institutions are experiencing an increased burden of transparency, internal controls and effective response more than ever before.