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New Report from Aite Group Looks at Basel II and its Impact on US Banks

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A new Impact Report from Aite Group, LLC provides an overview of Basel II and assesses its impact on U.S. banks. It examines the current risk management environment and considers how banks' investments in alternative instruments are driving the need for risk management tools. It also profiles the leading vendors of risk management technology that help banks meet Basel II requirements.

While banks and brokerage firms tend to follow the herd on regulatory initiatives like Reg NMS, the Patriot Act, and other developments, this has hardly been the case with Basel II. Instead, according to Aite Group's report, titled "Basel II or Basel Who: Risk Management Initiatives in the U.S.," improving risk management principles has been an ongoing effort with many banks as they seek to balance new opportunities with new exposure challenges. New instruments, globalization, and active consolidation have created new volatility in markets. That volatility has lead to record profits in some cases, and in the case of subprime impact, some rather negative returns for others. As firms move rapidly to create new investment opportunities, risk management has become a critical component in managing those efforts.

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