Category Archives: ERM Strategy

Enterprise Risk Management Strategy

Proposed CrowdFund Act s.2190

Posted on April 5, 2012 by pattysmith

Proposed by U.S. Senators Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) collectively introduced the “CROWDFUND Act” (S. 2190) [Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud & Unethical Non-Disclosure of 2012 Act]A Checklist of Key Provisions

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Uncle Sam’s Case for Start Up Acceleration [infographic]

Posted on April 2, 2012 by pattysmith

Another weapon in the economic recovery and job creation quiver, the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Start-Ups Act) may be just what the doctor ordered. President Obama is moving America forward and wants to sign the Jobs Act! Reuters analysis … Continue reading →

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Derivatively Challenged…What else was Corzine saying today?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by pattysmith

As we peel back the layers of exposure from the US financial crisis and look to the potential impact from the impending financial market fall out in Europe, it is abundantly clear regulators and policy makers here are wanting to … Continue reading →

Posted in ERM Strategy, General | Tagged Banks, Black Rock, CDS, CMBS, Credit Event, Credit Index Options, Derivatives, DTCC, Financial Crisis, Financial Guaranty, Financial Services, Insurance, Jon Corzine, Larry Fink, MF Global, Mortgage Insurers, Real Estate, Regulation, RMBS, Swaptions, Timothy Geitner, US Treasury | Leave a comment

The Next 200 Days in American Finance

Posted on October 21, 2011 by pattysmith

As a follow up to our earlier post on Fire in the Belly of American Finance, thought I would post a sample short range scenario mapping

Posted in ERM Strategy, General | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Complex Network Affect, Double Blindfold Stimulus, Fire in the Belly, Mr. Hamilton's Planks, Scenario Reports, The Next 200 Days in American Finance | Leave a comment

Dumb and Blonde on the Double Blindfold Stimulus

Posted on October 11, 2011 by pattysmith

In our efforts to get at root cause in the financial crisis, what’s missing in the recovery and management of ongoing risk is the conviction to follow all the way through on the bailouts we chose as a nation to … Continue reading →

Posted in ERM Strategy, General | Tagged Big Banks, Brazil, Chaos Theory, Credit Market Collapse, Credit Quality, Dodd-Frank Act, Double Blindfold Stimulus, Effective Internal Controls, Extra Contractual Reset, Extraordinary Event, Financial Crisis, Fire in the Belly, Interest Rate, Jobs, Macro Recovery, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Market, Non-Performing Assets, Risk Factors, Safety and Soundness of Banking, TARP, Underperforming Assets, Unstructured Data | Leave a comment

Fire in the Belly of American Finance, What Might Hamilton Say About a Double Blindfold Stimulus?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by pattysmith

This will be a multi-part post… Please do weigh in on the absurd… Few figures in American history were more grounded in the importance of finance to America than Alexander Hamilton. In fact, long before Mr. Porter of Harvard thought … Continue reading →

Posted in ERM Strategy, General | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, American Finance, Big Banks, Blindfold, Central Bank, China, Consumer Spending, Critical Mass, Debt Reduction, Dodd-Frank Requirements, European Debt Crisis, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis Litigation, Housing Market Recovery, India, Japan, JPM Analyst, Liability, Main Street, Middle Class, Mr. Buffet, Mr. Hamilton's Planks, Private Financial Services Sector, Robert Wright, Small Banks, Small Business, Stimulus, Strong Dollar, Sufficient Tax Base, The First Wall Street, Timothy Geitner | Leave a comment

Coping with Unstructured Data and the Fragmented Corporate Mind

Posted on September 30, 2011 by pattysmith

ERM and Scenario Reports Clients are looking for tools to move out of complexity, inertia and what they see as wrong action. In Enterprise Risk Management (or ERM) we are looking at strategic impediments to the achievement of objectives. It … Continue reading →

Posted in ERM Strategy, General | Tagged Critical Mass, Enterprise Risk Management, ERM, Organizational Intent, Scenario Reports, Seven Functions of Empowered Risk Managers, Shell Oil Company, Strategic Impediments, Unstructured Data | Leave a comment

Are You Guys Up for QuantCheck?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by pattysmith

Restoring Trust in Financial Markets and Program Trading Operations Hi it’s Patty. The market news wasn’t so great today. But this has been on my mind, so I thought I would put up a quick post on this because it … Continue reading →

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Can Citi and BofA Ultimately Win Markets at the Snail’s Pace?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by pattysmith

BofA taking the Countrywide rescue on the chin and still in intensive care. In lieu of the operational disasters that kingpins like Citi and BofA still have to endure to evolve their business models, you have to wonder whether their … Continue reading →

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