Financial institution advantage and the optimization of information processing / / Sean C. Keenan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140478003321
• Autore: Keenan Sean C. <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-119-05322-6; 1-119-05330-7; 1-119-05304-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Collana: Wiley and SAS Business Series
• Disciplina: 332.10285
• Soggetti: Financial services industry - Data processing; Financial services industry - Information technology; Financial institutions - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Financial Institutions as Information Processors; Financial Institutions' Raison d'Etre; Low Barriers to Entry; Technical Core Products and Services Offered (Financial Intermediation and Disintermediation and Risk Pooling); Cultural Issues; The Senior Leadership Component; Outsourcing and the Culture of Failure; IT Literacy and the Spreadsheet Deluge; Other Challenges to Establishing an IT-Savvy Culture; Notes; Chapter 2 Strategic Hardware and Software Management; Overview; Storage and Retrieval; Data Processing; Analytics and Reporting Strategic Resource Management; An Integrated Data Architecture; The Data Hub Approach; Organizing System Components; Information Processing Efficiency as an Institutional Objective; System Design Considerations; The Human Capital Component; A Digression on Unstructured Data; Notes; Chapter 3 Data, Models, and Information; Model Risk Mania; Model-Based Financial Products Boom; The Model Governance Industry Wakes Up; Definitions and Epistemology; Data Quality; Models and Their Role; A Classic Example: Probability of Default Models; Other Examples; Models and the Value of Information Creation Regulatory Regimes and Guidance; SR 11-7; Basel II and Solvency II; Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR); The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX); Principles-Based Reserving (PBR) for Insurance Products; Notes; Chapter 4 Model Risk Measurement; Three Phases of Model Management; Model Governance; Defining Model Risk; Objectifying the Downside; Risk Identification; Model Risk Exposure; Model Risk Attribution: An Information Entropy Approach; Notes; Chapter 5 The Return on Analytic Assets; Measuring the Productivity of Models; Complementarity of Data Inflow with Information Processing A Digression on Price Taking; Notes; Chapter 6 Data Risk Measurement; Strategic Data Acquisition; The Information Conversion Rate; Other Approaches for Data Risk Assessment; Notes; Chapter 7 A Higher Level of Integration; Alternate Views of Integration; Identifying Key Information Cycles; An Integrated Physical View; Multidimensional Information Asset Management; Chapter 8 A Strategy for Optimizing the Information Processing Complex; Evaluation; A Path toward Improvement; Model Governance; Data Acquisition; Managing Overlapping Vintages Notes; Chapter 9 Case Studies; The Pricing of Automobile Insurance; Moody's KMV; The London Whale; The Mortgage-Backed Securities Disaster; The Value of Annuities; Notes; Chapter 10 Conclusions; References; About the Author; Index; EULA
• Sommario/riassunto: A PROVEN APPROACH FOR CREATING and IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE for DATA and ANALYTICS Financial Institution Advantage and the Optimization of Information Processing offers a key resource for understanding and implementing effective data governance practices and data modeling within financial organizations. Sean Keenan-a noted expert on the topic-outlines the strategic core competencies, includes best practices, and suggests a set of mechanisms for self-evaluation. He shows what it takes for an institution to evaluate its information processing capability and how to take the practical s