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2 June 2023
Using AI to support operational compliance: expectations vs reality

Rachid Tahrioui

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are terms used in the financial sector when it comes to measures for process optimisation, cost and time savings. The demand for the latest technological developments has determined the market for some time. Especially in the fight against financial crime, experts plead for the use of these technologies.
11 September 2023
Das Greenium. Die Bepreisung von Green Bonds.
Dr. Johannes Hofinger
Soll die Bepreisung grüner Finanzprodukte, z.B. grüner Anleihen (Green Bonds) finanzielle Vorteile (Greenium) bringen? Aus psychologischer Sicht ist die Antwort auf die Suche nach einer Rechtfertigung für ein Greenium klar.
In der Anlageberatung spielt ESG eine zunehmend große Rolle. Die Erfahrung zeigt, wie wichtig Wissensaufbau in punkto Nachhaltigkeit in Banken ist, denn an der Nachhaltigkeitsberatung hapert es. Dabei sind die individuellen Präferenzen der Kund:innen zu erfragen. Hierfür braucht es die nötige Überzeugung, damit es "Klick" macht.
28 July 2023
Es klickt nicht. Die Kunst der nachhaltigen Nachhaltigkeitsberatung
Thomas Kohrs
29 June 2023
The impact of Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) on global development
Ricardo A. Estrada Villalta
Digital financial inclusion (DFI) enables all possibilities to advance the achievement of many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), strengthening the link between financial inclusion and development. Despite challenges like poverty, food insecurity and healthcare, DFI's innovative business models have transformed lives globally.
For some years now, banks have been offering their customers the option of receiving electronic account statements in XML format. Unlike payment files, however, there is no obligation to process account statements in XML format ... yet! From November 2025, the banking industry will no longer be obliged to provide account statements electronically in MT940 format.
27 June 2023
The final steps to achieving a perfect XML data schema
Axel Jäger
30 June 2022
Implementing the sixth version of “MaRisk”

Henning Heuter

For the implementation of the sixth version of "MaRisk", there are a number of challenges for risk managers of medium-sized credit institutions. According to this, the supervisory authority expects the application of the normative and the economic perspective without an additional transition phase.
28 January 2022
CFOs as future drivers of digitalisation

Nils Gimpl

According to recent studies, in order to successfully manage the challenges facing finance functions in companies, a CFO must increasingly take on the "role of driver" of digital changes in the company and in his or her own area of responsibility.
22 June 2023
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the financial services industry
Jörg Lobbes
With DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), the European Commission defines a uniform framework for the financial services industry for managing cyber security risks, maintaining IT operations in the event of cyber-attacks and reporting incidents. Companies and their IT service providers must now become active and identify relevant topics and fields of action.
Customers have many options for choosing their products. The offer is as diverse as it is unmanageable. This represents a danger for investment advisors, but also an opportunity. For those who really put the client's needs in the foreground will generate added value for the client and themselves. Only then will the price for the service be justified. Those who care will win in the end.
13 June 2023
Who cares wins
Thomas Kohrs
7 June 2023
Frankfurt School delivers first Executive Seminar in ESG and Impact Investing
Dr. Alexander Lehmann
Asset management that reflects the sustainability concerns of investors has rapidly emerged as a key growth driver and innovation in financial markets. Nearly one quarter of issuance in European bond markets now has a green or other sustainability label, and fund managers have rapidly restyled products to reflect public interest in climate and other sustainability risks.
Green cities represent a visionary approach to urban development, combining sustainability and resilience to create cities that can face future challenges. By combining climate change adaptation measures, sustainable infrastructure, circular economic principles and community engagement, these cities lay the foundation for a sustainable future.
5 June 2023
Green Cities: resilient solutions for cities of the future
Andrea Beiter
11 January 2022
Using Fintech developments in the democratisation process

Khun Cho Thar Htay

The competition among telecom providers has made access to mobile internet far easier, radically changing people's lives, and exposing them to financial inclusion and literacy, and bringing them from cash to digital finance. This has not only strengthened the individual and institutional capacities but has incorporated access to digital financial services.
4 November 2021
Let data do the talking – business process mining in internal auditing

Dr. Stefan Michel

Due to the increasing digitalisation and the exponential growth of data, the practise of auditing is facing a change. Internal auditors must consider the use of technology-based data analysis methods as part of their professional due diligence and base their audit findings on appropriate assessments.
25 May 2023
On the status of the real-estate industry and real-estate economy
Birgit Ricke
The current trend reversal is solidifying within the real estate industry and real estate economics. The real estate industry faces major challenges, and banks are beginning to reanalyse, evaluate and plan their portfolios. For this purpose, it is advisable to understand a property's overall cycle and immediately implement newly gained expertise as a real estate manager.
With the Summer Academy Risk Management Track under your belt, you could have seen this coming. When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went into receivership in March 2023 with $209 billion in total assets (December 2022), this marked one of the largest bank failures in US history, second only to Washington Mutual, which went under in the global financial crisis in 2008.
24 May 2023
The bank nobody had heard of until it collapsed
Joachim Bald
Using AI to support operational compliance: expectations vs reality
2 June 2023
Rachid Tahrioui
Das Greenium. Die Bepreisung von Green Bonds.
11 September 2023
Dr. Johannes Hofinger
Es klickt nicht. Die Kunst der nachhaltigen Nachhaltigkeitsberatung
28 July 2023
Thomas Kohrs
Implementing the sixth version of “MaRisk”
30 June 2022
Henning Heuter
The impact of Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) on global development
29 June 2023
Ricardo A. Estrada Villalta
The final steps to achieving a perfect XML data schema
27 June 2023
Axel Jäger
CFOs as future drivers of digitalisation
28 January 2022
Nils Gimpl
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the financial services industry
22 June 2023
Jörg Lobbes
Who cares wins
13 June 2023
Thomas Kohrs
Using Fintech developments in the democratisation process
11 January 2022
Khun Cho Thar Htay
Frankfurt School delivers first Executive Seminar in ESG and Impact Investing
7 June 2023
Dr. Alexander Lehmann
Green Cities: resilient solutions for cities of the future
5 June 2023
Andrea Beiter
Let data do the talking – business process mining in internal auditing
4 November 2021
Dr. Stefan Michel
On the status of the real-estate industry and real-estate economy
25 May 2023
Birgit Ricke
The bank nobody had heard of until it collapsed
24 May 2023
Joachim Bald