... Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2012 Society, shareholders and self-interest Accountability of business leaders in financial services Executive summary Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in ... C-level executive is to keep in mind the interests and views of key stakeholders in all executive decision-making 37 32 The duty of the C-level executive is to keep in mind the interests and views of ... accountability in financial services is far from settled Society, shareholders and self-interest Accountability of business leaders in financial services What lies beneath One finding that jumps...
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:18
... and communication Improving the transparency of internal reporting Educating businesses to make certain capital costs are integrated into strategy and business line management 51 ... testing; introducing more rigorous internal and external pricing structures; elevating the discussion and approval of liquidity risk appetite and contingency planning to the board level; and giving ... loops which reinforce the position of risk and the culture of the bank in a way that actually hits people in their pockets Having the CRO heading the committee goes a long way in reinforcing the risk...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
A crisis of culture valuing ethics and knowledge in financial services
... knowledge in financial services Chart Top five reasons to improve knowledge of the financial services industry (% of respondents) Increasingly complex risk environment 50% Increasing role of technology ... crisis of culture Valuing ethics and knowledge in financial services Conclusion Emerging from the global financial crisis, the financial services industry recognises the importance of creating a ... knowledge in financial services Which of the following you think would help you the most in advancing your career in the financial services industry? (% respondents) To improve knowledge of issues...
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:03
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Complex transcriptional and translational regulation of iPLA2c resulting in multiple gene products containing dual competing sites for mitochondrial or peroxisomal localization docx
... Translational regulation of iPLA2c in myocardium Owing to the obvious complexity of the regulation of iPLA2c resulting from the combined presence of transcriptional and translational regulation, ... presence of multiple iPLA2c protein products in mitochondria resulting from usage of different translation initiation codons in rat myocardium Alternative splicing of iPLA2c in mammalian tissues In ... CdxA binding sites Oligonucleotide g177 shares homology with the Oct1 binding site, whereas oligonucleotide g230 did not contain a predicted site for binding of nuclear proteins Utilizing radiolabeled...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Financial Services Authority Data Security in Financial Services pdf
... contains Data Security in Financial Services Page ®®®®®®®®®® Page Data Security in Financial Services ®®®®®®®®®® Contents 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Findings 1.3 Executive summary Conclusions Introduction ... noted during our visits a general shift in the financial services industry – including in small firms – from holding customer data in paper files to the electronic scanning and filing of correspondence ... Security in Financial Services ➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤ 45 During 2007, FCID handled 187 financial crime cases and 56 of them involved data loss This made data loss the most common type of financial crime incident...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Improvement of a monopartite ecdysone receptor gene switch and demonstration of its utility in regulation of transgene expression in plants pdf
... a DNAbinding domain (DBD) and a ligand-binding domain (LBD) The chimeric gene (transactivation domain– DBD–LBD) is expressed under the control of a constitutive promoter In the presence of a specific ... construction of a versatile system for the expression of foreign genes in plants Gene 61, 1–11 Tavva VS, Collins GB & Dinkins RD (2006) Targeted overexpression of the Escherichia coli MinC protein in higher ... flexible ligand binding pocket of ecdysone receptor: a single amino acid change leads to discrimination between two groups of nonsteroidal ecdysone agonists J Biol Chem 279, 27211–27218 Dinkins RD, Pflipsen...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Calcium-induced contraction of sarcomeres changes the regulation of mitochondrial respiration in permeabilized cardiac cells doc
... reported in this work, the decrease in the Vmax of respiration with an increase in the free calcium concentration (Fig 6A) is of interest, and may be explained by an inhibitory effect of increased ... Reversibility of the effects of calcium-induced contraction of cardiomyocytes on the kinetics of regulation of mitochondrial respiration by exogenous ADP The kinetics of respiratory regulation was ... creatine kinase reactions, including mitochondrial creatine kinase [3840] Increase of the free calcium concentration to lm resulted in some decrease of the Vmax, but its value stayed higher in...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo Y học: Elucidation of the role of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in the regulation of glucose fluxes in mice usingin vivo 13 C NMR measurements of hepatic carbohydrate metabolism docx
... the increased rate of 13C label incorporation into the C6 position of glycogen in the ADM group is indicative of activated 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase, which can lead to increased 13C labeling at ... start of glucose infusion For the calculation of glycogen C6 changes, data acquired within h of the start of the glucose infusion was not included to avoid any in uence of transient changes in the ... up -regulation of glucokinase and a down -regulation of glucose-6-phosphatase gene expression, suggesting that this biofactor may also be involved in balancing the uptake and release of glucose from...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20
Memorandum of Understanding between HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority pptx
... circumstances, official financial operations, in accordance with the arrangements in paragraphs 13 and 14 of this Memorandum, in order to limit the risk of problems in or affecting particular institutions ... for: i the overall institutional structure of financial regulation and the legislation which governs it, including the negotiation of EC directives; ii informing, and accounting to Parliament ... spreading to other parts of the financial system The FSA's responsibilities The FSA's powers and responsibilities are set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Within the scope of the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Rethinking Risk Management in Financial Services Practices from other domains potx
... Campos Chief Executive Officer SWIFT Axel Lehmann Chief Risk Officer Zurich Financial Services Rethinking Risk Management in Financial Services Report | Executive Summary The recent financial crisis ... or extent of a process that generally leads to a more robust living system 36 | Rethinking Risk Management in Financial Services Report Application to financial services In financial services, ... system Rethinking Risk Management in Financial Services Report | 37 38 | Rethinking Risk Management in Financial Services Report Chapter – Governance and Culture 3.1 Introduction In many domains, the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets: An International Perspective pot
... computing, exploring the increased speed offered by using chips with many tens or hundreds of independent cores operating in parallel This often involves using specialised processing chips originally ... execution costs Of course, additional studies linking HFT and institutional trading costs in other market settings would be helpful in determining the generality of this finding In summary, the ... Foresight: The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets (2012) Final Project Report The Government Office for Science, London The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets An International...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Differentiation associated regulation of microRNA expression in vivo in human CD8+ T cell subsets" doc
... biology, in view of proteomic experiments demonstrating that a single miRNA can directly repress the production of hundreds of proteins in mammalian cells, through both downregulation of mRNA ... Switzerland 2Department of Immunology, Page of National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Bordet Institute, University of Brussels (ULB) ... (group A) is in agreement with previous cloning studies in mouse CD8+ lymphocytes [15,18] showing that a few highly expressed microRNAs prevailed in frequency Interestingly, these microRNAs include...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Differentiation associated regulation of microRNA expression in vivo in human CD8+ T cell subsets" pptx
... biology, in view of proteomic experiments demonstrating that a single miRNA can directly repress the production of hundreds of proteins in mammalian cells, through both downregulation of mRNA ... Switzerland 2Department of Immunology, Page of National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Bordet Institute, University of Brussels (ULB) ... (group A) is in agreement with previous cloning studies in mouse CD8+ lymphocytes [15,18] showing that a few highly expressed microRNAs prevailed in frequency Interestingly, these microRNAs include...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Multilevel regulation of growth rate in yeast revealed using systems biology" pptx
... decrease in levels of glutamate Instead, there was a corresponding trend in the increase in the transcript and protein levels of the mitochondrial 2-oxoglutarate transporters, and an increase in protein ... gain insights into the importance of mitochondrial energy and nitrogen metabolism in affecting growth rates These insights were possible only by integrating information from transcripts, protein ... abrupt changes in the levels of some yeast transcripts, with increases in expression of key genes involved in glucose transport and vesicle transport and repression of those involved in ethanol metabolism...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21
Transcriptional regulation of protein complexes in yeast potx
... complexes in yeast: mining large scale protein-protein interaction screens Bioinformatics 2003, 19:1901-1908 Manke T, Bringas R, Vingron M: Correlating protein-DNA and protein-protein interaction ... Prediction of cis-acting regulatory elements in genes of multiprotein complexes comment Figure (see previous page) Detailed2view of the main clusters in the network linking annotated protein complexes ... 'core' of the binding site, and the number in brackets is the length of the spacer in terms of the number of intervening nucleotides The feature map shows that each upstream sequence contains at...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20
báo cáo khoa học: "Transcriptome analysis by GeneTrail revealed regulation of functional categories in response to alterations of iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana" pdf
... successfully applied for data mining The main strength of GeneTrail was that it offered answers to individual biological questions with its feature of incorporation of individually defined categories (such ... strength of microarray interpretation lies in the possibility of extracting information beyond the single gene level to address questions on the co -regulation of genes, on the identification of gene ... category was found induced in comparisons of - Fe vs + Fe (in wild type and in nas4x1) and in nas4x-1 vs wild type at + Fe, indicating that biotic stress responses were generally induced by Fe deficiency...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo y học: " Smoking-mediated up-regulation of GAD67 expression in the human airway epithelium" doc
... proteincontaining supernatant was collected The protein concentrations were assessed using a bicinchoninic acid (BCA) protein concentration kit (Pierce, Rockford, IL) Equal concentration of protein ... subtracted using MetaMorph image analysis software (Universal Imaging, Downingtown, PA) MUC5AC Staining For MUC5AC staining in large airway and small airway epithelium, brush cells cytospin slides ... Ly6/neurotoxin (Lynx1), the founding member of a family of mammalian prototoxins, modulates nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in vitro by altering agonist sensitivity and desensitization kinetics...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: " Differential regulation of neurotrophin expression in human bronchial smooth muscle cells" pptx
... h of culture (not shown) Effects of IL-1β on neurotrophin mRNA and protein expression We next investigated the ability of the proinflammatory cytokine IL-1β to induce neurotrophin expression in ... involvement of COX in the induction of BDNF but not of NGF To test this, we evaluated the effects of the COXinhibitors indomethacin and NS-398 (both 10 µM) on the secretion of these two neurotrophins ... mediators in BDNF induction Our finding that secretion of BDNF, but not NGF, was inhibited by the unselective COX inhibitor indomethacin and the COX-2 inhibitor NS-398 imply the prostaglandins as...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: "Detection, characterization and regulation of antisense transcripts in HIV-1" ppt
... for min., equilibrated at 50°C for and incubated in the presence of the reaction mix containing 1× RT buffer, µl of 2.5 mM dNTPs, 10 U of SuperAsin RNAse inhibitor (Ambion) and µl RT For certain ... mechanisms including binding to DNA-bound transcription factors [26] Although current model on the action of Tat through TAR binding on sense transcription favours an increase in the processivity of ... presence of the 24-6F primer in the PCR reaction was again controlled for in lanes 1–2 and 5– 6, which showed no clear signal indicative of this primer contamination in the PCR reaction The body of...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:22