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Financial Services Publications
Catalogue of KPMG's Financial Services online publications.
Newsletters
Basel Briefings
This quarterly newsletter examines the significant changes in banking regulation that will result as the Basel Capital Accord is implemented over the next few years.
Insurance Issues
KPMG newsletter providing commentary and analysis on tax, accounting, management and general business issues in the Canadian insurance industry.
Real Estate News
KPMG's weekly newsletter covers current developments in the Canadian real estate industry.
Current Developments: Income Trusts and Real Estate Investment Trusts
Covering Canadian tax, regulatory and financial reporting developments of particular interest and relevance to income trusts and REITs.
Publications
Navigating the Storm: Charting a path to recovery?
Despite the deepest recession in 60 years, the construction industry is surprisingly positive about its future prospects.
Getting the balance right: Long-term capital, risk, and regulatory challenges for insurers
This publication delves into the challenges of risk and capital management in an increasingly regulated insurance environment.
Climate Change: Risks & Opportunities in the Canadian Commercial Real Estate Market
This piece addresses how the commercial real estate industry can maximize its investments while minimizing specific risks around its impact on the environment.
2009 Financial Statements of Canadian Banks
KPMG’s Financial Services practice is pleased to present 2009 edition of Financial Statements of Canadian Banks. This publication is designed to act as a reference for those preparing bank financial statements by compiling common reporting and disclosure requirements.
Renewing the Promise: Time to mend relationships in investment management
This publication draws on the findings from our global survey of investment managers, investors and senior executives and provides analysis on how the industry will develop as a result.
Converting IFRS into IT
Converting IFRS into IT provides a perspective on the pivotal role IT personnel and departments play during a successful conversion to IFRS reporting.
Hungry for More? Acquisition appetite and strategy in the private banking and wealth management industry
The private banking and wealth management industry remains in a confident frame of mind.
The Beating Heart of Banking
KPMG International interviewed senior representatives of industry regulators, major banks, and financial technology companies about the driving forces in the global payments industry over the next 5 years.
A Glimmer of Hope
Growth prospects in the global insurance industry and the escalation of risk and capital management.
Vancouver Real Estate: Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
Over the past eight years, the Vancouver real estate market, both residential and commercial, has experienced strong growth. The effects of the US subprime mortgage meltdown brought an abrupt end to this long cycle.
Managing risk in perilous times
This report is based on a program of in-depth interviews with leading participants from the financial services industry, along with a selection of independent risk professionals.
Never again? Risk management in banking beyond the credit
The credit crisis has forced banks to take a critical look at how they manage risk and has exposed some significant weaknesses in risk management across the financial services industry.
Impact of IFRS on Canadian Life Insurers
This publication highlights some of the top accounting issues likely to arise when life insurance companies adopt IFRS.
Impact of IFRS on Canadian Property & Casualty Insurers
This publication highlights some of the top accounting issues likely to arise when property & casualty insurance companies adopt IFRS
Impact of IFRS on the Real Estate Industry
This publication highlights some of the top accounting issues likely to arise when real estate insurance companies adopt IFRS
frontiers in finance
frontiers in finance is a regular publication from KPMG’s Financial Services practice. It covers topics relevant to financial services institutions around the globe.
2008 Financial Statements of Canadian Banks
KPMG’s Financial Services practice is pleased to present 2008 edition of Financial Statements of Canadian Banks. This publication is designed to act as a reference for those preparing bank financial statements by compiling common reporting and disclosure requirements.
Focus on transparency: KPMG’s latest benchmarking report on IFRS disclosures
Focus on transparency aims to shed light on the areas that European financial institutions have found most challenging in presenting and disclosing financial information.
Beyond the baby boomers: the rise of Generation Y - Opportunities and challenges for the funds management industry
KPMG International has undertaken a thought leadership project which focuses how the global funds management industry is engaging with Generation Y (people now aged 15 – 30 years).
China's city commercial banks: Opportunity knocks?
There has been mounting interest in China's large and problematic banking sector as foreign institutions continue to jockey for position. This research report provides fact-driven analysis and viewpoints on the opportunities and risks within the banking sector in China.
Globalizing the Risk Business: Surviving and competing in the global insurance industry
KPMG International commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to produce this report, which explores how insurers and re-insurers can adapt their business models in response to global competition and increased consolidation.
Foreign Insurers in China: opportunity and risk
This report, compiled by KPMG Hong Kong in collaboration with Reuters, surveys the risks and opportunities for foreign companies in China's insurance industry and discusses the critical success factors.
Implementing IFRS in the Insurance Industry
Conversion to IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) has posed challenges for companies worldwide. To assess the effect of those challenges, KPMG sought the views of 47 insurers in this survey conducted in 2006.
Insurance accounting under IFRS
This publication provides an overview of IFRS 4 and selected sections of other IFRSs applicable to insurers.
Solvency II Briefing
Solvency II is the ‘next big thing’ in the insurance world. It is intended to create a framework within which European insurance and reinsurance regulation operates. The introduction is a highly complex and challenging process. It is also a process with which KPMG firms are heavily involved, having undertaken the original study for the EU that recommended the proposed Three Pillar Approach.
Studies and White Papers
Basel II: A Worldwide Challenge for the Banking Business
This KPMG white paper describes the significance of the Basel II Capital Accord, which is being implemented in 2006.
Basel II: Managing Economic Capital
This KPMG white paper discusses the evolving importance of economic capital planning for banks as a result of Basel II and as an important means of adding business value.
Basel II: Managing Operational Risk
This KPMG white paper describes the growing importance of treating operational risk as a separate category of risks.
Global Anti-Money Laundering Survey 2007
KPMG’s 2007 Global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Survey explores the range of challenges that banking institutions face in complying with global AML requirements.
Global Investment Management in the 2000s
This thought leadership report is a collaborative effort between the think-tank CREATE and KPMG International.
Hedge funds: a catalyst reshaping global investment
The recent unprecedented surge in the demand for hedge funds will ease as the industry commoditizes, according to a new study published by CREATE, the UK think tank, and KPMG.
Hungry for More?
Acquisition appetite and strategy in the global private banking and wealth management industry.
Raising the Performance
Bar: challenges facing global investment management in the 2000s
A KPMG-sponsored study finds that global fund management firms are radically restructuring their business models to regain investor confidence.
Ready for Basel II - how prepared are the banks?
This publication presents the results of KPMG’s 2003/2004 survey, “Eight Questions on Basel”, of the banking industry’s readiness for implementation of the New Basel Accord.
Risk and Capital Management: a new perspective for insurers
This white paper reviews the challenges the insurance industry faces in allocating precious capital in a highly competitive, risk-focused marketplace.
Risk & Capital Management for Insurers - second annual survey
This survey of 294 insurance companies from 43 countries examines current capital assessment practices in relation to overall risk management and future expectations of insurers, especially in how insurance providers are shaping up ahead of Solvency II
The Future of the Finance Function
This KPMG publication summarizes a roundtable discussion with four influential Canadian banking Chief Financial Officers, which was held during KPMG’s Annual Bank Seminar in September 2006.
Towards enhanced business governance - Causes and consequences in global investment
KPMG International has produced a report which summarizes the views of CEOs, CIOs and Executive Directors from over 192 companies in 25 different countries on the recent changes in the governance practices in global investment management and their resulting impacts. The study shows that although process and controls remain important, fund managers are also turning to cultural and behavioural initiatives to reinforce good business governance on a global basis. It also reveals the key beneficial impacts these initiatives had on business performance.
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