银行信息系统安全保障策略

计算机技术的广泛应用和网络技术的日益普及,使银行业务对计算机的依赖性越来越高。银行业涉及国计民生和国家安全,其业务运行必须建立在安全基础之上。信息系统安全已经成为关系到银行业务能否顺利开展的重要因素。银行信息系统的安全保障要以缜密的分析为前提,制定详细的对策     

加密技术为银行电子商务披上“防弹衣”

目前，电子支付、网上银行等电子商务服务在银行业务中所占比重加大，越来越多的客户借助计算机网络交换资金信息。因此保证网络上传递资金信息的安全，防止非法窃取和修改，成为银行网络信息化建设中的重要基础。计算机加密技术的使用为银行业务发展提供了安全保障。     

代码安全审查的实现

金融危机几乎笼罩全球每个角落，但国内银行毅然在寻找业务的发展与突破。安全问题被再次提上新的高度，只有全面、过硬的安全防护措施才能为银行业务顺利开展保驾护航。本栏目结合当前热点安全问题，节选代码安全审查方法实现、银行端点准入防御解决方案、网络金融的安全风险防范等方面文章，供行业同仁探讨。     

深入银行业务安全管理 发挥技术防范最大作用

当前,网络监控技术在银行安防系统中已得到广泛应用,但伴随银行安保环境的变化和银行业务的不断发展,银行网络监控技术出现了诸如联网程度不高、视频资源共享能力不足、安全性不够等新问题.随着网络监控对银行业务不断深入,安全管理标准不断提高,业务安全风险不断产生,业务安全控制措施不断提出,网络监控技术越来越成为银行业务部门的直接...     

强化事后监督工作的几点思考

事后监督是对业务活动自我控制的一种有效手段．在防蔽纠错、规范行为、保证资金安全、提高会计核算质量等方面发挥着重要作用。随着人民银行业务核算集中和支付系统的推广运行，业务核算风险种类越来越多。风险形式越来越复杂．监督责任越来越重．在业务监督中难免出现一些新的情况和新的问题。在认真总结前段实践的基础上．针对出现的问题以及解决的办法进行初探和思考。     

我国电子商务的网上支付的发展趋势

我国金融信息化发展已经初具规模，各金融机构都建成了自己的业务网络，并逐步支持公共网络的电子商务。近期目标是建立完整的中国金融数据通信网络、实现金融机构的互连互通和资源共享；建立健全现代化支付清算体系，为全社会提供安全、快捷、方便的支付结算服务；全面推广综合柜面业务系统和金融信息服务系统；完善金融监管体系，开发并推广综合金融监管系统；完善金融管理信息系统和办公自动化系统，提高防范金融风险的能力和办公效率；建立金融计算机安全体系，保障银行业务应用系统安全运行。……     

人行济南分行网络安全的设计与思考

本以金融系统网络安全为入口，在剖析人行济南分行网络现状及存在的安全隐患基础上，介绍了人行济南分行网络系统安全方案，提出了“网络安全中人是关键因素”的论点。     

移动支付促进银行业务创新

随着移动商务的增长，人们越来越多地使用移动电话和PDA等个人可编程移动通信装置。这些装置对于交易支付和银行结算业务的授权和管理，比通过PC在线支付更安全、更方便。这是可编程移动通信装置的优点。使用这种安全、方便的个人移动通信装置，可使支付业务、银行业务和投资业产生巨大变革。     

网上银行代理业务的设计与实现

随着现代银行业务逐步从传统业务转向新型的中间业务,代理业务在银行业务中取得了越来越重要的地位。越来越多的银行业务诸如网上开户、网上转帐等开始在互联网上开办,银行代理业务也将在互联网上展露头角,如何在互联网上设计代理业务系统,本文就这个问题做一些初步的探讨。一、代理业务的含义和发展状况什么是代理业务？按目前的发展情况应该这样理解,银行作为中介为具有支付关系的双方提供一定的服务,代理完成款项的转移。目前,该项业务发展很快,代理种类层出不穷,诸如代收电话费、电费、水费、煤气费、保险费、房租等,种类繁多…     

金融动态

人行济南分行开发推广银行帐户管理信息系统为了加强银行帐户管理,维护良好的支付结算秩序,济南分行委托东营中心支行开发了人民银行济南分行"银行帐户管理信息系统"。该系统与同城清算系统实时连接,是利用计算机和网络技术,对银行帐户的开立、撤消、变更等有关信息进行在线审批,报备及相关资信申报归档管理的金融服务和监管系统。于6月3日在东营市正式运行。11月7日由人民银行济南分行组织培训在山东省的烟台、     

Almanac of anticipations: The age of affluence—of anticipation—of anxiety—of automation—of discontinuity—of longing—of overkill—of space exploration

With this survey of developments in the futures field since 1945, I.F. Clarke completes his present series for Futures. He makes two major points: that forecasting techniques have become essential tools in the management of change; and that nuclear weapons and ecological problems have added a moral dimension to the study of the future. In the next issue of Futures he will start a new series on the range of future-thinking in the USA, from the expectations of the first settlers to the Star Wars programme.     

社会主义所有制形式的改革、完善与共产党执政能力的提高

在中国,所有制形式的调整、改革与完善,先进生产力的发展,党的执政能力建设,是社会主义建设过程中密切结合在一起的三个不同层面的发展关系.应在相互促进和共同提高中促进社会的和谐发展,保证社会主义现代化建设战略目标的顺利实现.     

基金公司经营融资融券业务的问题审视

融资融券业务正式运营已经开展,为证券市场带来了革命性的改革,作为证券市场的一大主体,基金公司面对融资融券也迎来了新的发展方向和挑战,本文从融资融券业务的运行机制入手,分析了基金公司融资融券的新契机,并对其即将面临的问题进行审视和剖析,进而提出策略建议.     

对基层人民银行科技工作的几点建议

银监会分设后,人民银行将专司货币政策、金融稳定、金融服务三大职能。作为人民银行的分支机构,基层人民银行的工作重心也将从金融监管调整到这三大职能上来。人民银行的科技部门,就要积极运用科技手段,为人民银行履行新的职能发挥“服务、支持、促进、发展”的作用。一、围绕三大职能搭建五大平台经过“六五打基础、七五作准备、八五大发展”几个阶段后,人民银行相继实现了核算电算化、清算网络化和办公信息化。特别是近一两年来,陆续开通了大额支付系统、信贷登记咨询系统、会计四集中系统、金融信息服务网站等系统,人民银行信息化水平又…     

Properties of time-series estimates of degree of leverage measures

Empirical studies suggest that time-series regression estimates of the degrees of operating and financial leverage have a tendency to produce measures less than one. According to ex ante theory, these measures should be greater than one for firms operating above the breakeven point. There have also been suggestions that the biases in these estimates may be attributable to an underlying increase in unit sales. This work presents evidence that these counter-intuitive measures are produced by changes in the firm's operating parameters (unit price, variable cost, fixed cost and interest payments). It further suggests that attempts to control for the underlying change in unit sales substantially increase the volatility of predicted estimates.     

浅议金融机构的举证责任

金融纠纷案件是当事人以存单或进账单、对账单、存款合同、保险单、票据、证券等凭证为主要证据向人民法院提出诉讼的案件,对于不同种类金融纠纷的当事人的举证责任,我国现行的金融法律、法规及司法解释有不同的规定。由于金融机构的特殊法律地位,发生金融纠纷时存在有关当事人将最后偿付风险转移给金融机构承担的主观故意,在客观上会使金融机构难以提供相应的证据来对抗不法债权人的诉讼请求,而导致金融机构败诉。为此,对金融诉讼案件中金融机构的举证责任加以研究具有重要的实践意义。     

The Usefulness of Measures of Consistency of Discretionary Components of Accruals in the Detection of Earnings Management

Abstract:  Prior research has shown the prevalence of measurement error in models used to estimate aggregate discretionary accruals. In these models, the incremental information content of the various components of accruals is ignored. Limited prior research and data gathered from firms under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) litigation indicate that managers use either one or more than one component of accruals simultaneously, in a consistent way to manipulate bottom-line earnings in a given direction. I propose two measures that capture the consistency between the discretionary components of accruals and test their significance in earnings management (EM) detection in firms that have artificially added accrual manipulation and firms that were targeted by the SEC for accrual manipulation. There is evidence that this information is incrementally useful in detecting EM. This finding paves the way for improvements in the discretionary accruals measure by including consistency information from the components of aggregate accruals.     

Summary of Results of Survey of Seminar Attendees

Abstract

The Society of Actuaries undertook a three-phase research project on mortality improvement in the three NAFTA countries: Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review of papers on projecting mortality levels in the future and a study of the trend in mortality improvement during this century. Phase 2 consisted of a discussion of different facets of modeling mortality rates at a seminar attended by 79 experts (actuaries, demographers, economists, and medical researchers) representing different countries. The last session of the seminar consisted of the completion of a survey by the attendees to obtain input for Phase 3, which would analyze the impact of mortality improvement on the social security system of each country. This paper summarizes the results of the survey.

The survey results illustrate the difficulty in forecasting mortality levels, because the effects of many factors that could have significant impact on mortality rates are unknown. This suggests the need for dynamic forecasting, which allows for the possibility of random shocks. A majority of the survey respondents believe that stochastic forecasting models, despite their complexity, have significant potential to add value. Respondents also believe that both historical data and cause-specific mortality forecasts are useful as input and also in validating forecasts of the aggregate levels of mortality. The challenge is to develop more sophisticated forecasting models to produce results that are relatively easy to interpret and to communicate these results to the desired audiences, including the public and policymakers.

The survey results suggest that the aggregate effect of lifestyle changes, medical advances, diseases, catastrophe, and physical environmental changes is an increase in life span. However, there is much uncertainty about the future. Respondents expect that beyond the year 2020 the mean annual rate of reduction in mortality for males age 65 and over will average about 0.58% for Canada, 0.76% for Mexico, and 0.67% for the U.S. The results for the female age 65 and over population are 0.64%, 0.83%, and 0.70%, respectively. The age 65 and over population is expected to see larger percentage reductions in mortality than the 0–14 and 15–64 populations. The reductions in male and female mortality will be ultimately the same, and the mortality levels in the three countries will ultimately converge, although differences may persist for decades.     

Separation of Unit of Account from Medium of Exchange

The separation of a unit of account (UoA) from a medium of exchange (MoE) in the commodity–money system is investigated by considering explicitly a seller's choice of UoA in terms of either an MoE or a unit of metal weight. If the likelihood of debasement of an MoE and its rate are high enough, the price is posted in terms of a unit of metal weight rather than an MoE. Interestingly, this MoE–UoA separated equilibrium yields the flexible nominal price, whereas an MoE–UoA integrated equilibrium yields the sticky one. This implies the nominal price rigidity in the fiat‐money system where MoE and UoA are integrated.