Duncan Wood
Lehman board was kept in the dark about dwindling liquidity
Lehman Brothers' chief financial officer, Ian Lowitt, only told the bank's board the true size of its liquidity pool a few hours before the board voted to file for bankruptcy, according to a report published yesterday by the bankruptcy court-appointed examiner. In the months leading up to its September...
Out of their hands
Some regulators have suggested profits based on uncertain valuations of complex products should not be allowed to flow into earnings and be distributed in the form of dividends and bonuses – a move...
Thailand plans H2 launch for postponed inflation bond
Thailand plans to finally launch its crisis-delayed inflation-linked bond (ILB) programme in the second half of this year, an official in the country's Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) told Risk...
Greek woes focus attention on role of Eurostat
Politicians are aghast that Greece used cross-currency swaps with Goldman Sachs in 2001 to reduce its debt by several billion euros without disclosing it, but bankers and other observers are calling...
Future options
Tomorrow’s derivatives market looks likely to shift away from exotic products to focus more heavily on centrally cleared vanilla trades. Dealers hope to see a big jump in volumes, which will offset...
Lynch amendment spooks DTCC
As dealers and legislators debate reform of the over-the-counter derivatives market, at least one innocent bystander - the New York-based Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) - has been...
Del Missier: reforms won't end big derivatives profits
With politicians and regulators breathing down dealers' necks, some observers believe the banner year enjoyed by derivatives businesses in 2009 will prove to be a last hurrah. Jerry del Missier, the...
Greek woes revive seven-year old Goldman swap story
A Risk magazine article, written in 2003, has now been picked up by Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, City AM, Reuters, Reuters's Felix Salmon, the Financial Times and the Independent, among others. It outlines...
Regulators take aim at unrealised derivatives profits
Accounting changes promoting more fair-value reporting are forcing supervisors to consider radical restrictions on the way banks use profits.
Unrealised gains out of their hands
Some regulators have suggested profits based on uncertain valuations of complex products should not be allowed to flow into earnings and be distributed in the form of dividends and bonuses – a move...
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