Central banks/Economics
ABB: a mixed outlook
Hold
Floating towards disaster
Argentine peso risk
Dealing with the flak
Profile
Turkish crossover
Turkey
Down but not out
Non-deliverable forwards
Rising levels of interest
Interest rate derivatives
Will Germany scupper Basel II?
How real is Germany’s threat to veto the proposed Basel II bank capital accord if the country fails to get the concessions it wants on the accord’s treatment of bank lending to small to medium-sized companies (SMEs)?
ICI prospects looking bleak
Limited upside potential
Will Germany scupper Basle II?
BASLE II UPDATE
Pro-cyclicality in the new Basel Accord
Could Basel II worsen recessions? By backtesting the proposed capital rules to the last recession, D. Wilson Ervin and Tom Wilde argue that the increased risk sensitivity of loan portfolio regulatory capital in the new Accord could have unwelcome…
A credit conundrum
Credit risk