Governments and agencies
Where credit's due
Reform of Japan's public sector has been a drawn-out process, and there's still a lot of uncertainty over issues such as the likely risk profile of restructured government bodies. But credit quality is...
Bisher ließen sich Regierungen bei ihrer begrenzten Nutzung von Derivaten nicht in die Karten schauen. Doch manche weiten ihre Mandate jetzt auf ein breiteres Risikospektrum aus und wenden sich vermehrt...
Governments have traditionally kept their limited use of derivatives close to their chests. But some sovereigns are now broadening their mandates to encompass a wider array of risks and they are increasingly...
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Powering up its bond markets
The Russian corporate bond markets are broadening. More issuance is expected from previously inactive sectors and securitisation is developing into more esoteric assets. Risks to future growth include a dip in the price of commodities. Alan McNee reports...
The German deficit dilemma
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After the storm
US public finance entities have piled into interest rate swaps. But the derivatives revolution has sparked controversy, and even prompted a fallout between leading trade groups and a major rating agency. By Navroz Patel
Inflated expectations?
Inflation bonds are the current vogue product for sovereign debt management. With more countries looking to enter the market, banks are keen to exploit a lucrative business source. But do inflation bonds really offer sovereigns the promised benefits?...
The world turns to hedging
The world of municipal, agency and sovereign finance is changing rapidly. In this debut edition of our Governments and agencies supplement, we look at the risk management ramifications of some of the changes taking place in the public finance markets....
Fannie and Freddie:
US agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the most voracious users of interest rate hedging tools, especially swaptions and related instruments, which they use to hedge their vast mortgage portfolios. Naomi Humphries asks them about their main...
Hedging the world
The world’s leading private sovereign lenders were battered last year by the Argentinian crisis and escalating currency and interest rate volatility. How has the world’s leading multilateral weathered the storm? Naomi Humphries asks World Bank chief...
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