Infrastructure/People
Striving high
End-User Survey 2008
Rating revised
Credit ratings
Regulatory reprieve
Special Report: Synthetic credit
Transition transmission
Asset management
A creditable target?
Operations
Employee surveillance: minimising operational risk and fraud through enhanced company-wide monitoring
Paul Henninger director, fraud solutions, at Actimize, outlines the four greatest practical threats afinancial firm faces, and suggests how they should be addressed
Risk convergence and implicationsfor GRC technology solutions
Technology often provides point solutions for specific risk disciplines, but better results can beachieved if risk management is converged within a single framework. Patrick O’Brien of OpenPagesoutlines the principles of effective GRC convergence and the…
Clearing the way ahead
The major credit derivatives dealers, along with the Clearing Corporation, are working to develop a central clearing house for over-the-counter credit derivatives trades. How will this initiative work, and are there are any rival schemes in the pipeline?…
"We're politically accountable"
Regulatory capital
The best scenario
Technology
A tough saddle to mount
Isda's chairman, Eraj Shirvani, talks to Alexander Campbell
Restoring ratings
CDO ratings
Broaden valuation options
In the same way credit risk managers used to question how a loan would be repaid if the primary means of payment were to fail, so banks ought to ask if there is another way to value structured credit investments if market liquidity were to dry up, argues…
The sewers of Jefferson County
Auction-rate Securities
Faltering flows
Prime broking
European Commissioner backs power exchange merger
EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs has backed the merger of Germany’s European Energy Exchange (EEX) and France’s Powernext to create single Franco-German power spot and futures markets.
Marking to market, to model or to matrix?
10. Mark-to-market
Monoline insurers and the super-senior bombshell
9. Monolines
The future for CDOs: An end to complexity?
12. The outlook
Buying power?
GSEs