Infrastructure/People
Jeff Sprecher & Sunil Hirani
The chairman and CEO of derivatives exchange ICE and the CEO of derivatives processing firm Creditex talk about the companies' recent merger, and how the CDS markets will cope with a unique set of challenges ahead
We're all Swensenians now
The appeal of commodities used to be the equity-like returns combined with low correlation to stocks and bonds. That all changed once the commodities bandwagon started rolling
Called to account
Dealers have criticised fair value accounting on illiquid assets as exacerbating the subprime crisis. A growing number of banks and industry bodies have called for a suspension of mark-to-market accounting for illiquid instruments. Are the accounting…
A new 'information age' for credit
Credit Crisis
Nigel Sillis
The director of fixed-income and currency research at Baring Asset Management talks to Matthew Attwood about bubbles, credit risk and mushroom picking
CDS clearing house tops regulators' to-do list in drive to tackle counterparty risk
The New York Fed is keen to establish a central clearing house for CDS, with CCorp poised to launch such a service. But will the recently merged Creditex-ICE throw its hat into the ring?
LDI and beyond
Pension Risk Management
The buck stops here
Practitioner profile
Meeting the challenges of internal models
Featured Article
A stochastic step forward
Technology
Chinese banks seek global standards
Risk management
Scenarios for all seasons
Technology
The victor emerges
Special Report: Regulator profile
STP for OTC
Straight-through processing
Oil and water do mix
Profile
Through the looking glass
ABS Valuations
Internal affairs
Operating models
Vicious circles
Risk Management
Lawsuits leave monolines' future in the balance
Two high-profile court cases involving FGIC and XL Capital Assurance could determine the fate of the troubled monoline insurance industry. If the verdicts go against the insurers, the damage would not just be to their reputation, but it would call into…