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Think locally, act locally: Anger over US plans for foreign banks
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The Federal Reserve is planning a radical departure from traditional supervision by requiring the local offshoots of foreign banks to meet US capital and liquidity rules. Overseas banks are furious...
EDITOR'S LETTER
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Getaways are supposed to be quick. Traditionally, a car stands idling by the kerb with its doors open while a jittery driver smokes behind the wheel, ready...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
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Firms used to be able to throw anything they liked into the hypothetical derivative that is used to test cashflow hedge accounting, but standard-setters...
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Risk & Energy Risk commodity rankings 2013: Metals
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In a torrid year for metals traders, Société Générale retained pole position in base metals, with UBS again leading the way in precious metals. Tom...
Risk & Energy Risk commodity rankings 2013: Energy
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Muted volatility, sluggish trading activity and regulatory changes have conspired to create a tough environment for energy market participants over...
OTC market faces up to CCP-dependent pricing
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Where multiple clearing houses cover the same products, dealers expect pricing differentials to emerge. That is causing friction with buy-side firms...
Ice-NYSE Euronext: Good or bad for margin offsets?
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Ice’s December announcement of a planned $8.2 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext sets up a battle for over-the-counter clearing supremacy in the...
Basel III blues: US politicians push for new QIS
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Basel III is losing traction. Already hit by implementation delays and a loss of support from senior policy-makers, some US politicians are now calling...
"Deceptive and negligent": How the first CPDO got its AAA rating
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An extraordinary Australian court judgement shines a light on the errors and deceit that led to the granting of an AAA rating to ABN Amro’s Surf constant...
Dutch counsel confident of success as S&P faces new CPDO case
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The fine handed out by an Australian court last year to ABN Amro and Standard & Poor’s was a rare success for post-crisis litigants in structured credit...
ESRB narrows its macro-prudential tools
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The European Systemic Risk Board is about to announce a slimmed-down list of potential macro-prudential tools, but who has the power to use them is...
Macro-prudential supervision: the case against
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The financial crisis could have been averted if regulators had been allowed to prick the credit bubble as it was inflating – or so claim advocates of...
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In-depth introduction: CPDOs
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The brochure, dated October 2006, refers to “a breakthrough in synthetic credit investments”, trumpeting the new product’s AAA rating and claiming...
Cutting Edge introduction: Goodwill for DVA
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The debit valuation adjustment is a controversial concept when applied to derivatives liabilities, but it has won accountants round. Further thought...
Algomi: Former UBS platform guru pushes aggregation
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As market-makers lose their risk-taking capacity, one technology start-up argues the answer is to aggregate both liquidity and information. By Tom Newton...
LCR changes result from regulatory high-wire act
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The recent easing of the Basel III liquidity coverage ratio is welcome, but highlights the difficult – perhaps impossible – regulatory challenge of...
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Grundmann joins JP Morgan as head of investor services
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Grundmann joins JP Morgan from BNY Mellon; HSBC Securities Services appoints global head of transfer agency and distribution support; Northern Trust...
People: Morgan Stanley announces cuts in equity and forex
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Morgan Stanley cuts at least 20 jobs in forex and equity derivatives; RBS fixed income head Rading departs; commodities head Silbert leaves Deutsche
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