Opinion
Funding fears
Editor's letter
New Year resolutions look at hedge funds future in 2009
New Year is traditionally the time to take stock of the past year and look forward with hope and renewed energy to the year to come. In most countries at the stroke of midnight the New Year is heralded in by making a lot of noise. The origins of this…
Editor's letter
Editorial
Basel's not faulty
Basel II has attracted its fair share of criticism in the wake of the financial crisis. Ahmet Yetis argues much of this criticism is unfair
In thrall to the exchequer
Banks have accepted the bailout cash, but will this Faustian pact come back to haunt them?
Why Basel's not faulty
The tenets of the Basel II Capital Accord are fundamentally sound; it's the methods that the banks are using to implement them that are not so sound
My money's on covered bonds
An asset class that has prospered throughout some of the most turbulent times in modern European history must surely be a serious investment prospect during the current downturn
Striking a balance
Editor's letter
Basel III?
Kommentar
Letter to the editor
News
A torrid year
Editor's Letter
Corrosive feedback
Innovations create their own feedback loops, and many of these are dangerous. Risk managers need to pay greater attention to such effects in the future, argues David Rowe
L'era dell'intervenzionismo
Commento
Editor's letter
The credit-default-swap rate offers benefits that a credit rating does not, which is a perspective from the people who have to buy and sell the paper. Sometimes a solution to a problem comes along that is so simple it defies all the thought and toil that…
Column: Robin Keck
Vulture funds, or distressed debt funds as they would prefer you call them, are seeing a wealth of opportunities in the current trying conditions. So why aren't more funds being raised?
Liquidity outlook for corporates
Marketgraphic
The public interest
Editor's letter
