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Meteor plan gives investors exposure to emerging markets
Meteor Asset Management has announced the launch of an emerging markets plan, offering the potential for a 75% return on investment. The five-year Emerging Markets Kick-Out Plan aimed at the UK market...
Santander is the largest financial franchise in Latin America, but that does not prevent it from acting with agility and foresight. Leveraging its expertise and capabilities in western Europe – with...
Arc is offering a sterling-denominated play on emerging markets - specifically the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ETF and Hang Seng China Enterprise Index - which promises returns of 16% for each year...
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CDS premiums boost option participation in structured products
Participation rates and coupons in structured products are being boosted by premiums from credit default swaps (CDS) sold on sovereign and corporate entities, say dealers.
Op risk centre stage
Strict bank oversight and isolation from the global banking community means Brazilian banks are insulated from the worst of the crisis, but they are not immune. Domingos Figueiredo de Abreu, executive director at Bradesco, talks to John Rumsey about the...
Australia, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Mexico and Russia join Basel...
The Basel Committee expands to recognise the leading developing nations and those economies outside the West leading in Basel II development
Brazil faulty
Brazil's stock market has come under severe pressure in recent weeks, while the real has plunged following an exodus of foreign capital. Nonetheless, BM&F Bovespa sees the current focus on counterparty risk as an opportunity. By Donna Haws
Incisive Itau
Banco Itau is one of the few banks in the Brazilian structured products market that is able to structure and distribute both capital-protected funds and synthetic structured notes. The fact that the bank can also hedge most of its products in-house has...
In search of flexible friends
The onshore Brazilian retail structured products market could embrace a new structured instrument next year, which would bring much-needed flexibility to a highly restrictive environment. Recent regulations for mutual funds have also given foreign banks...
Brazil looks to controls
New legislation in Brazil on banking systems and controls has triggered a flood of sales from large accountancy firms and specialist service providers. John Rumsey looks at the new rules and how Brazilian banks are responding
How can investment banks use grid technology?
Learn how technology is enhancing risk management
Technology can provide a competitive advantage in banking. How it is applied by Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutions, to the benefit for their risk management systems, is discussed.
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