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How are banks improving their risk management techniques?
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
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Sponsored feature: BNY Mellon – focusing clients on their core activities...
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Prime brokers move to SAS 70 audits
Learning from the default of Lehman Brothers, a growing number of prime brokers are adapting their business model to ensure margin is segregated and secure, with some looking to win third-party validation for the controls they have in place. Which firms...
Signed and sealed?
A lawsuit filed by two major dealers against Bank of America alleges the firm failed in its role as custodian to prevent the loss of $1.7 billion held by a special-purpose entity. What impact could the case have on the future of custodial agreements?...
Derivatives law firm of the year - Linklaters
Lawyers specialising in insolvency, restructuring and derivatives have just experienced arguably one of their busiest 16 months. In filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers became the largest-ever corporate insolvency...
Independent variable
A paper detailing alternative approaches to posting independent amount is expected to be jointly published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Managed Funds Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association...
Winding down Lehman
In an exclusive interview with Risk, the administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) discuss their role in handling the largest bankruptcy in corporate history, revealing how the process has raised questions about prime brokerage agreements,...
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