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Asia lukewarm on European banking asset sell-off
A combination of market and regulatory pressures is forcing European banks to deleverage their balance sheets and offload some of their asset portfolios, creating a potential opportunity for Asian financial...
Macquarie is considering shutting its structured products and exotics business in Europe as a result of unfavourable market conditions. The alarm bells were sounded were last December, when Todd Steinberg,...
Market coupling projects continue to spread across Europe, bringing the market closer to achieving a single power price – but challenges still lie ahead. In the first article in a series focusing on...
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Eurozone scenario analysis goes microscopic
When Risk first wrote about scenario analysis of the eurozone debt crisis in June 2010, banks were sketching out a variety of outcomes and then attaching rough market moves to them. The scenarios themselves were as dramatic as any being considered today...
Dealers tackle euro redenomination risks
Dealers have been busy war-gaming eurozone break-up scenarios in recent months. But one of the most complex, and uncertain, areas is what would happen to derivatives contracts in the event one or more member states leave the eurozone. By Matt Cameron...
Q&A: Michael Spencer on Europe, Tobin taxes, OTC reform and futures...
A Europe-wide trading tax is under discussion in Paris and Frankfurt, but has no chance of being approved by the UK, Icap’s chief executive Michael Spencer tells Duncan Wood
Esma: questions grow as Emir deadline looms
The European Union’s securities markets authority will have to tackle an alphabet soup of new regulations and directives this year – Emir, Mifid and Mifir among them – with a staff smaller than that of Iceland’s national regulator. Can it handle...
Sovereign risk adjustments adds to demand for bond ETFs
Sovereign risk in Europe has taken on a whole new meaning since the onset of the eurozone crisis, so ETF providers are having to adapt
Icap's Spencer: 'not a prayer' of UK agreeing to FTT
Proposed EU trading tax would be vetoed by UK, says Icap's Spencer - if not, the broker will move its London HQ to New York
Japan still backs EFSF despite threat to AAA rating
The expectation that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade France and Austria will have a knock-on impact on the EFSF will not deter further Japanese investment in its bonds, says Japanese official
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