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CBU director of policy to quit FSA
Sheila Nicoll to leave in April when the FSA transitions to the FCA
Pension funds could soon have to bear the cost of a Europe-wide tax on equity, bonds, currency and derivative transactions, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
While equity markets tumbled in the period between July 2007 and June this year, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have doubled their assets as beta investing is back in vogue, says Deutsche Bank. Futures...
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FRC proposals on governance welcomed
Proposals from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to reform the UK’s combined code of corporate governance have been given a cautious welcome by financial institutions. The FRC presented proposals to establish a new UK corporate governance code...
The transparency tide
The issue of counterparty risk and how best to convey it to retail investors dominated the agenda at the Structured Products Europe conference. Delegates explored ways of identifying and mitigating risk, while the rise in structured funds and regulation...
IMA sparks feud after slating structured products
The Investment Management Association (IMA) has ignited conflict with structured product providers after questioning the transparency and regulation of structured products. At the UK Financial Services Authority's (FSA) Asset Management Conference on...
Operational risk versus credit risk: Similarities and differences
Many attempts have been made to adapt credit risk models to quantify operational risk. In this article, Gerrit Jan van den Brink of Dresdner Bank and KPMG's Thomas Kaiser compare op risk and specific credit risk models in terms of input data, methodology...
A better approach to operational risk aggregation
Professor Carol Alexander proposes an aggregation methodology that takes account of dependencies between op risk losses that have some common risk drivers.
Small firms welcome EU proposals
BRUSSELS - European investment firms welcomed the European Commission's decision to create a special regime for them in terms of the operational risk provisions of proposed new capital adequacy rules, according to trade bodies representing the firms....
The Basle II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
This summary has been updated to include the revisions to the Basle II op risk proposals contained in the Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk issued in September, 2001 and available on the Bank for International Settlements’...
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