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Asia-Pacific personal wealth growth soars ahead of US and Europe –...
The Asia-Pacific region has accounted for 54% of all new global wealth creation since 2010 and emerging markets are set to drive global wealth creation during the next five years, according to Credit Suisse's...
The exchange-traded notes (ETNs) market in the US and Europe is becoming more complementary and bespoke, while the enhanced exposure ETNs can provide is taking market access to the next stage. Sarah Nowakowska...
As investors shy away from equities, the creators of structured products are trying to replicate exposure to different markets using foreign exchange and attract a wider pool of investors who want to invest...
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Hiromi Yamaoka from the Bank of Japan, Masao Hasegawa from MUFG, and Takashi Oyama from Norinchukin Bank explain the lessons learned following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. These include the importance of comprehensive business continuity...
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Business continuity depends on effective and robust communications, as many companies only discovered in the wake of March’s disastrous earthquake in Japan
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Barclays Bank has listed a volatility exchange-traded note linked to the S&P Vix Short-Term Futures Index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Video: BoJ’s Hiromi Yamaoka on the failure of global rulemakers to learn...
Experience from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s showed the importance of maintaining the core intermediation function of banks by not placing an excessive regulatory burden on them, a lesson that US and European regulators may have failed to grasp,...
Asian reinsurance costs soar by up to 40% due to natural disaster payouts...
A number of major natural disasters during the past year has increased reinsurance costs in Asia, with some Japanese insurers seeing a rise of 20% or more in the cost of reinsurance. But demand for reinsurance is still growing, according to Moody’s...
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Risk Japan 2011: Too-big-to-fail rules should be scrapped in favour...
Japan looked at the need to impose excess capital for systemically important financial institutions in the 1990s and rejected it in favour of ‘bridge banks’ which could inherit losses in the event of a major bank getting into trouble. One university...
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