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Top 10 articles on Risk.net in 2010
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A quick overview of the top ten articles across the whole of Risk.net in 2010 provides a roadmap of the year's main themes
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Regulators and politicians know what needs to be done to put the eurozone on an even keel and fix the holes exposed by the subprime crisis, says Mattias Persson, head of financial stability at the Sveriges...
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A financing transaction arranged for Riga by Deutsche Bank shows how local authorities can lay their hands on spending money without reporting it as debt.
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Binge then bust
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Politicians have recently expressed alarm at a cross-currency swap conducted between Greece and Goldman Sachs in 2001, which allowed the sovereign to reduce the debt it reported in its public accounts. But other examples now coming to light show the apparent...
Buy now, cry later
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The role of derivatives in sovereign and local government borrowing has been in the spotlight since February, when a 2001 cross-currency swap between Greece and Goldman Sachs hit the headlines again. That trade, first reported in Risk in 2003 (Risk...
Nordic bank SPVs start work on bad Baltic loans
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Nordic banks are beginning the long process of tidying up their bad Baltic property loans, with all four of the most exposed institutions creating special purpose vehicles (SPVs) in the last couple of months to take ownership of loan collateral. The strategy...
Swedish banks downplay Latvian threat
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A radical proposal to slash Latvian mortgage borrowers' liabilities has focused attention on the exposure Nordic banks have to the Baltic countries. Risk managers at these institutions say they can withstand the pain, but state support might be needed...
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