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The McGraw-Hill Companies and CME Group have announced the launch of S&P Dow Jones Indices. The joint venture, which brings together S&P Indices and Dow Jones Indexes, now calculates more than 830,000...
Loss-making unit's RWAs would have tripled under Basel III, JP Morgan chief executive says - but attempting to cut capital burden made its hedges more complex
In-house probe will look at role of internal model change, among other factors
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Risk awards 2012: JP Morgan takes the crown
JP Morgan scoops six categories in Risk’s annual awards, with Deutsche Bank winning three. Two colleagues from Danske Bank – Jesper Andreasen and Brian Huge – land the award for quantitative research, while Markit’s Lance Uggla wins the lifetime...
Risk awards 2012
Market participants have endured a 12-month period of dramatic upheaval. Despite the challenges they faced, some companies managed not just to survive but to thrive – and helped clients to do so, too. By Matt Cameron, Laurie Carver, Mauro Cesa, Clive...
Lifetime achievement award: Lance Uggla
Lance Uggla, chief executive of Markit, pauses a moment and opens a door: “You should see this,” he says. It’s impossible to know what lies behind that door, but the financial information services company Uggla founded with four former colleagues...
Middleware vendors face turf war with Sefs
Middleware vendors looked set to be big winners in the overhaul of over-the-counter derivatives markets, but they face competition from swap execution facilities. By Michael Watt
LCH.Clearnet appoints new CEO of CDSClear
UK-based clearer appoints Markit's former fixed-income director as chief executive of CDS clearing service
Illiquidity holding back CCDS, despite Basel III endorsement
Basel III allows contingent credit default swaps (CCDSs) to be used as a mitigant when calculating credit value adjustment. Advocates of CCDSs hope that will give the market some momentum – but others say the product will continue to suffer from a shortage...
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