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MSCI and Barclays partner to launch ESG fixed-income indexes
Link-up will allow institutional fixed-income investors to apply ESG investment strategies to their bond portfolios
Regulators are pinning their hopes on peer pressure to ensure consistent implementation of Basel III, but some of the new standards are still to be finalised, and the whole project could be blown off course...
Banks need more capital if they are to survive the worst eurozone scenarios being envisaged by some institutions, say Barry Schachter and Lance Smith
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Mining companies remain unhedged, despite Chinese clouds
After some painful experiences in recent years, mining companies remain largely unhedged – despite a jump in metals volatility and the threat of a Chinese downturn. Could they end up regretting it? Michael Watt reports
Corporate backlash on costs of regulation continues
Banks will not be able to avoid passing on the hefty costs of regulatory reform to their buy-side clients, argued participants at the ACI UK’s annual square mile debate
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...
New Prime Finance panel could tackle debt crisis disputes
An arbitration panel set up to tackle derivatives disputes could also tackle eurozone debt crisis issues, says Jeffrey Golden, architect of the Isda master agreement
No nosedive: markets could defy doom-mongers
Markets face a testing 2012 – but Stephen Blyth argues they are better-equipped to cope than in 2008
Need for speed: banks explore FPGAs for portfolio modelling
It can take hours for traditional bank systems to run portfolio risk models. That’s too slow for some banks, which are now exploring unwieldy – but quick – field-programmable gate arrays. By Clive Davidson
Top CROs worry about Basel III consistency
A new research report published this month by Risk reveals that CROs at the world’s largest banks are worried about the consistency of Basel III rules
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