Feature/Economics
Emerging adequacy
The Committee of Chief Risk Officers’ capital adequacy ‘emerging practice’ guidelines will, says the capital adequacy committee chair, evolve into a new regulatory body within a year. James Ockenden reports
US autos: grinding to a halt
Credit of the month
Bursting the bubble
Credit of the month
Sweeping it under the carpet
German securitisation
Japanese banks: Turning up the heat
Japan's banks have faced a gruelling few months in the run-up to the fiscal year-end, with a plunge in equity prices putting severe pressure on capital ratios. But a further crisis may be just around the corner, writes Nick Sawyer.
Buyers and sellers of CDSs
CDS guide: market participants
Bayer: a bitter pill to swallow
Credit of the month
Turning up the heat
Japanese banks
US retreat hits European trading
The retreat of US energy firms from energy trading has reportedly hit European volumes hard. But volumes aside, James Ockenden finds that the withdrawal may bring a fundamental change in the market. With additional reporting by Eurof Thomas
A stimulating approach
Dividend Tax
Any port in a storm
Safe havens
Sponsor's article > Don't count on buffers
One possible mitigator of the pro-cyclical impact of risk-sensitive capital requirements would be counter-cyclical changes in capital buffers. Empirical evidence on this issue is scarce and a new regulatory capital regime could well induce a behavioural…
The lessons of war
Cover story
Tyco: pulling itself together
Credit of the month
Software survey 2003
Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.
Credit roundup
Roundtable
Crossovers: mind the gap
Credit of the month
RiskNews review
The leading stories from RiskNews
Software survey 2003
Survey
A rollercoaster ride
Foreign exchange
RiskNews review
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