Feature/Commodities
Banks and commodities: against the tide
Introduction
It’s all in the technique
Fund manager profiles
Gold shines again
Private clients
Slow start for World Bank hedging programme
Emerging markets
Confidence is critical
OTC clearing
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems.
Firms Voice Frustration over FSA Continuity Plans
Firms say "toothless" disaster recovery guidelines will result in inconsistent plans.
CLNs come of age
Technical
Bondholders versus shareholders
Sponsored article
Equity poses the big questions
Roundtable
Boom time for distressed debt
Distressed debt
European telcos: mixed signals
Credit of the month
Why won’t banks grasp the op risk nettle?
OP RISK MANAGEMENT
Fully operational
Modeling, measuring and hedging operational risk by Marcelo Cruz Wiley Finance 330 pages, £49.39 ISBN 0-471-51560-4
Q1 scapegoats: energy and weather
Risk’s second quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures provides some evidence that companies are becoming more forthcoming. But losses on hedgeable exposures, especially energy and weather, continued to plague many
A crisis of identity
Recent news stories have highlighted a controversy over identification of the specific reference entity in certain credit derivatives contracts. Troubling as this is, it reflects a more pervasive lack of discipline among financial institutions. In this…
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems
Tools for the trade
Credit Risk