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Commodities

Capital thinking

Manuel Méndez aims to have BBVA among the first to qualify for Basel II’s advanced risk capital approaches.

01 Apr 2002

Infrastructure

Goldman Sachs project aims to ease disputes over data

01 Apr 2002

People

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.

01 Apr 2002

Technology

Servicing the e-industry

Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together

01 Apr 2002

Technology

Technology briefs

01 Apr 2002

Markets

Scaling the wall

Corporate hedging

01 Apr 2002

Structured products

Talent spotting

Ronald Neumunz tells Jeff Benjamin why LJH is drawn to Europe and how the company plans to capitalise on the emerging hedge fund management talent

12 Mar 2002

Structured products

'The Day the Bubble Burst'

By Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (1979)

12 Mar 2002

Technology

Drivers of dollar swap spreads

Fixed0income strategy

11 Mar 2002

Structured products

Squeezing the best from hedge fund diversification

Hedge fund investing

11 Mar 2002

Insurance

New disclosure rule boosts pension risks

FRS 17

11 Mar 2002

Energy

Merchants’ Exchange expands into energy futures

The Merchants’ Exchange, the tiny St Louis-based independent trying to make a niche for itself in electronic commodity derivatives trading, is to list six new energy futures contracts.