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Asia Risk held its inaugural risk management conference in Hanoi on April 26, where speakers and delegates debated best practice tools and techniques in financial risk and treasury management
In 2011, policymakers worldwide face the twin challenge of maintaining economic growth while containing inflationary pressures. It was a challenge they managed in 2010, but there are already strong signs...
As the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis rumbles on into 2011, the threat of a country defaulting and even exiting the currency union grows ever more real. Credit looks at the remaining options available...
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Ireland crisis ratchets up fears of further peripheral Eurozone woes
Six months on from the rescue of Greece, Ireland accepted a massive €85 billion IMF-EU bailout package in November. But with growing fears of the contagion spreading to other peripheral countries, is the Eurozone crisis set to shift up a gear?
France public debt levels start to make credit investors twitchy
As problems in peripheral Europe dominated the headlines through the spring and summer of 2010, capital flowed into the government bonds of “core Europe”, including France. But does France deserve that sobriquet or have the financial problems of both...
Nouriel Roubini interview: Fixing the Eurozone will be 'mission impossible...
In an interview with Credit, economist Nouriel Roubini talks about the danger that sub-par US and European growth becomes entrenched, and offers his views on whether Ireland and other peripheral Eurozone countries will be able to solve their debt woes...
Retirement of baby boomer generation heralds shift to fixed income
Developed countries are facing up to large demographic imbalances as the baby boomer generation retires and pensioners live ever longer. As baby boomers leave employment and shift savings into new vehicles to fund their retirement, will credit benefit?...
‘Deleveraging is a brutal process – but it is necessary’: William Cunningham...
William Cunningham, head of global credit strategies at State Street, believes private sector deleveraging and the rise in public sector borrowing will continue, to the benefit of corporate bond investors. He explains why policy risk is the biggest threat...
Global economic slowdown raises risk of protectionism
Action by governments and central banks around the world has sparked fears of currency and trade wars. Already, the fault lines between the emerging and developed worlds are at risk of being prized further apart. With skirmishes between nations likely...
Advanced economies risk slipping into Japan-style 'lost decade'
Analysts have expressed concern that advanced economies in the West are slipping inexorably towards an extended period of deflation and low growth reminiscent of Japan’s infamous ‘lost decade’ of the 1990s. Credit reports on the steps US and European...
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