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Asia sets the pace
Technology suppliers throughout Asia are increasingly customising their technology services to meet the demands of clients in the region and exporting these techniques to Europe and the US. Against this...
The number of bulk purchase annuity deals in the UK has grown rapidly over the past year. What is behind the new-found willingness of pension funds to offload their liabilities? Ryan Davidson investigates...
Switzerland is making a bid to attract more hedge fund managers. While it has had success in the fund of hedge fund sector, single managers elude the Alpine state. Jamie Wynn-Williams looks at the fund...
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Striving high
Volatile markets and uncertainty on future trends have meant delivering appropriate hedging and investment solutions to Asian clients in the past year has proven no easy task. Asia Risk's ninth end-user survey highlights the banks that clients believe...
Lawsuits leave monolines' future in the balance
Two high-profile court cases involving FGIC and XL Capital Assurance could determine the fate of the troubled monoline insurance industry. If the verdicts go against the insurers, the damage would not just be to their reputation, but it would call into...
Unite and conquer
This year's OR&C compliance software rankings show distinctions blurring, both between software companies as the market consolidates, and between survey categories as financial institutions take a more integrated approach to compliance. David Benyon assesses...
French hedge funds see government regulations as a challenge
While London is still the centre of the European hedge fund industry France is becoming an important location for hedge fund managers. Jamie Wynn-Williams reports
Restoring ratings
Trust in credit ratings has been tarnished due to the subprime crisis, heaping pressure on agencies to make changes to the way they rate collateralised debt obligation tranches. But market participants are already accusing one firm of going too far. Mark...
A tough year
High volatility and rising correlation, combined with a drying up of liquidity, has made it a tough year for institutional investors. In this environment, asset managers have voted Deutsche Bank the top provider of derivatives in 2008. By Wietske Blees,...
A clearer picture
Fraud has gone to the top of the postmortem on the US subprime debacle. To detect and prevent it, more information at the loan level is needed, and the standardisation of data would also help investors in mortgage-backed securities make better decisions,...
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