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Editor's letter: The ghost of Enron
Allegations of manipulation in US power markets inevitably stir up memories of Enron. After the Houston-based energy giant’s collapse, it was found to have exploited loopholes in California’s electricity...
Unpredictable consequences of political interference and central bank intervention on markets are set to continue in 2013. Hedge fund managers need to cope with the new reality and boost performance.
The new year will bring some dramatic changes - few of them good news for operational risk managers. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), originally set to come into force at the start of...
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Bucking the trend: Derivatives market liberalisation in China
In contrast to regulatory efforts in the US and Europe, China’s lawmakers are pushing for greater liberalisation of domestic derivatives, as Isda’s Jing Gu writes
The clearing revolution
New rules on over-the-counter derivatives are set to have a significant impact on the insurance industry. The rules, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation in Europe and the US Dodd-Frank Act, will require certain OTC derivatives to be centrally...
What regulation means for traders: Less freedom, more work, new skills
Post-crisis regulation tends to be spoken about in pretty cold, impersonal terms – the pressure on bid-offer spreads or return-on-equity, for example. It’s easy to forget there is another type of impact – on the people who work in these markets...
Basel faulty
Having been broadly supportive of global bank capital standards over the past 25 years, David Rowe explains why the latest iteration of the framework has changed his stance
CCAR: a new holiday tradition
US bank risk managers are getting used to spending their winter festive period knee-deep in scenario analysis and stress-test data instead of relaxing by a log fire. And the tradition looks here to stay
US and them – Aaron Woolner column
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Editor's letter: More effort required
“Good government should take a measured, well-thought out approach to developing a new regulatory regime.” Not the words of Thomas Jefferson, but Scott O’Malia, a Washington, DC-based commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....
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