Profile/Regulation
Profile: UBS on the past and future of fixed income
Swiss bank's fixed-income trading floor is home to two distinct businesses
Lawmakers must work 'in symmetry', says Iosco chief
Co-ordinating regulatory reform is no easy task, says David Wright
State Street's Kenny: Leaving AMA parallel run just the start
Operational risk head calls for better benchmarking across industry
The House of Lords: looking for gaps in EU financial reform
Chair of Lords subcommittee says UK neglect of Europe is "criminal"
Federal insurance oversight is the wrong move, Connecticut regulator says
Post-crisis reforms take supervision to the wrong level
WM Datenservice: "Emir was too fast"
Germany’s issuer of legal entity identifiers opened for business almost 12 months ago, but demand only surged in the weeks leading up to Europe’s February 12 reporting deadline
Who is Timothy Massad?
He cooks, he’s quiet, he’s confident, and he will cope with everything Wall Street throws at him. That is the picture painted by former colleagues – and adversaries – of the US Treasury Department’s Timothy Massad, probable new chairman at the Commodity…
GE Capital dealing with Sifi status and AMA push
Systemically important status is hard enough when you're a bank – for non-bank institutions such as GE Capital, meeting the mark can be even more challenging. Enterprise and operational risk leader Ann Rodriguez discusses the reform process with OpRisk
Avoid one-size-fits-all capital approach, says Osfi’s Zelmer
Regulators have increasingly been pushing for less reliance on bank internal models, but Osfi’s deputy superintendent of the regulation sector, Mark Zelmer, thinks internal models have a place
Senator Crapo urges Dodd-Frank tweaks and CFTC-SEC merger
United Senate?
Building better benchmarks in Dubai: DME's Chris Fix on running an oil exchange
Top of the agenda for the Dubai Mercantile Exchange and its chief executive, Christopher Fix, is assuring the integrity of its crude oil benchmark. He talks to OpRisk about the operational challenges stemming from the exchange’s unique regulatory…
Javelin Capital Markets: The gate-crasher
The countdown to mandatory trading on swap execution facilities started last month when Javelin Capital Markets became the first Sef to file a product list with US regulators. Its chief executive, Jamie Cawley, tells Peter Madigan why market participants…
IMF: Making Basel III work in emerging markets
For many countries, Basel III is not an all-or-nothing choice. Part of Michaela Erbenova's job at the IMF is to help them work out which bits make sense. By Lukas Becker
Profile: Standard Chartered's Feder on Singapore benchmark changes
A charter for change
Sigtarp promises more aggressive prosecutions in US
The US has taken an aggressive stance in prosecuting those involved in the financial crisis. The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (Sigtarp) has so far jailed 43 individuals for fraud, waste and abuse related to Tarp…
DBS: Asian backlash over regulatory fragmentation
The crisis did not start in Asia, but Asian countries have been among the first to implement the resulting capital and liquidity regime – while the US and Europe have yet to move. The result is an unlevel playing field, says Elbert Pattijn, chief risk…
CFTC’s O’Malia: Sef rules could favour Europe
The CFTC has a lot on its plate, including Sef rules, dealing with the extraterritorial impact of its regulations, and working out how best to manage the huge amount of data coming its way
LSE: "Banking crises are unavoidable"
There is only one way to avoid a banking crisis, according to the co-director of a new London School of Economics research centre - and that's not to have a banking system. By Laurie Carver
CFTC: O'Malia on a mission to fix Dodd-Frank flaws
With the end of the agency's marathon Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking in sight, CFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia wants to go back and fix what he sees as mistakes. By Peter Madigan
Profile: FSA's Jo Paisley, on data, modelling and the Bank of England
The Financial Services Authority has a Bank of England veteran heading its risk division as it is subsumed by the central bank. Jo Paisley tells Laurie Carver how the two disparate cultures can be reconciled – particularly when it comes to data
Turning points: Jill Sommers, CFTC
As she prepares to leave the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Jill Sommers speaks to Alexander Osipovich about the battles over Dodd-Frank and the investigation into MF Global
Risk 25 firms of the future: State Street
Taking on the Street