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Risk 25: All the anniversary issue content
There is a temptation with anniversaries to look back – and plenty has happened since Risk celebrated its 20th year with a bumper July 2007 issue. A crisis that began with defaulting low-income homeowners...
As they stand, segregation rules for the cleared over-the-counter derivatives market are a mess. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalised its rules in January, mandating an approach...
The credit default swap (CDS) market has one or two possibly crucial tests ahead of it – so crucial, in fact, that some participants reckon the results could determine the credibility of at least parts...
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Risk Australia Autumn 2011
Derivatives pricing used to seem so easy, at least for less complex instruments. Until three years ago, financial engineers, traders and risk managers had largely agreed on the appropriate use of models and techniques that underpinned the pricing and...
Equity derivatives
Equity derivatives markets have long lagged the fast migration to electronic confirmation seen in other asset classes. There are various reasons for this – the sheer diversity of instruments, geographic idiosyncrasies and differences in underlyings,...
South Africa
Three months have passed since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the final version of Basel III, and attention is now firmly on implementation. The new rules will require banks to hold higher-quality capital, comply with a new leverage...
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2011
The rapid internationalisation of the Chinese currency, the renminbi, was one of the hot topics in the foreign exchange business in Asia during 2010. The fact China’s currency is gaining increasing use around the world on one level is unsurprising....
Emerging markets
Regulators in the US and Europe are drawing up detailed new rules that will, among other things, require a large share of the over-the-counter derivatives market to be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs) and reported to trade repositories. It...
Inflation
A lack of consensus is generally good for markets - and there is certainly no agreement on the direction of inflation at the moment. With fears of a double-dip recession dominating for much of this year, dealers say they saw strong demand for inflation...
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