Risk Staff

Markets

The game of life

UK life insurers have faced a new regulatory regime in the aftermath of the guaranteed annuity options disaster, which has led them to rethink their use of derivatives. Nicholas Dunbar talks to four leading life companies

18 Jan 2005

Structured products

Mind your behaviour

Hedge fund managers are becoming interested in behavioural theory, anincreasingly influential branch of economics that describes the role of intuitivebias in investment decision-making. According to one finance professor,behaviouralism provides valuable…

18 Jan 2005

Structured products

Structured finance ratings given BIS OK

The structured finance ratings business was given a clean bill of health today by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), with a few caveats.

17 Jan 2005

Regulation

Comptroller urges revamped disclosure for financial consumers

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Julie Williams has urged bankers, government officials and consumer advocates to coalesce their efforts to improve the system of disclosure for financial consumers.

17 Jan 2005

People

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12 Jan 2005

Risk management

Asian banks divided over Basel II, says Financial Insights

Some of the significant Asian economies will only use the new Basel Accord as a reference point, as they embark on their own ways of improving capital regulatory systems, according to Financial Insights, a financial business advisory service firm based…

12 Jan 2005

Basel Committee

FSA outlines Basel II costs

The UK’s Financial Services Authority has outlined the cost of regulatory enforcement of Basel II in that country for the first time.

10 Jan 2005

Credit markets

Barclays Capital wins derivatives house of the year in 2005 Risk Awards

Barclays Capital, the UK-based investment bank, scooped the prestigious Derivatives House of the Year Award in Risk magazine’s sixth awards for achievement in risk management.