Financial stability
Fears over LatAm consumer credit boom
A lending spree by Latin American banks has led to a massive rise in consumer debt. Banks are content to securitise these loans, but what happens when consumers start defaulting?
Der Pipeline-Experte
Profil
The pipeline cleaner
Chris Whitman, group treasurer of Deutsche Bank, talks to Alexander Campbell about maintaining bank liquidity
FSF warns of hedge fund risks
The growth of the hedge fund industry is hindering risk management and valuation processes and is putting margins under pressure, says a report by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), issued on Friday (May 18).
FSF calls for action on hedge funds
FSF makes recommendations on hedge funds
CDO managers - Do the ends justify the fees?
Credit Risk
Q&A: Sean Flannery
The chief investment officer for the Americas at State Street Global Advisors in New York discusses the opportunities offered by decomposition of risk as a result of the growth of the credit derivatives market
Data's destiny
Grid computing
Oxygen for the markets
... or why market sentiment is propping up ill companies
Data's destiny
Grid Computing
Data's destiny
Grid Computing
GMO's emerging market high-flyers
Bill Nemerever and Tom Cooper, co-managers of GMO's emerging markets debt portfolio, have made their names sourcing cheap debt in unusual locations. Shunning roadshows and local currencies, they barely even travel to the countries they invest in. Dalia…
IIF launches strategic regulatory dialogue
COVER STORY
Review of the Year
Features
Protected from the credit glare?
Systemic risk
The third way
Cantor Fitzgerald's fixed-income research team
A Safe distance
Cover story
The price of political risk
Korea credit
Upwardly mobile
Korea
Promulgating pro-cyclicality
Collaboration between financial supervisors has never been higher. But as the regulation of banks and insurance companies becomes increasingly homogenised, fears are growing about the possibility that the new rules will increase the severity of a global…
Promulgating pro-cyclicality
Systemic Risk
BIS urges firms to strengthen risk management practices
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released its quarterly review, in which it details the organisation’s activity over the past three months. In it, the BIS notes potential strains to the financial system and highlights where further work…