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Investors should heed lessons of credit crisis
Choose products carefully, warns BNP Paribas, Tighten up risk infrastructure, says the OECD's Hans Blommestein
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Hong Kong to launch new commodities exchange
Hong Kong is to launch a new exchange offering energy and commodity products in a bid to capitalize on the boom in Chinese demand for raw materials.
Derivatives Summit: Improve processing now, OECD market chief says
Despite ongoing market turmoil, the future for derivatives is bright. Or at least it will be if the industry’s risk management infrastructure is tightened up, said Hans Blommestein, head of the capital markets programme at the Organisation for Economic…
Derivatives Summit: Investors should heed lessons of crisis, summit told
Investors should heed the lessons of the credit crunch by changing the products they invest in, said senior BNP Paribas bankers speaking at Risk ’s 2008 Derivatives Summit in London.
Prime suspect
Knowing the exact quality of the loans in a securitisation pool is key if investor appetite for mortgage securities is to return. Chris Ames, an asset-backed portfolio manager at Schroders, discusses what's prime, what's not, and what has to happen for…
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Distressed Debt
Column: Dan Travers
The high-powered, lightening-fast computer systems that managers use to perform their risk calculations should be geared towards delivering reliability not speed.
What's it all worth?
When financial markets grind to a halt and liquidity dries up, assessing the value of securities is a notoriously difficult process. Andrew Krull, MD of BlackRock Solutions, talks about how the firm goes about determining fair valuation and appraising…
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