Infrastructure/Commodities
Weather Board of Trade delays launch as problems mount
Atlanta-based Weather Board of Trade (WBOT), which was set for an October launch, will now only start trading exchange-based weather derivatives in February 2003. WBOT has also lost a number of its charter members, encountered problems with its fund…
A question of priorities
Japan's banks are aware of the need to prepare for Basel II, but it is just one of a number of urgent issues that need to be resolved in the Japanese banking sector.
Banding together for SME credit risk analytics
Germany's banking associations are taking a leading role in getting the country's fragmented banking sector ready to comply with the Basel II capital Accord. Germany's savings banks association, in particular, says it has internal ratings-based systems…
Totem launches European power and gas valuation service
Totem Market Valuations, a UK-based provider of derivatives valuation services, has launched an over-the-counter European power and gas derivatives pricing service targeted at oil majors, merchant energy companies, banks and former state monopolies…
Sponsor's article > Credit derivatives: will the market keep expanding?
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Pinching the systems penny
Trading technology
Reacting to spreads
Credit derivatives
A question of priorities
Basel Accord
Tracing Transparency
Corporate bond traders are hesitantly embracing greater transparency and trying to figure out how to use it.
Budgeting for 2003
Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and State Street outline how next year's budget will be spent. For starters, it will be spent cautiously.
Legg Mason Gets a Leg Up on Disclosure
Baltimore-based Legg Mason is one of the first firms to tap software to comply with NASD Rule 2711 about disclosing conflicts of interest.
Reaping integration rewards
In the October issue of Risk, Clive Davidson discussed the integration of ALM and ERM technology. Here, in a second article, he profiles the firms that have tackled this project and reviews the challenges, advantages and pitfalls of the integration…
Hunter hunted
People news
Internal risk rating systems for banks
Sponsored article
Deconstructing the market
High yield
Trouble from above
Pension funds
Slim pickings
New Issues
Reaping integration rewards
In the October issue of Risk, Clive Davidson discussed the integration of ALM and ERM technology. Here, in a second article, he profiles the firms that have tackled this project and reviews the challenges, advantages and pitfalls of the integration…
RiskNews review
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Banding together for SME credit risk analytics
Germany’s banking associations are taking a leading role in getting the country’s fragmented banking sector ready to comply with the Basel II capital Accord. Germany’s savings banks association, in particular, says it has internal ratings-based systems…
Gensec structures first South African weather derivatives contract
ZZ2 Ceres, one of South Africa’s largest fruit and vegetables businesses, has become the first company in the country to use weather derivatives. Its frost protection contract was structured by Gensec Bank, and runs from October 14 to November 30 2002…