Central banks
Trouble in Toytown
toys “r” us
No strings attached
louise purtle
Haircut or fleecing ?
argentina
Documenting EDS
Equity default swaps
Preparing for an end to deflation
Inflation-linked bonds
Italian companies focus on derivatives
New Angles
Primary concerns
primary market
Short shrift for long-term mortgages
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The central bank of sterling volatility
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Regulation and economic capital spark debate
Risk Europe 2004
Consistency issues must be resolved before Basel II implementation, says Bies
Major US banks have consistency problems that must be resolved before the implementation of Basel II, according to Susan Schmidt Bies, governor of the Federal Reserve Board and chair of the Banking Regulatory and Supervisory Committee.
Sarbanes-Oxley: The costly road to compliance
Some companies are looking to get a better return on their investment in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance by making it part of a larger exercise that looks at firm-wide processes and controls, and not just those surrounding financial reporting, writes Clive…
AIB rapped for overcharging for forex deals
Allied Irish Banks (AIB) sailed into another forex controversy last week, as it emerged the bank has been overcharging for forex deals for the past eight years, reports RiskNews' sister publication, FX Week .
Notional outstanding OTC contracts near $200 trillion
The total estimated notional amount of outstanding over-the-counter derivatives contracts stood at $197.1 trillion at the end of December, according to data released today by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
The Enron effect
Lawsuits filed by investors in Enron against two of the fallen energy giant’s arranging banks, Citigroup and JPMorgan, have called into question the very structure of investment banking in the US, as John Hintze discovers
The cost of optimism
Petroleum engineers and financial regulators have never spoken the same language,as the recent Royal Dutch/Shell debacle has shown. And this has led to confusionover state oil reserves. By Maria Kielmas
Time to adapt copula methods for modelling credit risk correlation
In an evolving market, a new standard for the price quotation of credit products that models correlated changes in credit spreads as well as default times is needed, argues Darrell Duffie.
A taste of corporate risk
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