Central banks
CDO challenges in China
Regulations
Tools of the trade
Synthetic CDOs
Integrating portfolio risk
Portfolio risk management
Hedging for SMEs
Profile
Treasuries worry European managers
New Angles
Vulnerable to laundering
Anti-money laundering
Mutual funds: Reputational repair
Stung by market timing and late-trading scandals, US mutual funds such as Putnam are scrambling to shore up their battered reputations. But the fallout may be far from over.
HSBC’s forex chief retires as bank makes highest-ever forex profits
Rob Loewy, head of foreign exchange at HSBC for the past 15 years, retired last week as the bank announced its highest-ever dealing profits for foreign exchange.
Expressing a view on the dollar
Currency focus
Reputational repair
Mutual funds
Sector roundup
Sectors
Riding the wave
emerging markets
OpRisk accord sans frontières?
Capital Accord Comment
RBC unveils new forex structure
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has confirmed a new senior management structure in foreign exchange following the departure of global foreign exchange head David Gibbins, reports Risk’s sister publication, FX Week .
All change on the BIS op risk team
Three well-known regulatory figures will be changing places over the course of February as various secondment arrangements between the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Bank of England (BofE) and the Federal Reserve in the US come to an end.
UK regulator clamps down on structured product selling
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to finalise tough new guidelines for marketing retail structured products this month, as it moves to strengthen oversight after 2003's 'precipice' bond controversy, which saw Lloyds TSB fined almost £2…
Sponsor's article > Accounting for revenue uncertainty
The past 20 years have seen an increasing focus on mark-to-market accounting when determining corporate profits. This has been accompanied by a dramatic growth in contracts where multiple complex contingencies interact to affect valuation. David Rowe…
Sibling rivalry
argentina
Parmalat focus: Tragedy or farce?
Corporate Europe has been gripped by a scandal that has led to the downfall of one of Italy's largest and most established companies – dairy producer Parmalat. Bondholders don't know whether to laugh or cry at the size of the fraud.
Storms ahead
Rankings 2004
Taking the slow road
Rankings 2004
The deal deluge
Rankings 2004