Central banks
Gathering confidence
Securitisation
Il futuro si va schiarendo
Stanza di compensazione
The blame game
Accounting
Il reporting aziendale rivisitato
Reporting aziendale
Alla ricerca del colpevole
Problemi contabili
The South African credit derivatives market - where to from here?
Sponsored statement - Absa Capital
Topsy curvy
Interest rates
Building pillar 2
Regulatory capital
European banks in wave of bailouts
Daily news headlines
Global bank supervisors endorse sound practice standards for liquidity risk
Daily news headlines
HKMA and SFC meet with Minibond investors / MAS in contact with FIs
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) met yesterday with Lehman Minibond investors and representatives of the distributors who sold the first-to-default notes. The meeting followed street protests by HK…
Remaining investment firms become Fed-regulated banks
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CDS spreads continue to tighten
Credit default swap (CDS) spreads on financial institutions had tightened further by close of play on September 19, as market confidence continued to rise after large injections of cash from central banks
Pressure eases on interbank lending
Strain on the interbank lending markets is easing as large infusions of liquidity start to take effect and market confidence improves.
Central banks reveal co-ordinated response to liquidity crisis
The world's major central banks today unveiled plans for a $180 billion injection of liquidity to restore stability to global financial markets.
Delays and confusion threaten Sepa
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US authorities step in to rescue GSEs
The US Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Sunday details of a rescue plan to place the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into government conservatorship.
EC U-turn on Sepa direct debits
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Better Sepa than sorry
Editor's blog
Doubts over UK and ECB bank support
As the European Central Bank (ECB) acts to reduce its liquidity support for eurozone banks, UK banks may face dire consequences from heavy use of the Bank of England's support scheme.