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Profile - Nic Pifer
The portfolio manager and sector leader, global fixed income, at RiverSource Investments talks to Dalia Fahmy about what's behind the fund manager's rise up the rankings
Demand grows for business continuity in LatAm
REGULATORY NEWS
Basel Committee releases liquidity risk report
REGULATORY NEWS
Stay of execution
CLEARING & SETTLEMENT
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Diverging Views
Credit ratings
Banca in blossom
Banca Aletti
Dollar downed
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Opportunity knocks
Distressed debt
A light touch
Profile
Looking to beat the backlog
Special Report: Electronic trading - Trade confirmation
Proxy-hedging problems
Taiwanese insurers
AML technology spend continues
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US reforms mean more bailouts and centralised power
Plans to reform US financial services oversight will open the way for more bailouts of financial companies and more centralised regulation.
Bank of Russia and ECB announce joint banking supervision initiative
Daily news headlines
Fed will support securities market directly
The US Federal Reserve Bank will start backing primary securities dealers as well as banks through its discount in another attempt to stave off a general financial collapse, it announced yesterday.
JP Morgan buys Bear Stearns after receiving Fed guarantee
JP Morgan, the middleman in the Federal Reserve's discount-window attempt to prop up Bear Stearns on Friday, will buy the troubled bank at a knockdown price.
Fed bails out Bear Stearns
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has stepped in to prevent insolvency at Bear Stearns, offering to provide liquidity through JP Morgan.