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Hedge funds find investors on their side in SEC registration debate
After months of dialogue with hedge funds, funds of funds and prime brokers, the SEC released its much anticipated report on the hedge funds industry. But its recommendations have met with widespread scepticism.
The ultimate stress-test: modelling the next liquidity crisis
What would happen if one of the world's largest investment banks pulled out of derivatives? Risk managers at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase are already building this scenario into their stress-tests, and regulators want other banks to do the same.
Latin America looking to improve risk practices
Participants attending the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) in Chile this week said there was a need for further reforms to enhance Latin American domestic markets, ease the burden of public sector debt and provide alternative sources of risk management…
Latin America looking to improve risk practices
Participants attending the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) in Chile this week said there was a need for further reforms to enhance Latin American domestic markets, ease the burden of public sector debt and provide alternative sources of risk management…
Emerging markets to suffer unique Basel II compliance problems
Implementation of Basel II "is a tall order for most emerging markets", said Zeti Akhtar Aziz, governor of the Bank Negara Malaysia at the 12th annual Central Banking Conference in London yesterday.
GAO urges curbs on 'tying'
The General Accounting Office has recommended that bank regulators take additional measures to adequately enforce laws against the tying of commercial credit to more lucrative investment banking business, despite a lack of hard evidence to support…