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Why Coso is flawed

Coso not only fails to help a firm assess its risks, it actually obfuscates the risk assessment process. By Ali Samad-Khan

TriOptima trims six companies' oil swap portfolios

TriOptima, a Swedish company dedicated to reducing over-the-counter swap portfolios, has expanded its service into energy. The company has terminated its first group of multilateral OTC oil derivative swaps, with six companies eliminating unnecessary…

German banks get to grips with a new lending reality

Removal of state guarantees and pressure from shareholders for better returns means German banks can no longer churn out uneconomically priced loans to clients. Now they are starting to introduce sophisticated loan pricing systems, writes Duncan Wood

European Commission sues over emissions-trading legislation

The European Commission is taking legal action against Greece, Italy, Belgium and Finland for not fully transposing the emissions-trading directive into national law by December 31, 2003. Separately, Italy will receive a final written warning because it…

A wrong-way bet

China Aviation Oil (CAO) revealed in late November that it had lost $550 million through trading oil derivatives – but not before its Chinese parent sold $108 million in CAO shares. By Nick Sawyer, with additional reporting by Jill Wong

DDQ re-issues commodity-linked structured product

Dawnay Day Quantum (DDQ), a division of London-based financial services and property investment company Dawnay Day, has re-issued its commodity-linked structured product aimed at both the institutional and retail markets.

Setting a timetable

Regulators in Australia and Japan are the latest to set deadlines for their banks to comply with Basel II, and both differ slightly from the Basel Committee’s schedule. Nick Sawyer reports

The importance of ALM

The crossfire between the International Accounting Standards Board and the European Commission seems to have left corporates bewildered about the implications of IAS 39. Risk talks to leading advisory groups and corporates about the challenges ahead, and…

Citibank cut out

The suspension of Citibank’s private banking business by the Financial Services Agency in September has brought to light a catalogue of internal control and governance failures within the bank’s Japanese operations. And with Citi now cut out of the…

The game of life

UK life insurers have faced a new regulatory regime in the aftermath of the guaranteed annuity options disaster, which has led them to rethink their use of derivatives. Nicholas Dunbar talks to four leading life companies

Risk Management Inc signs four utility clients

Risk Management Inc (RMI), a Chicago-based energy consultancy and brokerage, has signed up four new utility customers for its energy risk management and hedging services. The City of Glendale Water & Power and Pasadena Water & Power, both in California,…

Amerex gains sulpur dioxide trading privileges on CCX

Houston-based broker Amerex Energy has obtained SO 2 trading privileges on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), an emissions-trading marketplace. Amerex can now broker futures contracts in trading increments of 25-tonne SO2 allowances. The standard over…

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