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Compromising on Basel II
As US banking regulators debate how much of the spirit of Basel II should be applied to small and medium-sized financial institutions, the banks themselves are stuck in no-man's land. Will 'Basel 1A' bring more certainty or more argument? John Ferry…
Deutsche Bank launches exchange-traded commodity index fund
Deutsche Bank has launched a commodity index tracking fund in New York, the first commodity index-linked fund to be listed on a US exchange.
Icecap completes first closing of its carbon portfolio
Icecap, the carbon emissions group, has today reached first closing of its carbon portfolio having raised aggregate commitments to buy 15 million tonnes of carbon credits from the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation markets.
The fundamentals of operational risk assessments
In the third of a series on scaling operational risk management for the small to medium-sized institution, Eric Holmquist discusses the fundamental elements to consider when developing an operational risk assessment where the emphasis is on process…
Ice Futures to launch WTI contract
Ice Futures will launch a cash-settled West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude oil futures contract on February 3. The contract will be automatically available to all users with access to Ice Futures oil contracts.
Basel spotlights home-host and EL issues
Basel, Switzerland – The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released two documents in late November, to provide the financial services industry with some additional clarity on both the home-host issue and the treatment of expected losses under the…
Fantastic plastic's path to liquidity
plastic contracts
Leverage, liquidity and concentration: the key aspects of hedge fund risk
funds of hedge funds risk management
The ins and outs of Islamic investment
special report: the gulf and hedge funds
Cream of the crop
awards
Financing the oligarchs
Corporate finance
A giant step for equity
China
Compromising on Basel II
US banks
Rights and resources
Doing business in a country with a poor human rights record can be costly, thanks to the changing landscape of corporate liability and human rights. Maria Kielmas reports
Package deals
Banks have been choosing off-the-shelf fully integrated systems for energy trading and risk management. But some feel the available software still falls short
The windfall dilemma
Free allocations of emission allowances may keep fossil fuel generators happy, but their customers are not smiling. Tobias Hsieh, credit analyst with ratings agency Standard & Poor's, explains who wins and loses under the trading rules
Price drivers - Policy fears in EU ETS
Developments in 2005 have shown that the EU ETS price has been correlated to relative fuel prices and weather. However, there are still remaining policy issues that could greatly influence prices, writes Henrik Hasselknippe and Kjetil Roine from Point…