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Risk management

CP189: the FSA yet to clarify rules for key op risk issues

REGULATORY UPDATE

01 Aug 2003

Technology

FSA study shows wide gap in firms’ op risk frameworks

IMPLEMENTATION OUTLOOK

01 Aug 2003

Technology

Operational risk: looking at the bigger picture

Op risk

01 Aug 2003

Markets

US coal trading picks up steam

While the coal market awaits pricing indexes to reinvigorate trading, emissions trading is getting a boost from increased coal burning. Catherine Lacoursière reports

30 Jul 2003

Structured products

Allegheny sells $405m of energy supply contract to Goldman Sachs

Allegheny Energy yesterday took a step towards reducing its exposure to energy trading by selling an energy supply contract to a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs for $405 million.

29 Jul 2003

Regulation

Getting to grips with fair value

European corporate treasurers and finance officers are still way behind in their preparations for IAS 39.

24 Jul 2003

Credit risk

Accord preparations: the rest is yet to come

While the debates have raged for months about many aspects of the proposed Basel II Accord, on some points there has been relative silence, in particular with regard to the seeming overreliance on statistical techniques.

23 Jul 2003

Solvency II

Corporate Governance Survey 2003, Part 2 >>Corporate governance disclosure: banks focus on bolstering infrastructure

In the second part of Operational Risk's review of 15 bank annual reports for 2002, the editors look at how firms have chosen to address the hot button issues of corporate governance, reputational risk and legal risk. Again, practices vary widely among…

21 Jul 2003

Regulation

Sponsor's article > The point of op risk

The inclusion of an explicit operational risk component in the proposed Basel II Capital Accord has caused widespread controversy. Much of this has surrounded the feasibility of accurately measuring, or even defining, such risk. In this first of three…

21 Jul 2003

Foreign exchange

City of Los Angeles files lawsuit against Reliant

The City of Los Angeles has filed a $218 million lawsuit against Houston-based Reliant Energy and its successor companies, alleging breach of contract and conspiracy to drive up the price of natural gas.

18 Jul 2003

Structured products

All in Accord

South Africa's banks are taking Basel II seriously. Clive Davidson discovers what they are doing to prepare for its implementation, and how they are meeting the many challenges of the new capital accord.

17 Jul 2003

Commodities

The trouble with normalisation

Weather derivatives practitioners say normalisation agreements between regulators and utilities in the US are posing a threat to their industry. Kevin Foster investigates

15 Jul 2003

Energy

US pushes agreement on carbon storage research

The US government has launched an international research and development programme to reduce power plant emissions by pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) into deep storage.

02 Jul 2003

Energy

LNG may not fix gas supply problem

Despite its long-term promise, liquified natural gas (LNG) will only have a minimal impact on a significant US gas storage shortfall in the winter of 2003/2004, says Energy Security Analysis Inc (Esai), a Boston-based research firm.