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US autos: grinding to a halt
Credit of the month
A market redeemed
CDOs
Sector roundup
sectors
Drawing the short straw
Northumbrian Water and Midlands Electricity
Corporate governance disclosure: banks focus on bolstering infrastructure
Corporate governance survey 2003 – part II
LDA group participants: vive la difference!
Basel Committee’s op risk conference
The point of op risk
Risk analysis
Long hot summer for exposed corporates
Corporate risk disclosure
Actions speak louder
Financial consultancy firm CityIQ, commissioned by Swift and SmartStream, canvassed over 240 firms about their activities in the corporate actions arena. The May 2003 survey showed widespread automation potential.
A new dawn
Now that the financial community has finally become comfortable with derivatives, the next challenge is to trade these instruments using STP methods. STPforum reports
Wrestling With Two Kinds of Growth
Storage needs were already estimated to be growing 50 percent a year. Now, add industry regulations, and firms are looking to get creative with storage technology.
Sending Stock Certificates to the Shredder
Increasing shareholder acceptance of electronic proof of ownership is giving a big push to efforts to dematerialize physical stock certificates.
Catching the Basel 'tail wind'
Christian Jimenez, chief risk officer at Eulia, has used momentum from regulatory change to overhaul antiquated risk management policies.
Corporate Governance Survey 2003, Part 1 >> Op risk disclosure: a long road ahead
Although most banks now have a separate section on operational risk in their annual reports, disclosure levels vary considerably. Here, Operational Risk's editorial staff review 15 bank annual reports to uncover reporting and management practices in 2002
A new direction
Taiwan
Hancock calls for more enterprise-wide risk management
Peter Hancock, the former chief financial officer and head of risk management at JP Morgan, who now runs financial boutique Integrated Finance, believes risk managers should spend more time developing enterprise-wide risk systems that can help top…
European buy side still lags in risk management
The findings of a recent survey show that buy-side firms have increased their focus on risk management, but are still well behind their sell-side counterparts.
German regulators begin industry dialogue
FRANKFURT - Germany's regulators are about to change the way they interact with the banking industry as they gear up to implement the operational risk portion of Basel II by 2006.
Weather derivatives notional volumes fall by $100 million
The Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA), the international trade organisation of the weather derivatives industry, yesterday said that the notional value of weather derivatives contracts fell by $100 million from last year’s figures.