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Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place.
Trade associations launch IRB survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …
Trade associations launch IRB survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Risk Management Association and the British Bankers' Association today launched a survey of the validation of banks' internal credit ratings, a key element underlying the internal ratings-based …
Capturing value from energy supply and trading
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Hetco stops power trading
Hetco, the New York-based proprietary energy trading company, has closed its power trading desk. Hetco was created in 1997 as a joint venture between US oil major Amerada Hess and Stephen Hendel and Stephen Semlitz, two former partners of Goldman Sachs,…
Academic voices dissatisfaction with Basel II
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision still has a great deal of work to do before the Basel II capital accord can be successfully implemented at financial institutions, Jacques Pézier, director of the risk management group of the ISMA Centre at the…
Fitch to investigate credit derivatives risk concentrations
Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings is concerned that the rapid growth and lack of transparency in the synthetic credit markets could be leading to alarming concentrations of risk with specific market participants.
Japan's SMEs facing funding crisis
Japan's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing the worst funding crisis since the 1997/98 Asian financial meltdown, according Hiroshi Nakaso, associate director of the financial markets department at the Bank of Japan, speaking at Risk…
Sempra buys CMS' gas trading business
Sempra Energy Trading, the Connecticut-based gas, power and petroleum dealer, has bought the gas trading book of Michigan-based CMS Energy for $17 million, a Sempra spokesman confirmed today.
JP Morgan launches LSE-listed certificates
JP Morgan has launched the first listed certificates registered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), targeted at retail investors. The move follows the launch in November of covered warrants in the UK.
CLS Is Live. What Next?
CLS participants breathed a huge sigh of relief when the long-awaited system launched successfully. Is anyone ready to start expanding the system to new products?
Filling in the holes
Fixed-income banking
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