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CLNs come of age
Technical
Bondholders versus shareholders
Sponsored article
Equity poses the big questions
Roundtable
Boom time for distressed debt
Distressed debt
European telcos: mixed signals
Credit of the month
Why won’t banks grasp the op risk nettle?
OP RISK MANAGEMENT
Fully operational
Modeling, measuring and hedging operational risk by Marcelo Cruz Wiley Finance 330 pages, £49.39 ISBN 0-471-51560-4
Fitch first to report CDO exposure to WorldCom
New York-based Fitch is the first rating agency to report WorldCom exposures on the collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) it has rated.
Q1 scapegoats: energy and weather
Risk’s second quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures provides some evidence that companies are becoming more forthcoming. But losses on hedgeable exposures, especially energy and weather, continued to plague many
An aggressive agenda
Dresdner’s chief risk officer, Heinrich Linz, is masterminding a credit revolution at the German bank.
A crisis of identity
Recent news stories have highlighted a controversy over identification of the specific reference entity in certain credit derivatives contracts. Troubling as this is, it reflects a more pervasive lack of discipline among financial institutions. In this…
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems
SMBC launches summer weather derivatives
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) has recently launched a weather derivatives contract for unusual hot and cold summer temperatures in Japan, according to an official for the bank.
Tools for the trade
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