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Leveraged ETFs dodge blame for volatility
Tempest in a teapot?
SEC at odds with Finra over Pip data
Agree to disagree
Corep and Finrep: data overload?
The start of Europe’s new risk reporting regime was delayed by the drawn-out legislative debate on CRD IV, but that hasn’t given the industry much more time to prepare. Technical detail was published in July, just five months ahead of the 2014 start date…
Oaktree’s Howard Marks keeps specialisation at the heart of expansion
Trying to get it right
Q&A: IAIS secretary general on G-Siis, ComFrame and a global capital standard
Yoshihiro Kawai, secretary-general of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, is the man in charge of building a new supervisory framework for both systemically important and internationally active firms. But his blueprints have proved…
US insurers turning to GRC systems
A governing principle?
Culture, oversight and fraud prevention
When fraud can be fatal
Mis-selling: the true cost to financial institutions
Banks are expected to spend millions on staff, fines and fees for handling complaints
Asian LNG buyers seek more flexible terms
Countries including Japan and India are venting their frustration at the hefty premiums and inflexible terms they face in the global liquefied natural gas market. While there are signs things are beginning to change, participants say any further shifts…
Sefs, shutdowns and no-action confusion
The new Sef trading regime came into force on October 2, but a flurry of last-minute no-action letters has left platforms confused – and there is no one at the CFTC to answer their questions. Peter Madigan reports
Dodd-Frank commodity option rules sow confusion among energy firms
Confusion over CFTC rules is tying US energy firms in knots, as they struggle to determine whether their physically settled commodity options need to comply with critical rules issued under the US Dodd-Frank Act. Alexander Osipovich reports
Insurers explore new risk metrics in bid to refine economic capital models
European insurers are refining their internal economic capital models as regulators’ efforts to define statutory solvency requirements grind to a standstill. Louie Woodall reports
Cross-border cultural concerns are a priority for Raiffeisen
Raiffeisen Bank International operates across central and eastern Europe – op risk head Nicole Murtinger discusses the cultural challenges this brings her
CTA trend followers suffer in market dominated by intervention
Return to normality
Trading costs force focus on maximising efficiency
Counting the cost
US broker-dealers face higher costs from new customer care standard
Uniform fiduciary standard may raise the bar for investment advisers and broker-dealers
Illiquidity premium taxes Asian regulators
Asian regulators are turning their attention to the illiquidity premium, but defining it within an Asian context will not be easy. Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on some of the challenges
Emir reporting questions pile up for corporates
Happy to report?
Search for new OTC underlyings gets tougher
The history of the derivatives market has been punctuated by regular attempts to find new underlyings – never an easy task. But would-be innovators now face regulatory and political obstacles too. Lukas Becker reports
Rand volatility jolts South Africa's quanto stock futures market
Currency controls in South Africa limit the ability of domestic investors to build stakes in big overseas companies. Listed quanto futures are one way round that, but the users remain exposed to currency risk – so some banks are now pushing an options…
Clearing: Third time lucky
The third US clearing deadline caused relatively little fuss. But the problems that emerged ahead of the first two deadlines haven’t entirely been solved, and some firms sought to postpone their first cleared transactions. Joe Rennison reports
WGMR rules create funding complexity for dealers
How long will a client hold a 10-year swap? It could be 10 years – or it could be 10 days – and the answer has big implications for dealer funding requirements
Remembering Lehman: CCPs hardwire collapse into models
Five years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the chaos that followed is now being erased from some value-at-risk models – and clearing houses do not agree on how to prop up their margin requirements. By Tom Osborn