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Reliance Industries
Corporate Risk Manager of the Year
BNP Paribas
Credit Derivatives House of the year
ICICI Bank
House of the Year, India
UBS
Derivatives House of the Year, Australia
JP Morgan Private Bank
Private bank of the year
Incremental concerns
Basel II
Standard Chartered
Commodity/energy derivatives house of the year
Hang Seng Bank
House of the Year, Hong Kong
UBS
Wealth Management House of the Year
Credit Suisse PL100 EMID
Deal of the year
CIMB Islamic
Islamic Product House of the Year
JP Morgan
Interest rate derivatives house of the year
Kookmin Bank
House of the year, South Korea
Taking risk to the top office
Hit by billions of dollars in subprime writedowns, banks are looking at how best to organise their risk management functions. Steve White makes a far-reaching proposal
Jump-start needed
Securitisation
O Brothers, where art thou?
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, coming on the back of the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sent market participants rushing to compute their exposures and replace affected hedges. How did the market bear up? By Peter Madigan and Nick…
Reassuringly expensive
Funding
Staying out of harm's way
Catastrophe Bonds
If it's broke..
Economic capital models
Barclays delivers Defined Returns Plans
Barclays Wealth has launched two Defined Returns Plans (DRP) in order to provide investors in unprotected equities greater security. The DRP Capital Protection offers 20% fixed return for a three-year term, 30% for the four-year term or 40% for the five…
Archaic regulatory system to be reformed
Editor's blog
UBS appoints Bear departee joint global head of fixed income
UBS has named Jeffrey Mayer, a former director of Bear Stearns, as joint global head of fixed income. Mayer’s appointment follows UBS’s recent hire of Carson Kengeter in the same capacity from Goldman Sachs.
Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting buys Ci3
Daily news headlines
Update: HK SFC publishes list of Lehman-related structured products / outstanding values of notes
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has published a list of all unlisted Lehman Brothers-related retail structured notes. The list offers data on the issuers, the issues, the issue dates and the maturity dates pertaining to notes…