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As a steady stream of analysts and industry experts continue to issue dismal forecasts for US house price appreciation, adjustable rate mortgage resets and the broader economy as a whole, Ajay Rajadhyaksha, head of US fixed income strategy at Barclays…

Rise and fall

House price movements are set to become the dominant factor determining what US mortgage banks lend in future. Understanding house price appreciation and modelling it accurately has never been so critical. William Rhode reports

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The Big Interview: Ian Bell

S&P's European structured finance head defends the agency over accusations that they could have done more to anticipate this summer's crisis. He talks to Matthew Attwood

The flight to quality

Global bond investors are seeking out the highest-rated sovereigns amid the liquidity freeze. But, while the investment-grade corporate markets stall, emerging market debt is proving remarkably resilient. By Daniel Andrews

Roundtable: Sounding out the buy side

With the markets still reeling from the liquidity crisis, Credit gathered together three luminaries from the buy side to discuss the effects of the summer slowdown and, more importantly, how things will pan out over the next few months

Gridlock in CDS confirmations

As if banks haven't got enough to worry about, new data from Markit Group shows that the amount of unconfirmed credit derivatives trades has increased sharply, to levels not seen for around two years. Simon Boughey reports

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It takes two

In the March 2007 edition of OpRisk & Compliance, Glenn Christensen of Synovus outlined the first part of his firm's two-pronged enterprise risk management methodology. Here, he describes thesecond part, and has some new findings and techniques to share

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To be continued...

Business continutity planning is high on the agenda for financial services firms. For the first time, OpRisk & Compliance has surveyed the market to identify the leading BCP providers. Victoria Pennington presents the results

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The top 10

OpRisk & Compliance outlines the top 10 challenges readers and their firms will face in 2008. By David Benyon, with additional reporting by Ellen Davis

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The gathering storm

The popularity of internet banking continues to grow, but so does cyber crime. Peter Madigan explores the security challenges for institutions active online and finds US regulators could be doing more to keep the banking public safe

A call to action

The global credit crunch shows just how much the world's financial services firms need to raise their game when it comes to risk management, says Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute for International Finance. By Ellen Davis

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