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VC funds clean up
Investment in clean energy technology is attracting new venture capital money even as the traditional investors, electric utilities, are withdrawing. In the first of a two-part series, Catherine Lacoursière investigates the latest financing trends in…
Platform for production
While a healthy flow of new oil is forecast to come on stream over the next few years, there's concern that projects will be held up by a lack of infrastructure, particularly rig availability and personnel, finds Roderick Bruce
Future imperfect
Hedging physical deals with derivatives may be active risk management, but if the physical contract is breached, it can result in unnecessary losses. Andrew Meads looks at whether the innocent party can recover these losses
Western congestion
Despite huge strides to improve power transmission efficiency in California since 2001, the region is still flagged a 'critical congestion area' by the US Department of Energy. Neil O'Hara looks at the state of play
HYBRIDS: BACK ON TRACK
The hybrid securities market has recovered from the twin setbacks of excessive volatility in the European market in the spring and a negative regulatory ruling in the US. But what have investors learnt from these hiccups? Laurence Neville reports
New dawn for India's securitisation market
India's structured finance business ground to a halt earlier this year after the introduction of the country's first securitisation guidelines. But with the changes now digested, new issuers are coming to market, says Sarfraz Thind
Unrealised potential
Greece & Turkey
The great CDS debate which corner are you in?
Credit default swaps have become the instrument of choice for scores of credit investors - both for risk management and as another way to get exposure to credit. Yet there still remains a hardcore of sophisticated clients who continue to avoid CDS out of…
Take your Pik and take your chances
The issuance of payment-in-kind, or Pik, notes has grown in popularity as a means for private equity firms to fund LBOs. But investors must be aware of the unusual risks associated with this form of financing. Jean-Paul Carbonnier reports
The LDI makeover
For all the hype surrounding liability-driven investing, few UK pension funds have actually taken the plunge and implemented the technique. The London Pension Fund Authority is one notable exception. Nick Sawyer reports
Preparing for the worst-case scenario
When unpredictable and cataclysmic events befall a business, its recovery systems must be up and ready to go, reports Duncan Wood
Treasury pledges to fight terrorist funding
FINANCIAL CRIME
Hidden dangers
Do op risk managers still care about the impact of reputational risk? Possibly not, reports Peter Madigan
Surprising success, new risks
Are HEDGE funds liable to become the next operational risk and compliance crisis? This is the question that regulators, investors and other market participants around the world are asking themselves in the wake of yet another prominent hedge fund…
US banks to miss SAR reporting deadline
FINANCIAL CRIME
AMA diversity surprises experts
MEASUREMENT
APRA publishes two op risk papers
MEASUREMENT
Spreadsheets: a tool you can trust?
For more than two decades, spreadsheets have been the tool of choice for financial services firms. But do they contain hidden dangers? Dianne See Morrison reports
Reuters' outages help competitors
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Lukewarm response to SOX legislation
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
A mutually exclusive proposition
Capital funding
Implementing choice
Technology