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Counting on coal
NRG Energy's move to buy Texas Genco seems a wise one for a company with strong dark-spread exposure, but it has its risks, despite the target company being backed by an active hedging programme. Joe Marsh reports
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Art of influence
Tom Wilson's work helped change the way the industry thinks about credit risk, alternative risk transfer and corporate risk culture. What now for ING Insurance's new head of risk management? By Navroz Patel
ABI launches loss event database for insurers
LONDON – A new loss event database for insurance companies was launched at the end of September by the Association of British Insurers (ABI), in conjunction with software firm SAS.
Time for multi-period capital models
Several financial institutions use single-period models to determine their credit portfolio loss distribution, calculate their loss volatility and assign economic capital. Here, Kevin Thompson, Alistair McLeod, Panayiotis Teklos and Shobhit Gupta…
US retail in the firing line
New guidance from the National Association of Securities Dealers has put the retailisation of the US market in the firing line, sparking anger and confusion among distributors and structurers alike. By Paul Lyon
Home-host hearing raises key issues
LONDON – Although the tone of the October 5 public hearing at the secretariat of the Commission of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) on guidelines for greater supervisory co-operation between consolidating supervisors and host supervisors (CP-09) was…
Insurance supervisors issue guidance on risk transfer
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has issued a guidance paper on risk transfer. The guidance – officially adopted today at the association’s general meeting in Vienna - details potentially problematic areas on which national…
Apra exec defends modifications
SINGAPORE – An executive from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (Apra) defended the supervisor's decision to dramatically modify its approach to the Basel II standardised approach in a discussion paper released at the end of July.
Building a capital plan
Banks are required under Basel II to have a process in place for assessing their overall capital adequacy in relation to their risk profile. Bernard Manson and Christopher Hall outline how to construct a capital plan to ensure minimum capital…
Trouble in paradise
Healthy balance sheets, swollen liquidity reserves and positive cashflows should be the words every bondholder wants to hear, but they could spell bad news for credit investors in the US as companies prepare to reward equityholders