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Investors turn to detectives to help vet hedge funds
Digging deeper
Hedge fund investors seek protection in macro uncertainty
Macro turning point
Manager profile: Paul Ruddock, co-founder and CEO, Lansdowne Partners
Looking for good returns
Banks look to offload structured credit assets as prices recover
Making good on bad assets
Banks wary of uneven application of Basel III bank capital rules
Battle over Basel
Leading Asia economist warns against overestimating the region’s investment potential
Don’t believe the hype – Jim Walker profile
Bond investors look to convertibles to enhance portfolio returns
The change to convertibles
Client clearing services slowly maturing
A clear path?
Esma gears up for Emir challenge
Esma essentials
Banks worry over extraterritorial impact of Dodd-Frank
Reaching too far?
Market analysts consider impact of resolution regimes on CDS market
Resolution regimes rule, OK?
OTC industry rushes to develop standard legal entity identifiers
Identifying the identifiers
Greek crisis poses problems for CDS market
The pros and cons of restructuring
Dealers weigh Sef strategies
Day of the aggregators
Dealers fight back amid ETF regulatory scrutiny
Holding back the regulatory tide
New regulatory blitz threatens future of credit rating agencies
The SEC and EU have announced tough measures designed to limit the influence of credit ratings on the investment process. Credit magazine talks to the agencies about their efforts to restore their reputations, and asks investors about what role rating…
Rating the future: the investors’ perspective
Regulators have had their say; the agencies themselves have implemented changes to methodologies and processes; but how would investors fix the credit ratings business?
Credit ratings: the legal perspective
Securitisation lawyer Jonathan Walsh explains what regulatory and legal changes will mean for the rating agencies
UK consumer protection: the fuss over the FSCS
The UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) was set up to ensure consumers could be compensated if their bank went under. But who should be paying for it? And what does its future hold as the country’s financial regulation framework is…
Op risk in Canada: a recipe for success
Oh, Canada
The ORR 20: Compliance software rankings 2011
GRC is back
Firms face heightened op risk while implementing US CCP rules
Through a glass darkly