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US foreclosures crisis is result of 'overall operational failure'
Imprudencies of scale
Banks seek a single op risk software solution
All for one
Vietnamese banks hit by Vinashin default
Flood defences
Variable annuity risks hurt Japanese life companies
Risk vs reward
Hedging strategies to exploit ‘currency war’
The spoils of war
Japanese exporters struggle with strong yen
The yen blues
Can life settlements secure mainstream recognition?
Coming of age
Dealers bet on onshore commodities units in China
The local touch
CBRC’s Andrew Sheng talks about new era for policymaking
Theory failure
The outlook for the Eurozone in 2011 – five top credit investors speak out
Senior investors at Pimco, BlackRock, State Street, AllianceBernstein and Investec give their views on how the Eurozone crisis might play out in 2011.
Outlook: The year that equities bounce back
A good year for equities
The pay and bonuses landscape
Caps and clawbacks
Interest rates pose problems for structurers
Lacking direction
Building sharia products from the bottom up
Bottom-up sharia structures
Dispersion tactics
Dispersion tactics
Disclosure regime leads to discord in Italy
The ‘what if’ scenario
Structured Products Europe: Simple still works
Simple still works
Year starts strongly for credit traders but risks loom
Trading talk: January 2011
Eurozone break-up fears persist despite EU bailouts
Risk of debtor-nation
Political risk on the rise for bondholders
The political will
Commodities remain an attractive asset for hedge funds
Mining the money
Turning Points: Yvo de Boer, special global advisor for climate change and sustainability at KPMG
Turning Points: Yvo de Boer