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Brazil looks to controls
New legislation in Brazil on banking systems and controls has triggered a flood of sales from large accountancy firms and specialist service providers. John Rumsey looks at the new rules and how Brazilian banks are responding
Work in progress
Securitisation
Bahraini Basel
Basel II
Landing on his feet
Profile
Structuring for sharia
Structured Products
The balancing act
CDPCS
Reach for the sky
Sukuk
Putting backlogs up front
Equity Derivatives
A topsy-turvy world
Securitisation
Re-evaluating valuation
Subprime mortgage woes continue to send shudders through the markets. Rising delinquencies, rating downgrades and falling prices have left investors with huge losses on CDO of ABS investments. The losses have revealed discrepancies in the valuation of…
Tighter integration – the key to the most successful FX derivative businesses
Sponsored Statement
Moving to convergence
Risk Management
AFT to the fore?
Sovereigns
Take me to your interdealer
Hedge funds
The untenable robustness of hedging
Credit indexes
It was 20 years ago today...
Risk 20
NASD and NYSE combine to form FINRA
Merger creates securities biggest self-regulatory organisation
Foreign IPO slump is global phenomenon
London, Hong Kong also losing foreign investment, says study
New head for Chicago Fed
Charles Evans will take over from Michael Moskow as president and chief executive of the Chicago Federal Reserve in September.
CEIOPS anticipates Solvency II difficulties
The Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) has said it will struggle to meet the EU Commission’s demands for a factual report on the third quantitative impact study (QIS3) and a draft of the fourth study (QIS4) by…
Australia discusses insurance industry improvements
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has published a discussion paper on proposed improvements to general insurance regulation.
Australia revises Basel II standardised approaches
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has published the final draft of its standardised approaches to credit and operational risk.
BBVA launches two new ETFs on FTSE indexes
FTSE has granted Spanish banking group BBVA a licence to launch two new ETFs on the FTSE Latibex Brasil Index and the Latibex Top Index.