Feature
Succumbing to World Cup fever
Market View
A cause for celebration
End-User Survey 2006
A toast to the winners
End-User Survey 2006
CDOs set to get big in Japan
Cover story: Accounting
To hedge or not to hedge
IAS 39
Land of the rising funds
Japan hedge funds
High but not hedged
Gold
An air of simplicity
Profile: Qantas
Risk management for structurers
Structured products
Gold brings hedging headaches
Corporate risk
Dirty derivatives
Money laundering
Convergence on credit
Insurance
The real rocket scientists
As US space agency Nasa overhauls its risk management practices in preparation for a return to the Moon, Alexander Campbell looks at its new operational risk system
Internal affairs
Basel II
Growth in hostile territory
Convertible arbitrage
Return of a heavyweight
Sustained economic recovery in Japan will probably lead to the end of the country's zero interest rate levels in the third quarter of this year. What impact will this have on risk management and the use of derivatives? And how will it affect the…
Heading north
Q&A: Donal Galvin
NDF offers secure growth account
UK distributor NDF Administration has launched a secure growth account. The NDF Secure Growth Account provides capital security with exposure to the growth of the FTSE 100 Index. The product has a term of six-years.
Software company Fernbach introduces Basel II software in Arabic
Software company Fernbach has translated its FlexFinance Basel II software into Arabic. The software, which aims to enable banks to comply with the regulatory requirements of the three pillars of Basel II, provides a centralised data management structure…
Prompt Corrective Action can assist prudential regulation
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published a working paper to determine if Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) on the part of regulators is the best method to use against banks with inadequate levels of book-value capital. The report, ‘Dynamic…
Europe lagging on Mifid implementation
Europe's financial institutions are unprepared for the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), according to a survey by the international financial services firm KPMG.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision leaves calibration of Basel II unchanged
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has left the calibration of its capital framework at current levels (1.06 scaling factor for risk-weighted assets) based on a review of the most recent quantitative impact study (QIS5).
Trade bodies slam FSA 'achingly difficult' guidelines to Basel II
Leading industry associations have called for the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to make its handbook on the European Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) easier to understand.