Feature articles on risk management, derivatives and complex finance - Risk.net

Insurance

New Swiss rules reveal hidden capital

Statutory or book reserve capital requirements, a mainstay of continental European insurance regulation, may come under pressure as practitioners digest the results of a field test of new solvency rules conducted by Switzerland's insurance regulator.

20 Dec 2005

Markets

BaFin eases clearing house restrictions

BaFin, the German regulator, has removed a requirement for financial institutions to hold capital against transactions with swaps clearing counterparties – a rule that had threatened German banks' use of SwapClear.

20 Dec 2005

Infrastructure

Preparing for the Big One

Wall Street performs the largest business continuity test since Y2K.

19 Dec 2005

Technology

Coping with complexity

The demand for risk-based technology has never been higher due to changing business practices, growing regulatory burdens and burgeoning demand for cross-asset class products. But new entrants can still gain market share in niche areas.

19 Dec 2005

Exchanges

Legal spotlight

Helen Marshall, an attorney at Bingham McCutchen in London, reveals the seven deadly sins of the Market Abuse Directive in the UK

16 Dec 2005

Basel Committee

US tackles home-host issues caused by Basel II delay

US financial regulators are working with foreign bank supervisors to minimise cross-border implementation difficulties that might arise from the country’s delayed Basel II plans.

14 Dec 2005

Basel Committee

Oracle adds Basel II functionality to its compliance platforms.

Oracle, the world’s largest software company based in Redwood Shores, California, has added the Reveleus Basel II solution to Oracle’s enterprise risk management and compliance platforms.

14 Dec 2005

Solvency II

Clash of the regulators

As the pace of the Solvency II process to reform European insurance supervision quickens, British and French regulators have clashed over the use of market-consistent solvency requirements, to the alarm of proponents of risk-based supervision.

13 Dec 2005

Risk management

Perspectives - Simon Topping

Simon Topping, Executive director, banking policy, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

13 Dec 2005

Basel Committee

Australia and Singapore lead Basel II adoption

Singapore and Australia are now the leading countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the implementation of the new capital framework, Basel II, according to a report by Celent, an international financial consultancy.

09 Dec 2005

Basel Committee

Basel II to encourage smaller banks to invest in risky assets

The new Basel II capital rules will encourage smaller banks to invest in riskier assets, according Peter Plaut, a managing director in fixed income research at Bank of America in New York.

08 Dec 2005

Risk management

Trading Book regime needs change, says Schmidt Bies

New liquidity and credit risks in the trading book warrant the review of the Market Risk Amendment of 1996 as proposed by the Basel Committee, according to Susan Schmidt Bies, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.