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AIFMD applications face timing pitfalls
Timing applications
Rising cybersecurity threats mean a future of friction and mistrust
A collapse of faith in the internet is unlikely – but a slow-burning loss of confidence is far more probable, and will mean steadily rising costs of doing business
Single-stock futures skirt US dividend-equivalent withholding
Skirting the tax
Legal and practical protections from cyber attack
All companies face the risk of an online attack – what precautions can they take against it, and how can they react once an attack starts?
Repacks revisited: Asia investors turn to structured credit
Repacks revisited
Insurers bridge infrastructure investment challenge
As life insurers increase their exposure to infrastructure, Blake Evans-Pritchard reports on the different ways in which they are approaching the asset class
China rate liberalisation to spur onshore IRS market
Interested parties
Cross-border vortex: Dealers freeze plans to move staff
Bordering on chaos
Basel gives on securitisation capital – but industry still unhappy
Proposals on proposals
Banks falling behind on Basel risk data principles
Room for improvement
Corporates held up as start of Emir reporting looms
The race to report
Integrating risk management with the investment process - a Munich Re case study
The perennial challenge for insurers and reinsurers is to make certain that the assets they hold will cover all their present and future liabilities. Traditionally, companies have sought to manage the risk of a shortfall through careful design and…
Risk & Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2014 – metals
For metals, the past 12 months were marked by plummeting gold prices, directionless markets in base metals and heated rows over the London Metal Exchange’s warehousing system. Despite this, the top dealers and brokers in this year’s rankings are largely…
Risk & Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2014 – energy
The past 12 months proved tough for energy dealers, with low volatility, poor liquidity and sluggish levels of client activity. Given this, some banks decided to scale back their commitment to the market – a trend that is reflected in this year’s results…
Looking back: Regulators try to slow down OTC juggernaut
Today, regulation is a fact of life for OTC commodity derivatives traders. But in April 1994, it was somewhat novel, as Energy Risk reported at the time
Deutsche Bank makes commodities cuts
Goldman names new commodities heads; BAML exits European power and gas; GDF Suez promotes Moorooven; Newedge names commodity heads; JP Morgan hires EDF power trader
The 10 biggest energy risk management disasters of the past 20 years
The history of energy trading is littered with losses, bankruptcies and other misfortunes that now serve as cautionary tales. Alexander Osipovich looks back at the biggest energy risk management disasters of the past two decades and how they reshaped the…
India steers offshore investors away from P-notes towards direct market access
Sebi tries to exert greater control over foreign investment by tightening rules governing P-note issuance and streamlining foreign investor approval process
People: SEC names head of complex investments unit
People: SEC names new head of complex products unit
Closing the gap between structured products and funds
Rise of the chameleons
