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Renewable PPAs find favour among corporates
A good climate for renewable PPAs
Libor/OIS spread challenges insurers' risk management programmes
Spread carefully
Systemic risk debate hots up over variable annuities and ILS
In defence of the non-traditional
National regulators ramp up efforts to combat low rate threat
Interesting times
Q&A: Karel Van Hulle on Solvency II delays and the challenges ahead
Beating the negative forces
Volatility set to return to US natural gas market, warn analysts
The calm before the storm?
Ferc ruling raises hope of greater regulatory certainty
Ferc and turf
FATF plans more action against money laundering
Leaders of the Financial Action Task Force, the international body responsible for fighting money laundering, plan a more aggressive strategy
2013 Operational Risk & Regulation Awards
Our awards this year recognise achievement in the area of regulatory compliance – and, for the first time, we are including not only operational risk practitioners, but also the service providers and software suppliers who support them
Operational risk software provider of the year: Thomson Reuters
Focus on risk culture is a priority for many institutions in 2013, and our award winner Thomson Reuters provides the tools to enable clients to achieve this
Bank of the year: UniCredit
Improvements to AMA model and a new risk group are bearing fruit for 2013's winning bank of the year
Consultancy of the year: Ernst & Young
Enterprise-wide focus is the wave of the future, consultants find
Law firm of the year: Morrison & Foerster
OR&R recognises a law firm that successfully guided clients through regulatory confusion and the interpretation of sometimes competing items of financial legislation
Fraud and financial crime software provider of the year: BAE Systems Detica
Fraud and financial crime software provider of the year: BAE Systems Detica
Paper of the year: JD Opdyke and Alexander Cavallo
Paper of the year: JD Opdyke and Alexander Cavallo
GRC platform of the year: MetricStream
GRC platform of the year: MetricStream
South Korean power outage fears loom high on agenda
Planning a new Korea
WGMR proposals raise procyclicality fears
Proposals on the margining of uncleared over-the-counter derivatives trades have been revised to dampen the potential liquid impact
The struggle for consensus on European clearing addendum
The move to central clearing poses a huge documentation challenge. A standard template has been developed for European derivatives users – but will this solve the problem? By Duncan Wood and Lukas Becker
Dealing with CCP proliferation
A variety of clearing houses are emerging in Asia – in some cases, backed by domestic clearing requirements for local currency derivatives. That poses some difficult questions for participants active across the region. Should they sign up to all of them…
Swaps vs futures: OTC market speaks out
Swaps vs futures: OTC market speaks out
New standard CSA could be hurt by WGMR rules
Some dealers have started trading under the standard credit support annex, but a requirement in new uncleared margin rules could subject many trades to a haircut, potentially causing a re-think. By Matt Cameron and Nick Sawyer