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Dutch banks take a new look at risk

Dutch banks were considered to be among the best and safest in the world, but now they are reducing their global presence and concentrating primarily on their home market. Boris Agranovich looks at what went wrong and at the local risk management…

Active risk control

Richard Bibb explores the pitfalls of value-at-risk statistics and explains how they can be interpreted and incorporated into a meaningful risk management strategy

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Can reputational risk be measured

Reputational risk will often come hand in hand with operational risk, but it has yet to be taken as seriously, if it is even considered at all. David Benyon finds out why, and asks what might be done to resolve this situation

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Coming of age

$urendra Naidoo, risk management director and group head of operational risk at Standard Bank, believes the operational risk function can claim success when the firm’s business managers are educated to the level where they manage op risk themselves

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Rattled by ‘reg rage’

Financial risk management professionals are bracing themselves for a torrent of new rules and regulations in 2010, now the extreme levels of stress have abated. And the supervisors say they only have themselves to blame. By Asia Risk staff

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Replicating success

The financial crisis drummed home to many banks the advantages of quickly calculating exposures and executing hedges for complex portfolios. As a result, some banks are looking to the insurance sector and their use of replicating portfolios.

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A lighter touch

In August, the Bank of Thailand relaxed its regulations covering the use of derivatives. Chris Wright takes a look at the effect this is having on hedging and investment in the country

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Limits on leverage

Dealers have rushed to hook up their foreign exchange platforms to e-brokers offering foreign exchange leverage services to Japanese consumers collectively known as ‘Mrs Watanabe’. But new rules threaten to spoil the party. How are dealers responding?…

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Out of wedlock

Western dealers and their Chinese counterparts have fundamentally different views on how the use of collateral agreements should underpin repurchase agreements and financial derivatives transactions. This culture clash is causing acute problems for China…

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Insurance inroads

Structured product manufacturers have targeted the insurance sector as a potentially important new distribution channel following the collapse in volumes of products sold through retail banks in the region. Ben Marquand finds out if they are gaining…

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The thirst for liquidity

Bank supervisors the world over are set to revise liquidity requirements for financial institutions in a bid to improve financial stability. But the banking community – already struggling under the weight of new regulation – is not convinced the efforts…

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What they say about Gibraltar

Gibraltar supplement: December 2009Désirée McHard, managing director, BDO For McHard the biggest hurdle to significant fast-track growth of the jurisdiction is the lack of a large fund administrator like Citco. While she believes having Capita in Gibralt

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