Feature
Cash for old smoke
Carbon emissions
Keeping it simple
Profile: Towngas
China's changing face
China
Called to account
Japan auditing
Sweet and sour
Crude oil
A classic chinese recipe
Profile: Jean-Philippe Frignet
Correlation confusion
Retail Portfolio Risk
VAR breakdown
Risk Management
Risk at the margin
Portfolio Margining
Laying the foundations
Credit Portfolio Management
Filling niches
Structured Products
Burnt by contango
Investors have poured tens of billions of dollars into commodity index products, but some claim the flood of capital has caused structural changes in commodity markets. And as spot prices fall, it could lead to an exodus of cash from these investments…
Still much to do
Basel II
Taking stock in shanghai
Q&A: James Liu
Money laundering regulation accounts for the majority of financial administrative burden for firms in the UK
Regulation pertaining to money laundering accounts for 42.77% of all financial administrative burdens, according to the UK’s financial services authority (FSA) progress report on its better regulation action plan (BRAP).
UK Treasury releases summary of responses to transposition guidelines of the CRD
The Treasury in the UK has published a summary of responses to its call for comments on the transposition of the capital requirements directive (CRD).
Convergence on credit
Spurred on by Solvency II, insurance companies are refining their approach to managing credit risk. As a result, some insurers' credit risk management methods are beginning to converge with those favoured by banks. By Rachel Wolcott
Euronext lists first leveraged ETF on Nasdaq-100
Euronext Paris has listed its first leveraged ETF based on a US equity index. The product, based on the Nasdaq-100 Index, is structured by Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM), a subsidiary of the Société Générale Group.
To hedge or not to hedge
While new derivatives-accounting standard IAS 39 should not in itself drive business decisions, reviewing risk-management practices as a result of the new rules may be no bad thing for corporates, says Duncan Mansfield
BIS GM cites recent financial volatility as reason to remain vigilant against threats to financial stability
Malcolm Knight, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) discussed the implications of market volatility and uncertainty over asset price movements and inflation risks at the BIS’s annual general meeting on Monday.
Nomura's equity derivatives head departs
Joachim Willnow, head of equity derivatives at Nomura in London, has left the bank. He has been replaced by Mike Fullalove and Marco Mocquard, who have been promoted to co-heads of the equity derivatives business for the Japanese bank. Fullalove would…
Lyxor offers absolute Korea guaranteed fund
Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of French bank SG, has launched a 100% three-year capital guaranteed fund linked to the absolute performance of KOSPI 200 index in Hong Kong. The KOSPI 200 Index is a capitalisation weighted index of 200 Korean stocks…
JP Morgan launches retail petrol index in Germany
JP Morgan has launched an index that monitors the changes in the retail pump price of petrol in Germany. The JP Morgan SuperBleifrei Flat Tax Index is a tradable index, and is intended for use in structured investment products to enable investors to…