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Senate urged to overhaul CFTC
New angles
Signs of the times
Survey
Vying for top spot
Emissions trading
Clearer signals ahead
Estimating CO2 prices in the first Kyoto budget period of 2008–2012 is now a key risk-management challenge for utility analysts. Abyd Karmali, Sebastian Foot and Nazim Osmancik look at what is likely to drive prices in this period
Carbon copycats
Emissions trading
The pricingpuzzle
cdo pricing
Successfully managing economiccapital in a Basel II environment
corporate statement
Integrate to accumulate
Cross-asset strategy
Unblocking the balance sheets
Technology
Shake-up for brokers
Broking
A new evolutionary path
Cover story
Unblocking the balance sheets
Technology
In the spotlight
Credit derivatives
Time to get motivated on modelling
Lack of historical data is hampering financial firms from creating the type of op risk models they must have in place for Basel II compliance. By Oonagh Leighton
New software solution from Protiviti
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Protiviti, the US-based consulting company formed by past partners of Arthur Andersen, has launched a new op risk software product. Protiviti enters a market-place that is in a state of evolution - although mergers are common, so are…
Providus offers new RiskResolve module
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Providus, the New Hampshire-based financial software firm, is planning to announce the launch of a new module for its RiskResolve product at the end of March.
Both sides of the fence
Germany
Basel Committee set to shift on counterparty credit exposures
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is likely to bow to pressure from the banking industry and change the way it deals with counterparty credit risk.
Caruana calls for more banking industry support for Basel II
The chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Jaime Caruana, today called for more help from the banking industry in verifying that the Basel II framework is correctly calibrated.
Capital requirements for non-Basel II banks
WASHINGTON, DC – US banks that are not required to implement Basel II, and are not choosing to ‘opt in’ to it, will nonetheless be required to update their approach to capital calculation, according to regulators speaking at recent US events.
MiFID rolls on despite industry gripes
BRUSSELS - The implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) rolls on, much to the chagrin of some financial services firms.
Basel hurries to clarify questions
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Members of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision are burning the midnight oil to try to resolve some difficult op risk issues before various jurisdictions are forced to finalise their Basel II rules to meet implementation…
CRD deadline fears
BRUSSELS AND LONDON – Concerns about the timing of the EU Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) are mounting as it is becoming clearer that delays – both due to procedural problems and disagreements related to the content of the directive – are likely to…
Germany’s closed shop
Germany