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Inflation option auction plans
New angles
Modelling the unthinkable
Insurance special – Terrorism insurance
Modelling firm tackles surety bond woes
New angles
Liability hedging without the tears
Interest rates
RiskNews review
RiskNews review
Goldman launches gold warrants for retail
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Tailoring internal models
Insurance special – Risk models
Playing a waiting game
With energy – and particularly natural gas – costs on the rise, are end-users finally coming to terms with the importance of hedging or are they still waiting to get burned before they enter the hedging market? Kevin Foster reports
CLS settles a trillion a day
NEW YORK — Continuous Linked Settlement, the new settlement service for foreign exchange, settled a record $1 trillion in FX payments on February 18.
Wall Street Hones BCP Testing
NEW YORK—Wall Street will be honing the coordination of its voluntary industry-wide testing of business continuity planning (BCP) this year, according to a representative of the Securities Industry Association's (SIA) BCP Industry Testing sub-committee…
Trichet still best bet for ECB job
Jean-Claude Trichet's trial is not an insurmountable obstacle to his accession to ECB presidency. But while the outcome is uncertain, French officials must come up with a back-up candidate, says Stephen Sandelius, Paris correspondent for Market News…
Commerzbank, IBM Mull Outsourcing Deal
FRANKFURT—In what looks like a pioneering deal, Commerzbank is working out the details of an IT outsourcing arrangement with IBM that would see the vendor take on responsibility not just for low-level infrastructure, but complete management of major…
The Price May Not Be Right!
Significant events that occur after a market has closed—but before the fund is valued—may lead to consumers buying a fund at an incorrect price due to stale pricing.
BIS paper slams rating agencies
A new paper just published by the Bank for International Settlements' Monetary and Economic Department, titled 'Are credit ratings procyclical?' takes a critical view of rating agencies' activities.
Basel trouble brewing in Europe's accession countries
Domestic banks and corporate banking customers in central and eastern Europe could have trouble adapting to the changes the revised Basel Accord would have on their economies.
Continuous-linked settlement: Extending to Asia
Continuous-linked settlement – the initiative designed to eliminate forex settlement risk – went live at the end of last year. But with only Australia and Japan represented in the first batch of currencies, what will CLS mean for Asia’s banks?
Waiting for guidance
South Korea's banks have made huge strides in implementing risk management systems over the past few years, but Basel II is not yet a driving force, with banks waiting for the Korean regulator to publish local guidelines.
Convertible bond follows hiring of Soros managers
new star appoints ramzan and beton to its bermuda fund
Japan looks set to outpace US and Europe after underperformance
Opportunities to be found as companies restructure