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Balancing the books

Regulators are taking advantage of a lull in power project development in the US to close loopholes in financing rules, reports Catherine Lacoursière

Keeping EAR simple

Brett Humphreys discusses how trading groups can be captured within earnings-at-risk and cashflow-at-risk models. He suggests taking a top-down approach instead of a bottom-up approach based on actual positions

Taming the FIX connection

With large firms now juggling dozens of FIX connections, industry organizations and vendors are trying to soothe the protocol’s first set of growing pains.

The credit risk time bomb

Insurers remain very keen to both guarantee and invest in credit derivatives products, but key regulators are about to release reports indicating that risk transfer between the insurance and banking sectors might not be such a good idea.

PHLX Rigs Database For Contingency

When its internally developed database began showing signs of strain from rising options volumes, the exchange sought a new disaster recovery solution. Its choice: an in-memory database.

Basel II securitisation paper delayed

BASEL - The planned paper on asset securitisation in the context of the Basel II bank accord will not be published today as hoped, but is likely to be issued some time next week, global banking regulators said.

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