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China rate liberalisation to spur onshore IRS market
Interested parties
Cross-border vortex: Dealers freeze plans to move staff
Bordering on chaos
Basel gives on securitisation capital – but industry still unhappy
Proposals on proposals
Banks falling behind on Basel risk data principles
Room for improvement
Corporates held up as start of Emir reporting looms
The race to report
Integrating risk management with the investment process - a Munich Re case study
The perennial challenge for insurers and reinsurers is to make certain that the assets they hold will cover all their present and future liabilities. Traditionally, companies have sought to manage the risk of a shortfall through careful design and…
Risk & Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2014 – metals
For metals, the past 12 months were marked by plummeting gold prices, directionless markets in base metals and heated rows over the London Metal Exchange’s warehousing system. Despite this, the top dealers and brokers in this year’s rankings are largely…
Risk & Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2014 – energy
The past 12 months proved tough for energy dealers, with low volatility, poor liquidity and sluggish levels of client activity. Given this, some banks decided to scale back their commitment to the market – a trend that is reflected in this year’s results…
Looking back: Regulators try to slow down OTC juggernaut
Today, regulation is a fact of life for OTC commodity derivatives traders. But in April 1994, it was somewhat novel, as Energy Risk reported at the time
Deutsche Bank makes commodities cuts
Goldman names new commodities heads; BAML exits European power and gas; GDF Suez promotes Moorooven; Newedge names commodity heads; JP Morgan hires EDF power trader
The 10 biggest energy risk management disasters of the past 20 years
The history of energy trading is littered with losses, bankruptcies and other misfortunes that now serve as cautionary tales. Alexander Osipovich looks back at the biggest energy risk management disasters of the past two decades and how they reshaped the…
India steers offshore investors away from P-notes towards direct market access
Sebi tries to exert greater control over foreign investment by tightening rules governing P-note issuance and streamlining foreign investor approval process
People: SEC names head of complex investments unit
People: SEC names new head of complex products unit
Closing the gap between structured products and funds
Rise of the chameleons
Regatta to launch US structured product ‘portfolio’
Ex-lawyer turned financial adviser, author and advocate for the industry, Regatta’s Eric Greschner talks to Yakob Peterseil about the inroads structured products have made in the US, the work he is doing and what remains to be done to boost the…
Rapporteur Balz on long-term guarantees, Solvency II's level 2 and global standards
Two months after the landmark political agreement on Omnibus II, MEP Burkhard Balz discusses the thorny issues that did not make it into the directive, spells out his expectations for the level 2 text and gives a warning about the implications of global…
Insurers seize opportunities in European corporate funding markets
As European insurers increasingly invest in illiquid corporate debt, credit funds and partnerships with banks are helping them overcome their lack of expertise and tap into a market that offers high-yields and a chance of diversification. But markets…
Bottleneck in buy-side reporting feared
Beware the bottlenecks
China readies physical ETF market for offshore investment
Getting physical
Fed action need not stymie credit strategies
Presenting an outlook for 2014, Putri Pascualy of Paamco says there are more legs to alternative credit strategies
Dealing with a Section 166 review
Over £176 million spent on Section 166 reviews last year – can you afford to get it wrong?
Concerns remain on plans to bolster UK renewables via CFDs
The UK government hopes to deliver a healthy boost to low-carbon generation through a market for contracts-for-difference. While electricity market participants are upbeat about the proposals, there are lingering concerns about how effective it will be…