Foreign exchange
Editor’s letter
comment
Following the paper trail
commercial paper
Tragedy or farce?
parmalat focus
Poles apart
notching
Axa
cover story
Denmark opens its risk books
New Angles
SGX signs MoU with Dow Jones for Trac-x
New Angles
Risk appointments awaited
New Angles
A potential backlash
Wealth management
A spectrum of risks
Profile
Challenges ahead
Comment
Top six HK banks may adopt IRB
New angles
A simple majority
Comment
New regional directors named for PRMIA chapters
Karina Carerro has been named the new regional director for the Venezuelan chapter of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA), while Krzysztof Jajuga will take up the same role at Wroclaw in Poland.
US insurers’ loss reserves deficient by $30 billion, says Moody’s
Property and casualty insurers in the US are holding inadequate loss reserves, according to a study by Moody’s Investors Services. The extent to which some insurers are exposed to liquidity risk through this inadequacycould even result in future…
SIA defends revenue sharing between broker-dealers and mutual funds
The Securities Industry Association (SIA) has defended revenue sharing, a practice in which a mutual fund adviser pays additional compensation to a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary for additional administrative services, such as marketing…
CreditVantage launches European credit risk database
CreditVantage, a division of Fitch Risk specialising in credit risk software, has launched a new resource for European credit risk data, called the European Loan Loss Database (ELLD).
Operational risk versus credit risk: Similarities and differences
Many attempts have been made to adapt credit risk models to quantify operational risk. In this article, Gerrit Jan van den Brink of Dresdner Bank and KPMG's Thomas Kaiser compare op risk and specific credit risk models in terms of input data, methodology…