Foreign exchange
Investors and auditors differ on Sarbanes-Oxley's effectiveness
WASHINGTON, DC - Institutional investors and auditors remain at odds over how effective the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been so far, with the former advocating a broader scope for the act and the latter warning that it may have already gone too far.
Time-series pioneers share Nobel Prize for Economics
Recipients’ work on the analysis of time-series data has provided powerful mathematical tools for research in derivatives pricing, risk management and economics
Schwarzenegger promises market-based energy programme
Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly elected governor of California, has vowed to use market-based approaches to address the state's ailing wholesale energy markets.
Forum codifies Chinese Walls in credit trading
The Joint Market Practices Forum - an ad hoc group of four market trade associations – has produced a set of principles and recommendations tackling the contentious issue of Chinese Walls between credit trading and lending functions.
Forum codifies Chinese Walls in credit trading
The Joint Market Practices Forum - an ad hoc group of four market trade associations – has produced a set of principles and recommendations tackling the contentious issue of Chinese Walls between credit trading and lending functions.
Banks get set to prepare feisty responses to the US ANPR
NEW YORK - US banks are going to hit back hard at the country's regulatory agencies in their responses to the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR).
New fund taps computational trade models for forex trading
US-based online futures commission merchant FX Solutions is set to launch a managed currency fund next week based on newly developed computational trading models, senior officials told RiskNews ' sister publication FX Week .
First Taiwanese offshore primary CBO in doubt
The attempt to offer the first offshore primary Taiwanese collateralised bond obligation (CBO) appears to be in serious jeopardy, with credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) withdrawing its preliminary rating on a tranche of notes.
Philippines SEC drafts FX reporting guidelines
PHILIPPINES - The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week announced draft guidelines on the preparation of foreign currency-denominated financial statements for corporations in the country.
World Cup finals catastrophe-linked bond launched
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa), football’s world governing body, has launched a catastrophe-linked bond to protect itself against financial losses that would result if the 2006 World Cup finals were to be cancelled.
Survey spotlights doubts on Basel II
Industry response
Credit in context
Systems
Capital structure arbitrageurs build a following
Trading strategies
Any last words?
CP3 comments
US Congress Basel II bill is put on hold, for now
Washington DC – The bill written by the House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee, which was designed to take control of the Basel II negotiation process away from US regulators and hand it to Congress, has been shelved for now, say…
Secondary market liquidity
Liquidity survey
A fragile accord
S&P versus Basel II
Late for the party?
Retail investors
Weasel parade
CIBC
On the Fritz
Columnist
Bill of rights
Bondholder ultimatum