Foreign exchange
Shaping up?
Telecoms
Turkish crossover
Turkey
Patsystems saga continues
Patsystems’ extraordinary general meeting, requisitioned by a group of disgruntled shareholders on February 11 this year, has been postponed until March 23.
OCC says derivatives revenues, notionals down
US commercial banks’ revenues from derivatives fell by $805 million, to $2.65 billion, from the third to the fourth quarters of 2001, according to figures released yesterday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Arab Bank goes global with Panorama
Arab Bank is to use Panorama, from SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, as a global solution for treasury operations.
EIB loan protection
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BNL plans weather desk for Italy
Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is planning to set up a weather derivatives desk, which could add to the recent thrust of new players in the weather risk market. BNL hopes to establish the desk, specifically for the Italian market, by the…
Thyssenkrupp
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New multi-bank op risk data pooling venture
Over a dozen large global banks plan to form a new not-for-profit venture to pool operational risk data this spring. The Operational Risk Data Exchange (ORX) will be incorporated in Switzerland – selected for its data privacy and confidentiality laws –…
Hawke highlights "thorny issues" of Basel II
John Hawke, the US Comptroller of the Currency, this week said that “there are a number of thorny issues that remain to be worked out” in the Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord. Speaking at a conference held by the Institute of International Bankers…
Blackbird secures credit system patent
Blackbird, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based electronic trading system for derivatives, has secured a patent for its credit risk limit technology. The patent applies to a wide range of credit-sensitive transactions, including derivatives.
Basel regulators still hoping for 2005 date
The Basel II bank capital adequacy Accord could still come into effect by 2005, although the date does hang in the balance, international regulatory sources said.
IKB chooses Trema’s Finance KIT
Trema, a Stockholm-based financial services IT vendor and management consultancy whose clients include the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank and the Czech Republic’s ING Investment Management today announced that IKB Deutsche Industriebank had…
HSBC to bolster Asian structured derivatives operation
HSBC is to expand its structured derivatives team in Asia in an attempt to leverage off its interest rate and currency swaps business.
Weather risk solutions
Germany
Opening up Germany’s gas market
Germany
Two hubs or one?
Germany
At the heart of Europe
Germany
Controlling power
Germany
Out on its own
Germany
At home and abroad
Germany