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Sponsor's article > NIBCapital Case Study: Achieving Integrated Enterprise Risk Management
NIBCapital is an independent merchant bank with a global distribution network. Headquartered in The Hague in The Netherlands, the highly rated bank focuses on northwestern Europe and global clients in selected industry sectors, providing corporate…
The risk monitor
As systemic risk concerns resurface, Gerald Corrigan, co-chair of Goldman Sachs’ firm-wide risk committee, has revived an industry group formed after the LTCM debacle. By Navroz Patel
In the spotlight
The Financial Services Authority has warned banks about the high number of unsigned confirmations in the credit derivatives market. Banks need to take action to clear the backlog, and with the FSA watching closely, they need to do it quickly. By Hann Ho
Isda looks to past and future
Members of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association celebrated two decades of derivatives achievements at the trade body’s twentieth annual general meeting in Barcelona last month.
Barclays launches targets smaller trading firms in Hong Kong
Barclays today launched a new unit in Hong Kong to offer tailor-made advice to small trading companies via its wealth management unit.
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Sponsor's article > The dangers of complexity
The dramatic financial market changes of the past 20 years have introduced daunting complexity into the system. Much of this complexity is the necessary consequence of valuable innovations. David Rowe argues, however, that complexity for its own sake is…
Pricing 50-year bonds
focus: 50-year bonds
Sarbanes-Oxley The cost of compliance
Now that many US firms have implemented the new Sarbanes-Oxley regulations on corporate governance, boardrooms are assessing just how much the exercise has cost. The figures don’t make for easy reading, as Saskia Scholtes reports
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Customer is king
For Ramon Koss picking a good hedge fund for a client can only come after the client fully understands the product
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The impact of PD/LGD correlations on credit risk capital
Guido Giese applies econometric estimates of correlations between default rates and loss given default rates to modern credit portfolio models to quantify their impact on the calculation of credit risk capital
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