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Why Coso is flawed
Coso not only fails to help a firm assess its risks, it actually obfuscates the risk assessment process. By Ali Samad-Khan
TriOptima trims six companies' oil swap portfolios
TriOptima, a Swedish company dedicated to reducing over-the-counter swap portfolios, has expanded its service into energy. The company has terminated its first group of multilateral OTC oil derivative swaps, with six companies eliminating unnecessary…
Markit signs up 50th Red customer
Markit has signed its fiftieth customer to its reference entity database (Red) for credit instruments. The move means the St Albans-based company has signed up 35 additional clients to Red from its base of 15 institutions in January 2004.
From Basel II to Basel III
Financial institutions face major challenges in modelling credit portfolio risk, particularly in the field of CDOs. Walter Schulte-Herbrüggen and Gernot Becker argue that the main challenge will be in model testing, due to the increasingly customised…
A wrong-way bet
China Aviation Oil (CAO) revealed in late November that it had lost $550 million through trading oil derivatives – but not before its Chinese parent sold $108 million in CAO shares. By Nick Sawyer, with additional reporting by Jill Wong
The importance of ALM
The crossfire between the International Accounting Standards Board and the European Commission seems to have left corporates bewildered about the implications of IAS 39. Risk talks to leading advisory groups and corporates about the challenges ahead, and…
Citibank cut out
The suspension of Citibank’s private banking business by the Financial Services Agency in September has brought to light a catalogue of internal control and governance failures within the bank’s Japanese operations. And with Citi now cut out of the…
The game of life
UK life insurers have faced a new regulatory regime in the aftermath of the guaranteed annuity options disaster, which has led them to rethink their use of derivatives. Nicholas Dunbar talks to four leading life companies