Infrastructure
First aid or last resort?
rescue finance
Mark up the scorecard
Sergio Scandizzo and Roberto Setola explore the application of a scorecard approach to the measurement of operational risk, assessing both its reliability as a risk-management tool and the practicalities of its implementation.
Mark up the scorecard
Sergio Scandizzo and Roberto Setola explore the application of a scorecard approach to the measurement of operational risk, assessing both its reliability as a risk-management tool and the practicalities of its implementation.
End of the line. All change
The Financial Services Authority has released an update to CP171, its consultation paper on conflicts of interest within investment research. Now its impact on the future of credit research is becoming clearer, as Hardeep Dhillon discovers.
Investors should buy credit protection, warns Morgan Stanley credit strategist
Investors should use the range of credit derivatives products to hedge their exposure to European corporate bonds, Morgan Stanley fixed-income analysts said today, adding they are bearish on the prospects for European credit next year.
Isda pushes for automated trade verification for derivatives
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade body representing over 600 institutions working in the derivatives industry, has moved to accelerate the transition to automated over-the-counter derivatives trade processing by publishing a…
Mind the gap
UK mortgage lenders are grappling with Basel II. But there are still concerns about a credit risk management gap between the large and small lenders.
Cash upfront
New frontiers
Isda pushes for automated trade verification for derivatives
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade body representing over 600 institutions working in the derivatives industry, has moved to accelerate the transition to automated over-the-counter derivatives trade processing by publishing a…
Flexible bonds
New frontiers
Technology news
New frontiers
TVA will go bust, say academics
US academics say that the Tennessee Valley Authority would be close to bankruptcy if it were not for the promise of a government bailout, reports Paul Lyon
Bound by the rules
New frontiers
Winter of content
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Degreasing palms
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Nuclear renaissance
New frontiers
Contract killing
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Bouncing back
New frontiers
Fitch launches online credit derivatives tool
Fitch, the international rating agency, today launched a new web-based service providing data and analysis for the credit derivatives market.
Patience pays off
Platinum Capital Management has launched a new distressed debt fund after a long process of analytical research
Pension funds go for inflation swaps
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