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Corporate Actions and the Need for Standards
The industry needs standards to automate corporate actions and meet the Group of Thirty's recommendations. By Gary Write, director, CityCompass.
Risk transparency without position transparency
When high-profile blow-ups hit the headlines, calls for greater transparency come to the fore. By Peter Davies, vice-chairman, RiskMetrics Group
Signs are good for IAS 39 final preparations
IAS 39 is still being finalised, but bank asset and liability managers are already putting in place systems and procedures to make sure their businesses come up to scratch. John Ferry reports
The dilemmas of risk disclosure
Barry Schachter discovers that the path towards a workable structure for hedge fund quantitative risk disclosure is very narrow. Bad news for the post-LTCM lobbyists
Emerging markets raise concerns at World Bank meeting
The discretion to introduce more flexibility in calculating certainoperational risks under the alternative standard approach (ASA) wascautiously welcomed by developing country representatives present at theWorld Bank/International Monetary Fund’s seminar…
JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley launch Trac-x Australia
JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley launched the Trac-x Australia index today, the latest addition to the Trac-x global suite of credit default swap indexes created by both firms.
Measuring operational risk: a reality check
In the second of two articles on operational risk, Mark Holmes looks at the measurement issues involved, taking a constructively critical look at the ideas currently in vogue.
Fed to change supervision structure for Basel II
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will change the way its supervisory departments are structured in order to implement Basel II, William Rutledge, executive vice president of the banking supervision group and a member of the management committee at…
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Sponsor's article > Basel backlash: the summer of discontent
Regulators in the United States have been voicing their concerns about Basel II for some time. But now banks elsewhere are also opposing some of the proposals.
Forex options software boosts exotics appetite, say bankers
The use of independent foreign exchange options pricing software by corporates may have narrowed banks' margins, but it has given a substantial boost to the exotics market, bankers told RiskNews sister publication FX Week .