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Investors and auditors differ on Sarbanes-Oxley’s effectiveness
REGULATORY UPDATE
L’Espresso loses out in interest rate trade
New angles
Inflation trading comes of age
Interest rates
US broker buys Measurisk assets
New angles
Courting success
Profile
Staking a claim
market trends
Creditors strike back
federal-mogul
The blame game
amerco
John Dingell
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How to check your price
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Job moves
People
The problem with power-reverse duals
Cover story
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.