Infrastructure
iBoxx to launch new European bond market ‘liquid indices’
IBoxx, a joint venture between seven investment banks and Deutsche Börse set up to create bond indexes, will introduce 25 ‘liquid indices’ in October. These will form the basis for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, as well as exchange…
Pondering structural change
Alternative investing systems
Correlation and credit risk
Active development of full credit portfolio modelling continues apace, even though it is not recognised in the proposed Basel II framework.
German focus: Trouble below deck
Despite weathering a number of storms over the past decade, notably reunification and monetary union, the German economy is facing a new threat.
LCH’s SwapClear signs up new members
The London Clearing House (LCH) has signed up JP Morgan Chase, ABN Amro and Commerzbank Securities as new members for SwapsClear, its interbank interest rate swap trading service.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “Regulatory fear is creating a lot of uncertainty, and that fear does impact the financial markets” Jennifer Patterson, energy trading manager at Edison Mission Energy in Australia, arguing at the Australia Risk 2002 conference last…
Trying to grow
Credit derivatives
Creative solutions for unique problems
Credit risk
Red hot in the frozen North
Hedge funds
Component proponents
Principal component analysis is a widely used technique in finance but can be problematic when different data sets are grouped together. Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa show how to resolve this problem using a technique from biology called…
The Hunt For Terrorist Cash
One month after the attacks on Sept. 11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. Now every financial firm in the country is a deputy in the search for terrorist funding.
Op Risk Looks Back... To the 18th Century
The 300-year-old statistical methods of Thomas Bayes are experiencing a renaissance.
Ford: spanner in the works?
Credit of the month
Keeping up with credit derivatives
Technical
Milan’s new collections
Italian securitisation
Credit Crunch!
Clive Horwood
Meeting in the middle
Cover story
Man Group
News
Trouble below deck
German focus