Infrastructure
What’s next for the exchanges?
Derivatives exchanges are wrestling with consolidation, new products and technology. John Ferry asks Rudolf Ferscha, chief executive of Eurex, Hugh Freedberg, chief executive of Euronext.Liffe and Nickolas Neubauer, chairman of the CBOT, to peer into the…
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Cleaning up the system
Compliance
A storm over CMT
Constant maturity Treasuries
Cross-products find their feet
Cross-product trading is no longer just a "mantra" chanted by sell-side bankers, said Matt Desselberger, managing director, corporate structured products group at Deutsche Bank in London.
Kosda to launch benchmark CMS index
The Korean Swaps Dealers Association (Kosda) plans to launch a benchmark constant maturity swap (CMS) fixing index in December, according to Seung Won Hwang, head of derivatives marketing at Citibank and co-chairman of Kosda.
Lehman closes $500 million Asian investment-grade arbitrage synthetic CDO
Lead manager Lehman Brothers said today it has closed a $500 million five-year Asian investment-grade arbitrage synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) through special-purpose vehicles Asia IG CDO Limited and Asia IG CDO LLC. The portfolio manager…
Risk managers set to benefit from drive to address FX operational risks
Foreign exchange risk managers are waking up to new ways of addressing operational risk in the FX markets, Paul Fisher, head of the foreign exchange division at the Bank of England, told delegates at FX Week 's first congress in London this morning. As a…
US interest rate moves increases market activity
Managers are moving to take advantage of the current FX climate.
Weather Board of Trade delays launch as problems mount
Atlanta-based Weather Board of Trade (WBOT), which was set for an October launch, will now only start trading exchange-based weather derivatives in February 2003. WBOT has also lost a number of its charter members, encountered problems with its fund…
QIS 3: Banks can use internal pricing for standardised approach
BASEL - Banks participating in the QIS 3 survey can use internal pricing methods to allocate gross income to different business lines for the standardised approach to measuring operational risk in the Basel II bank accord, global banking regulators said…
HSBC’s purchase of Household triggered credit rally, according to BoA
Bank of America (BoA) has used its new credit risk model to show, quantitatively, how HSBC’s proposed purchase of Household International, announced last Thursday, sparked a credit rally.
Basel II will lead to more instability, critic argues
LONDON - The Basel II bank capital accord will result in more banking instability and more pro-cyclicality, where bank actions taken in response to solvency rules reinforce economic and market cycles, a leading critic of the accord said in October.
A question of priorities
Japan's banks are aware of the need to prepare for Basel II, but it is just one of a number of urgent issues that need to be resolved in the Japanese banking sector.
Banding together for SME credit risk analytics
Germany's banking associations are taking a leading role in getting the country's fragmented banking sector ready to comply with the Basel II capital Accord. Germany's savings banks association, in particular, says it has internal ratings-based systems…
Totem launches European power and gas valuation service
Totem Market Valuations, a UK-based provider of derivatives valuation services, has launched an over-the-counter European power and gas derivatives pricing service targeted at oil majors, merchant energy companies, banks and former state monopolies…
Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian banks most risky in Asia
Banks domiciled in China, Indonesia and Vietnam are the most risky in Asia when it comes to economic and industry risk combined with problem assets, according to a 14-country study by rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
Sponsor's article > Credit derivatives: will the market keep expanding?
This article aims to give a brief overview of some of the main trends in the credit derivatives market and also proposes to analyse some of the underlying reasons why this market is experiencing such a boom.
Sponsor's article > Preparing for Basel II - how urgent?
Delays in Basel II have lulled many into complacency. But despite lack of final details for the regulations, David Rowe argues it is not too early to begin planning and initial implementation.
Shifting sands in the CB market
Convertible bonds
Pinching the systems penny
Trading technology