Infrastructure
Finnish Eurovision
Nordic focus
A new twist to ABS
Synthetic securitisation
Rising levels of interest
Interest rate derivatives
Isda and FpML complete integration
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
The Basle II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
BASLE II UPDATE
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
Round-up of recent publications
RECENT BOOKS
Looking for blips on the radar
STRAIGHT-THROUGH SETTLEMENT
IT and staff quality seen as key as India adopts Basle II
BASLE II UPDATE
SmartStream and Omgeo agree on STP interface
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
The Risk 2002 commodity & energy derivatives rankings
Volatile energy markets, plummeting metals prices, September 11 and the implosion of Enron: 2001 was an eventful year for the commodity and energy derivatives markets. Kevin Foster and John Ferry introduce our annual rankings of dealers and brokers
Credit portfolio products proliferate
Large fixed-income investors want to take or shed sizeable diversified credit positions efficiently, without incurring lot cost or liquidity risk. Dealers are responding with a variety of new products. But which will succeed?
Awake at the wheel
While the markets worried that Dynegy could follow Enron into the abyss, Glenn Labhart’s risk management team helped to keep the trading firm out of trouble.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I can’t get rid of the stupid thing” Lev Borodovsky, co-founder of Garp, describing difficulties negotiating a transfer of ownership Source: RiskNews, January 16
Lighting the fuse
China
The missing piece
Thailand