Infrastructure
CDS clearing house tops regulators' to-do list in drive to tackle counterparty risk
The New York Fed is keen to establish a central clearing house for CDS, with CCorp poised to launch such a service. But will the recently merged Creditex-ICE throw its hat into the ring?
LDI and beyond
Pension Risk Management
The buck stops here
Practitioner profile
Meeting the challenges of internal models
Featured Article
Valuation and risk analysis for Dutch pension schemes
Technical papers
A stochastic step forward
Technology
Market snapshot
Market Analysis
Comeback for convertibles
Taiwan
Chinese banks seek global standards
Risk management
Scenarios for all seasons
Technology
The victor emerges
Special Report: Regulator profile
STP for OTC
Straight-through processing
All Boxed Out
Special Report: Interest rates
Investors caught short by auction rate meltdown
Investors badly misjudged the risks posed by auction rate securities (ARS), and the willingness of dealers to keep supporting the market in the event of a liquidity drought, a new report has shown.
US Fed issues standardised approaches NPR
Daily news headlines
Small US banks free to pursue Basel II standardised approaches
The Federal Reserve has announced it will permit smaller US financial institutions to implement the standardised approach for Basel II compliance, acknowledging misgivings raised by banks over previous proposals.
Hong Kong to launch new commodities exchange
Hong Kong is to launch a new exchange offering energy and commodity products in a bid to capitalize on the boom in Chinese demand for raw materials.
CFTC closes ‘London loophole’
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has moved to impose US position limits and hedge exemption requirements on US customers trading WTI crude oil on London-based ICE Futures Europe.
Merrill, UBS and SG score highest in Thomson Reuters Extel survey
Merrill Lynch, SG and UBS scored best in the Derivatives and Convertible for Europe conducted by Thomson Extel for the year before June 2008. The leading pan-European brokerage firm for equity and equity-linked research was UBS, followed by Merrill, with…