Infrastructure
Getting to GRC: some lessons from the best
GRC programmes are evolving rapidly into a more collaborative, integrated proposition. Mark Opausky, president and CEO of BPS, offers four case studies, each showing how effective utilisation of a robust GRC programme can benefit an organisation
Risk convergence and implicationsfor GRC technology solutions
Technology often provides point solutions for specific risk disciplines, but better results can beachieved if risk management is converged within a single framework. Patrick O’Brien of OpenPagesoutlines the principles of effective GRC convergence and the…
Clearing the way ahead
The major credit derivatives dealers, along with the Clearing Corporation, are working to develop a central clearing house for over-the-counter credit derivatives trades. How will this initiative work, and are there are any rival schemes in the pipeline?…
"We're politically accountable"
Regulatory capital
Loans return?
Loans
The best scenario
Technology
A tough saddle to mount
Isda's chairman, Eraj Shirvani, talks to Alexander Campbell
Restoring ratings
CDO ratings
Broaden valuation options
In the same way credit risk managers used to question how a loan would be repaid if the primary means of payment were to fail, so banks ought to ask if there is another way to value structured credit investments if market liquidity were to dry up, argues…
The sewers of Jefferson County
Auction-rate Securities
Regulatory reaction
Editor's letter
Faltering flows
Prime broking
European Commissioner backs power exchange merger
EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs has backed the merger of Germany’s European Energy Exchange (EEX) and France’s Powernext to create single Franco-German power spot and futures markets.
Central clearing house becomes a reality
Clearing Corporation, a Chicago-based clearing house, and the New York-based Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will launch central counterparty clearing services for a range of over-the-counter credit derivatives in the third quarter.
CFTC seeks greater energy market transparency
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched a series of new initiatives with which it hopes to increase the transparency of the energy futures markets.
Marking to market, to model or to matrix?
10. Mark-to-market
CDOs: Weathering the subprime storm
1. Introduction
Monoline insurers and the super-senior bombshell
9. Monolines
CDS and synthetic CDOs
3. Credit default swaps