Interview
Interview: CME Group
New directions
SFC: wrestling with local versus international
The comment period for the joint Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) consultation paper on the regulatory regime for OTC derivatives closed on November 30. SFC chief executive Ashley Alder and executive…
Private banks hit by cost and revenue pressures: Kathryn Shih interview
Q&A – Kathryn Shih, UBS Wealth Management
Video: ING Asia CRO Doug Caldwell on Solvency II and use of liquidity swaps in Asia
Local insurers are still offering products at cheaper prices compared with insurers offering risk-based capital structures compliant with Solvency II, according to Doug Caldwell, chief risk officer for ING Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Caldwell also…
Q&A: Stefan Walter on Basel III, RWAs, 'anti-American' rules and CVA
“It’s good to have hard deadlines”
ETF roundtable: Questioning complexity
Fair exchange
Video: Japan earthquake highlighted ‘lifeline role’ of banking services
Hiromi Yamaoka from the Bank of Japan, Masao Hasegawa from MUFG, and Takashi Oyama from Norinchukin Bank explain the lessons learned following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. These include the importance of comprehensive business continuity…
Q&A: Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana
Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, technical adviser at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, talks about the country’s pioneering import hedging programme, as well as the hedging of output from the Jubilee field
Video: BoJ’s Hiromi Yamaoka on the failure of global rulemakers to learn from Japan’s ‘lost decade’
Experience from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s showed the importance of maintaining the core intermediation function of banks by not placing an excessive regulatory burden on them, a lesson that US and European regulators may have failed to grasp,…
Interview: Brix the new Brazilian power market
Powering up
Q&A: Gerardo Rodriguez, Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Mexico's 2012 oil hedging programme
Q&A: Myron Scholes on LTCM, crisis lessons and the value of intermediation
Quants' golden age
Hung Tran: 21% NPV reduction was a "reasonable assumption"
Everyone has a shared interest in the success of the Greek bailout because "the alternative is so much worse for everyone", says IIF deputy managing director
Sean Corrigan talks emerging market risks
Diapason Commodities's Sean Corrigan discusses Chinese hard landings, Mena unrest, the role of Opec, quantitative easing and the likely market reactions to a Greek default
VIDEO: Custody Risk discusses the alternative funds industry in Luxembourg with ALFI
Melanie White speaks to Charles Muller, deputy director general for the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (Alfi).
Q&A – CFTC's Scott O'Malia
CFTC Commissioner Scott O’Malia shares his views with Ned Molloy on, amongst other things, systemic risk, position limits, the use of non-cash collateral and the jurisdictions of the CFTC and FERC
Eurozone bailouts exacerbating the problem – John Redwood interview
In conversation with...John Redwood
Deconstructing Emir
Deconstructing Emir
Dan Fuss interview – Part 2
Loomis Sayles vice-chairman discusses the US credit markets
US corporate credits offer opportunities – Dan Fuss interview
The US has recovered from recession but still faces an enormous debt burden. The onus is now on companies to pick up the slack in the economy and keep bonds buoyant
Offshore renminbi bonds offer value: Cecilia Chan interview
In conversation with...Cecilia Chan