Structured products
A strategic focus
Comment
Making cost savings
Equity systems
Looking for critical mass
Profile
Small firms welcome EU proposals
EU PAPER
EU capital rules remain on tight schedule
BASEL II UPDATE
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
ORX database expected early next year
FRONT PAGE NEWS
The Basel II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
BASEL II UPDATE
Op risk modelling for extremes
SMALL SAMPLE MODELLING
Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place. By Matthew Crabbe
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…
Listeds building
The over-the-counter market’s pace of development since the late 1980s has been astonishing, but a similar tale of growth, innovation and controversy can be told of the listed products markets. John Ferry looks at the major trends at the futures and…
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Deutsche Bank credit team gets a Spanish lesson
Use of credit derivatives in structured products under scrutiny after BZ Gestion fund suffers losses