Structured products
Topsy curvy
Interest rates
Building pillar 2
Regulatory capital
Out of proportion
CPPI
Flight to qualitative
Risk Management
Back to basis
Interest rates
Learning from subprime
Opinion
Tapping Tokyo
Profile
Incremental concerns
Basel II
Fully flexible views: theory and practice
Attilio Meucci proposes a unified methodology to input non-linear views from any number of users in fully general non-normal markets and perform, among others, stress testing, scenario analysis and ranking allocation. He walks the reader through the…
Jump-start needed
Securitisation
European banks in wave of bailouts
Daily news headlines
Barclays delivers Defined Returns Plans
Barclays Wealth has launched two Defined Returns Plans (DRP) in order to provide investors in unprotected equities greater security. The DRP Capital Protection offers 20% fixed return for a three-year term, 30% for the four-year term or 40% for the five…
Bradford & Bingley nationalised
Daily news headlines
Nationalisation remedy prescribed for B&B and Fortis
After another dramatic September weekend, British lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) became the second UK bank this year to be nationalised, while pan-European financial services group Fortis received a massive capital injection from the governments of…
Citigroup to acquire Wachovia
Citigroup announced today it would buy the banking operations of Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank Wachovia for approximately $2.16 billion in stock.