Structured products
Banks under pressure to change incentives
Banks are coming under increasing pressure from regulators, politicians and bank shareholders to review their pay and bonus structures to ensure traders are not incentivised to take excessive risks.
Moody's names Polanski to oversee troubled structured finance business
Moody's Investors Service has named Jonathan Polansky as its first global structured finance surveillance co-ordinator.
Regulators push for operations changes
The derivatives industry faces regulatory demands to improve operations issues. In recent weeks, both the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) and the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) have pushed dealers to enhance the infrastructure for…
Increase in transparency requirements expected
Round Table
Myriad challenges face industry
Round Table
Editor's letter
Editorial
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Index invasion
Commodity Indexes
Room for skew
Skew
A new generation of risk
The UK government recently committed to a new generation of nuclear power stations - the first in the UK for 13 years - funded by the private sector. Roderick Bruce examines the financial and regulatory risks facing potential stakeholders
Brenda Boultwood
Brenda Boultwood, Constellation Energy's chief risk officer, talks to Roderick Bruce about doing anything you set your mind to
Joining forces
After several false starts the Iberian electricity market, Mibel, finally launched last year, linking the power markets of Spain and Portugal. Andrew Holt looks at what changes it has brought about
Building for the future
As US electric utility companies strive to meet soaring power demand, they are also coming under increasing pressure to lower carbon emissions. Richard McMahon of the Edison Electric Institute looks at how firms plan to meet these two potentially…
A man with a mission
The future of Russian energy under president-elect Dmitri Medvedev largely depends upon his ability to navigate the country's Byzantine political climate, writes Robert Amsterdam
Rising suns
Asia's rapidly growing and energy-intensive economies are driving a global nuclear renaissance, writes Lauren Hilgers
Unclear for US nuclear
Uncertainty surrounding the US government's role in project finance for new nuclear generation is threatening to hold back the renaissance. David Watkins reports
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GSEs
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Commercial Property
Back to basics: non-determinant deposits
Liquidity and Deposits