Structured products
In the hothouse
Funding
The fraudbuster
Profile
The creative hedge
Portfolio Insurance
Economic capital ideas
Class Notes
A long road ahead
Basel II
Advantage: Algos
Algorithmic trading
Employee surveillance: minimising operational risk and fraud through enhanced company-wide monitoring
Paul Henninger director, fraud solutions, at Actimize, outlines the four greatest practical threats afinancial firm faces, and suggests how they should be addressed
Financial firms need to goback to basics
The concept of governance, risk and compliance has evolved in reaction to increasing regulatorycomplexity and change. But, as Ellen Davis points out, it’s complexity and change that threatenGRC initiatives at financial firms, and simplicity might be 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
Libor under attack
Interest rates
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…