Structured products
Commodity house of the year
Asia Risk Awards 2002
Beyond the dollar
Credit-linked notes
Getting the risk right
Credit risk systems
House of the Year – Japan
Asia Risk Awards 2002
A lesson learned
Foreign exchange
Automating the compliance process
COMPLIANCE
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
The Basel II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
BASEL II UPDATE
UK expects EU countries to re-open Basel II arguments
BASEL II UPDATE
Basel II overview: Regulators don't foresee lengthy talks
BASEL II UPDATE
QIS 3 suggests Basel II op risk charges and insurance role
BASEL II UPDATE
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Decillion launches first South African fixed-income arbitrage fund
Decillion, a South African financial services company, today launched the first fixed-income arbitrage hedge fund in the country. The fund, called Granite Fixed Income, will pursue arbitrage strategies on corporate credit, relative value strategies on…
Cadiz to set up South African hedge fund
South African investment banking group, Cadiz Holdings, plans to set up its first hedge fund, a long/short equity fund called Hedge Funds Solutions, on November 1.
Learning the lessons
Risk’s quarterly round-up of corporate risk revelations shows that increasing shareholder and regulator expectations in the wake of US accounting scandals are having some effect on corporate disclosure, but companies still complain about losses from…
First-class post
Stefano Calderano, head of retail products at BancoPosta, Poste Italiane’s financial services arm, has bankers throwing their balance sheets at his feet
Pensions’ credit crisis
The markets’ swoon isn’t the only problem plaguing pension plans, according to credit derivatives dealers. They are also dangerously exposed to their own corporate sponsors. Navroz Patel reports on recent efforts to convince pensions to hedge this risk