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A cost/benefit approach to Basel II

The cost of implementing Basel II could put banks at a competitive disadvantage compared with non-banks, and spur them to ‘de-bank’ to avoid this regulatory burden. Harry Stordel and Andrew Cross say regulators must look at the provisions from a cost…

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The active manager

SG Asset Management’s Stéphane Farouze provides tailor-made capital guarantees for investment managers. After closing some of the biggest deals in Europe, now he is eyeing the US

Nine billion ways to be snowed

Emanuel Derman separates real tools from passing trends in the risk management vocabulary. This article is adapted from his talk on Future Innovations in Risk Management, presented at the April Risk 2002 Conference in Paris

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Job moves

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “It is likely that doubt and a lack of market confidence will affect all energy trading for some time to come” Francis Hervé, chief executive of EDF Trading, the London-based trading subsidiary of Electricité de France (EDF),…

The benefits of Enron

Many corporations are keeping a low profile when it comes to their derivatives use. But when the Enron-related witch-hunts are over, companies may find that insurers and shareholders now view corporate hedging as a fiduciary duty

SG to offer 'mountain range' funds in Asia

SG, the securities division of French bank Société Générale, has begun rolling out its ‘mountain range’ series of capital guaranteed funds in Hong Kong, four years after they made their first appearance in the European market.

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