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ETF Securities launches commodity index tracker fund
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and currency specialist ETF Securities has launched the first ETF to track the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Three-Month Forward Index (DJ-UBSCI F3(SM)), following growing investor demand for diversified commodity related products.
'Litmus test' case as banks charged with fraud over Milan restructuring
Four banks to stand trial over Milan restructuring trade
Oric sets benchmark operational risk scenarios
Op risk loss database consortium for insurers publishes scenario benchmarks
Smaller banks expected to suffer from new regulations
Speakers at a Chatham House conference warn of the unexpected side-effects of tighter financial regulation.
Changes to UK interruptible gas contracts could cause supply outages in 2011
UK National Grid’s decision in January to tell large users on interruptible contracts to stop using gas is likely to be taken a stage further next time there is a cold snap, and could lead to the closure of thermal plants, warns a top official at the…
S&P to launch commodity sub-indexes amid US regulation fears
Ratings agency and financial research firm Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is to roll out two commodity-related sub-indexes that focus only on European and Asian contracts in response to fears the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will make further…
US bank regulators align with Basel Committee on liquidity
US banking regulators have issued new liquidity risk policy co-ordinated with Basel Committee guidance.