Opinion
Life in the Solvency II spotlight
Analysts will want to look beyond transitional measures
Changing face of stock-lending and repo
New entrants eyeing opportunities
Energy stirs political passions around the globe
Keystone XL, Russia, position limits and the ‘big six’ draw strong views
Call for user-owned utilities to lower central clearing cost
But monopoly or duopoly inefficient, BNY Mellon says
Volatility and correlation don’t measure what you think
Two ubiquitous risk analytics are easily and often misunderstood
Traders and politicians can learn from dead pilots
Trading portfolios are easily mishandled, as are Europe's economies
Collateral damage: what HSBC's troubles mean for AMA
HSBC affair highlights a problem with modelling op risk capital
Beware the pitfalls of averaging in structured products
Practice is useful for dampening volatility in valuations but carries risks
Cutting edge introduction: FVA out of balance
Some quants are arguing FVA should not be part of earnings
Is reputation risk overstated?
Operational incidents do not always give firms a bad name
The invisible incentives of clearing
Leverage ratio is making life difficult for clearing's gatekeepers
An idea whose time has come?
Discussions about whether to break up Sifis have hit the mainstream
Asia Risk marks 20th anniversary
Asia's capital markets have evolved over the last two decades - and so has Asia Risk
Risk assessment warning for medium-term investment horizons
Such hedge funds cannot be assessed just by data
One in 12 alternative firms to face SEC action
In 2013 SEC increased formal orders of investigations by 20%
Primes re-pricing and exiting their tails
Start-ups struggling to establish multiple PB relationships
UK banking reform and the Senior Managers Regime
2015 rules promise oversight increase
Market manipulation push is widening the compliance gap
Aggressive pursuit of wrongdoing harms market efficiency and competition
Commodity derivatives lead the way for OTC reform
Enron proved merits of bottom-up evolution, not change imposed from above
Managed futures ‘not a tail risk strategy'
Investors should not try to time allocations, says Abbey
Crypto-currencies pose risk management questions for banks
Uncertainty reigns over the legal and accounting status of currencies such as bitcoin and their regulation
Op risk benefits from looking outside the office
Air safety and epidemics are all relevant to bank ORM
BlueBay: "ever higher" market dislocation, mispricing of risk
But bank deleveraging problem loans creates opportunities
End of the bumping grind?
In quest for processing power, banks are choosing 'unnatural' calculus over fancy chips