Opinion
Ukraine crisis renews importance of KYC
Sanctions and transaction reporting grow in prominence
Risk managers should learn from the mistakes of others
Early warning signs can provide vital clues to firms with ‘feet of clay’
Renewables and power markets must be brought together
Collective price determination should have an impact on renewable subsidies
Long-delayed settlements complicate op risk capital models
Delayed impact of 2008 crash means higher capital demands
European underlyings finding favour with Asia investors
A three-year avoidance of European-linked structures at an end
Learning to share the swap market
Asset managers, hedge funds and proprietary trading shops all want access to platforms that currently serve dealers only - a test for rules on impartial access and, potentially, the start of a long-awaited revolution in over-the-counter markets. By…
Trust is critical for operational risk loss databases
Data-sharing consortiums depend on trust, but individual firms face a prisoner's dilemma whereby providing false information can sometimes be beneficial
Commodities investing is still fundamentally sound
Commodity investors may have had a bad year, but putting money into commodities of finite supply continues to makes sense
High hopes for Brazil's onshore structured products market
Editor's letter
Banks have done too little, for too long on counterparty data
Regulators recently published the findings of a study of counterparty risk data at the world’s largest banks – it makes for depressing reading, says David Rowe, and is symptomatic of deeper problems plaguing the field of enterprise risk management.
Solvency II’s level 2 is the next battleground
Insurers have concerns about European Commission's unofficial Level 2 text
Questions over prime broker/depository discharge
Game of blame
GLG: coaching corrects behavioural biases
Coaching correction
The problems of explaining AMA volatility
A simple model highlights how AMA capital requirements can change dramatically
Small managers lagging on AIFMD compliance
Size matters
Emerging markets volatility lucrative for discerning investors
Lucrative volatility
Data loss is the price you pay for transparency: editorial
In praise of cyber risk
China at a crucial point in market liberalisation
Setting the cat among the pigeons
Beyond relational databases: a solution to data fragmentation
Beyond relational databases
OTC break-up may reverse - but only if rules mesh too
Nailing down mercury
Risk premia: the end of the road for smart beta?
Editor's letter
Remuneration policy occupies hedge fund minds
The politics of pay
AIFMD 'depo-lite' financial strength questions
Do depository liability rules leave hedge funds defenceless?
Commodity position limits may make hedgers think twice
Dodd-Frank and Mifid II position limits could cause firms to withdraw from commodity derivatives