Opinion
Reconciliation + regulation = complication
Incoming rules on portfolio reconciliation could encourage many derivatives users to outsource the process. But it’s not a simple short cut, warn Mike Pierides and Alistair Charleton of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Wishful thinking, the eurozone, and François Hollande
Wishing won't make it so
Backlash on the EU CVA exemption continues
The decision by European legislators to exempt EU banks from the CVA capital charge when trading with certain counterparties has infuriated regulators at home and abroad. Nick Sawyer discusses the issue with Duncan Wood
Long-term guarantees assessment threatens to open more divisions in Omnibus II talks
Long-term guarantees assessment threatens to open more divisions in Omnibus II talks
Editorial: Accessibility vs vulnerability
In broadening customer access via mobile banking solutions, banks are opening themselves up to a new range of cyber threats
Operational risk management and productivity
Financial companies can benefit from analysis of the relationship between volume and production costs
Editorial: Taxing times
Asia's response to the EU's proposed financial transaction tax is a sign of the region's refusal to accept the extraterritoriality of western regulations willy-nilly
Risk’s OTC clearing survey
In this video, Nick Sawyer talks to Risk’s editor, Duncan Wood, about clearing mandates in the US and a new Risk survey on client clearing
Disharmony hits EU
Fighting back
The secret history of the OIS discounting bonanza
The Wild West
Electoral shifts raise risk of European tipping point
Tipping point?
Risk-managing the next generation of savings products
Risk-managing the next generation of savings products
Piecing it all together
The aspiration to globally aggregate OTC derivatives data to determine systemic risk remains a distant dream
US-European divergence over default funds
Quotes of the quarter
Editorial: Blowing in the wind
Editorial: Blowing in the wind
Operational risk within the organisational structure
A place in the sun
AIFM directive changes relationships for prime brokers
Coming into force in July, the AIFM directive will likely to curb the freedom for prime brokers to reuse assets pledged by hedge funds for collateral, resulting in higher fees for services including leverage, says Patrick Colle, general manager of Paris…
Editorial: Clearing the way
Banks have focused their attention on central clearing – but trade reporting could prove even more problematic