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From alpha to omega
The standard measures of credit risk do not efficiently capture the possible distribution of losses on a portfolio. But the Omega function may provide a solution for investors. Gene Yeboah
What is normal?
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Reasons to be cheerful
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The human condition
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So, what else is new?
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Systemic risk capital
We have seen what can happen when the size of financial institutions rivals - or even surpasses - that of their home countries. It may be time to limit the size of institutions through imposition of systemic risk capital requirements, argues David Rowe
Time to take stock
Plenty of pressure will be put on financial institutions to strengthen risk management processes in the wake of the financial crisis. However, firms might be better served focusing on getting the basics right, rather than necessarily doing more, argues…
Swap stabilisers
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Legal Spotlight
The ECB has set minimum standards that ABS must meet if issuers are to use the securities as repo-eligible funding. Angus Duncan assesses the impact of these new rules on existing ABS
Column: Nick Chamie
A huge rise in the funding needs of developed nations will hurt emerging markets
Risk-free isn't what it used to be
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Regulation: quality, not quantity please
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The danger of two cultures
A 50-year-old essay on the failure of communication between scientists and literary intellectuals might offer lessons for the future of modern finance, argues David Rowe
Funding fears
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New Year resolutions look at hedge funds future in 2009
New Year is traditionally the time to take stock of the past year and look forward with hope and renewed energy to the year to come. In most countries at the stroke of midnight the New Year is heralded in by making a lot of noise. The origins of this…
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Basel's not faulty
Basel II has attracted its fair share of criticism in the wake of the financial crisis. Ahmet Yetis argues much of this criticism is unfair
In thrall to the exchequer
Banks have accepted the bailout cash, but will this Faustian pact come back to haunt them?