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Financial market shake-up in Spain triggers changes in retail structured product wrappers
Fiscal and regulatory reforms announced by the new Spanish government have led market participants to rethink wrappers and product maturities, with growth and fund-linked products likely to benefit
Industry split over draft Fatca regulations
Industry experts disagree on the effectiveness of the much-anticipated draft Fatca rules
Dealers tackle euro redenomination risks
Back to the drachma?
New Prime Finance panel could tackle debt crisis disputes
An arbitration panel set up to tackle derivatives disputes could also tackle eurozone debt crisis issues, says Jeffrey Golden, architect of the Isda master agreement
Risk awards 2012
Survival lessons
Derivatives law firm of the year: Allen & Overy
Risk awards 2012
Chinese banks will avoid Fatca, observers warn
Banks in China will find ways to avoid complying with Fatca, according to industry experts and observers
MF Global: non-US clients caught in cross-border collateral trap
Omnibus structure meant clearing clients of MF Global outside the US were asked to double up on collateral payments. Use of the structure for OTC markets is now in doubt
Banks fear Fatca raises operational and systemic risks
Facing up to Fatca
ECB policy would shatter big CCPs, critics warn
Plans to have CCPs based in the jurisdiction of the currency they clear would pull apart multi-currency services, experts warn, after UK Treasury challenges ECB
HK Lehman minibond resolution may be approved despite bond-holder dissent
Despite objections submitted to the US bankruptcy court from the holders of Lehman Brothers minibonds, the latest resolution effort to reach settlement on the sale of credit-linked notes to retail investors in Hong Kong may still be approved, as the 75%…
Oversubscribed CLO points to returning Asian risk appetite, more CLOs expected
Standard Chartered's most recent Start deal proved oversubscribed, suggesting a returning credit risk appetite in Asia. Meanwhile, more CLOs are expected this year.
EC bail-in proposals could result in two-tier CDS market
EC bank resolution proposals could result in a bifurcation of the CDS market
Building sharia products from the bottom up
Bottom-up sharia structures
Bird and Bird adds Morlino in Italy
Bird and Bird has hired Silvia Morlino as Italian counsel in Milan. Morlino joins the commercial law firm from Allen & Overy.
China embraces credit derivatives
China’s first steps
Asia now the world's biggest regulated derivatives market, FIA says
Asia overtook North America as the biggest exchange-traded derivatives market for the first time during the first half of the year. And the exchange derivatives market may continue growing after the Dodd-Frank Act and other regulatory reforms, market…
Asia Risk awards 2010: Derivatives law firm of the year
Asia Risk awards 2010: Derivatives law firm of the year
The FSA's Retail Distribution Review: What price retail advice?
What price advice?
Trading positions – August 2010
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
Germany cuts euro and equity derivatives ban
Germany narrows shorting ban
Doing it for the Kid
If someone could create a short form document of three or four pages that could alert retail investors to the proceeds and pitfalls of a structured product, then regulators could relax, investors could do their own simple risk-reward analysis and product…