Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (Bafin)
Australia lifts ban on short selling
The Australian Securities and Exchange Commission (Asic) lifted its ban on covered short selling on May 25, just over seven months after it was originally imposed.
Bafin launches market abuse probe
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Sharing the pain
The financial crisis has exposed serious flaws in risk management and business practices at many institutions across the world, and provided sizeable challenges for supervisors trying to extinguish the fires. Sabine Lautenschlager-Peiter, head of banking…
The Volkswagen squeeze
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Bafin calls for better risk management
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Preparing for Pillar II
The German regulator published guidelines on the minimum requirements for risk management at the end of last year, partly to integrate the requirements of Pillar II of Basel II into German Law. Alexander Campbell talks to Helmut Bauer, BaFin's head of…
New home-host guide from CEBS
MONTE CARLO – The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is planning to publish a paper in July for a three-month consultation period that will ‘flesh out’ the home-host framework for the advanced measurement approach, according to senior CEBS…
The misdirected directive?
Germany's financial regulator, BaFin, tried to steal a march on its European rivals by implementing a new directive that should open the door to asset managers investing in new products and using over-the-counter derivatives. But did it get it wrong?
BaFin approves ABN Amro SVP funded by structured debt
BaFin, the German financial markets regulator, has cleared a new product allowing financial institutions to sell assets into German special-purpose vehicles (SVP) funded by asset-backed securities without needing a banking licence.
German regulators begin industry dialogue
FRANKFURT - Germany's regulators are about to change the way they interact with the banking industry as they gear up to implement the operational risk portion of Basel II by 2006.
FSA and BBA lose key staff
LONDON - Both the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK's financial regulator, and the British Bankers Association (BBA), a major industry association, have lost key operational risk staff.
First sale of equity tranche from residential mortgage-backed synthetic
Aareal Bank has sold the first-loss tranche of its synthetic securitisation, in what is believed to be the first residential mortgage-backed synthetic transaction where the originating bank has not retained the first-loss risk.