People
Playing catch-up
Technology
Dealing with the flak
Profile
AIB’s Rusnak put false trades into SunGard’s Devon system
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
ORX loss database expected to start soon
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
Banks see little to learn from AIB control failures
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Catch 22 for corporate liquidity
Companies facing relatively minor business difficulties are being shut out of the commercial paper market, forcing their treasurers to scramble for alternative financing to avoid insolvency. Is there any way to manage this liquidity risk?
Capital thinking
Manuel Méndez aims to have BBVA among the first to qualify for Basel II’s advanced risk capital approaches.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Corporate disclosure | Exposing exposures: how far will it go?
The Enron debacle has spurred investors and creditors to press for greater disclosure of corporate risk and hedging strategies. Companies are beginning to respond. How far will it go? Naomi Humphries reports
Fannie and Freddie – a look under the lid
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the largest and most sophisticated participants in the US interest rate derivatives market. But criticism of their risk management has been growing. Is the market safe?
NSSB hires fixed-income derivatives structurer
Nikko Salomon Smith Barney (NSSB) has hired Tatsuya Takeda as a director in its fixed-income derivatives team, according to an official at the bank in Tokyo.
US insurer hires credit derivatives specialist
American Capital Access (ACA), a US financial insurance specialist, has hired Joseph Pimbley as its credit derivatives portfolio manager.
Swiss Re Financial Services names Godfrey as chief risk officer
Swiss Re Financial Services Business Group, a unit of reinsurer Swiss Re, has hired David Godfrey as chief risk officer.
Derivatives expert Calello made new head of CSFB Asia-Pacific
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has named Paul Calello chairman and chief executive of the Asia-Pacific region including Japan, Australia and New Zealand. He will relocate to Hong Kong from New York, where he was head of the firm's global equity…
Derivatives unit unaffected by ABN Amro cuts
ABN Amro's decision effectively to pull out of the US cash equities and M&A business will leave its derivatives business intact.
Credit derivatives majors form data alliance
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase have launched a credit derivatives market data scrubbing and sharing project meant to head off disputes among market participants over the terms of their contracts.
CSFB hires structurer in NY
Tony Capozzoli has joined Credit Suisse's investment banking arm, CSFB, in New York as a corporate structurer, leaving his role as a senior risk analyst at Bank of America, also on Wall Street.