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Insurance sector: moral hazard
Credit of the month
Credit’s secrets
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Letter bomb
Sterling liquidity
Credit Crunch!
Clive Horwood
The accidental analyst
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Running to stand still
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House of the year – Australia
Asia Risk Awards 2002
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Asia Risk Awards 2002
Hedge fund hopes
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UK charts insurance regulations shake-up
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QIS 3 suggests Basel II op risk charges and insurance role
BASEL II UPDATE
Commerzbank appoints structurer to US derivatives group
Commerzbank Securities, the investment banking arm of Germany's Commerzbank, has made Henry Flowers a senior structurer at its US structuring desk, part of Commerzbank's derivatives group in New York.
Chapter 11: not the end of the story
With several major derivatives counterparties in or facing Chapter 11, an understanding of the legal ramifications of doing business with them is essential, say Mark Speiser and Sherri Venokur
First-class post
Stefano Calderano, head of retail products at BancoPosta, Poste Italiane’s financial services arm, has bankers throwing their balance sheets at his feet
RiskNews review
September’s leading stories from RiskNews. Breaking news on derivatives and risk management, see RiskNews – www.RiskNews.net
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “We don’t have a problem with regulators telling us that we should tie our shoelaces, but we don’t want them to tell us how to do it” George Mathewson, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, commenting on the rigidity of the Basel…
Pricing debate bedevils employee option accounting
US corporates are lining up to advertise their virtue by being the latest to account for their employee stock options as an expense. But with no consensus on how to price these instruments, will it bring more clarity or confusion?