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Banks must nourish sound risk culture, Spanish central bank chief urges
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Banks clambering to set up FX shops in Boston
Bear Stearns and Royal Bank of Scotland are among a raft of international banks setting up forex sales desks in Boston. The banks are attempting to take advantage of the centre's established pensions and mutual funds client base, market participants told…
KWI joins national energy committee
Software provider KWI has become the latest company to join the executive committee of the National Energy Marketers Association (Nem), a trade body representing energy, telecoms and financial services marketers and consumers.
Q1 scapegoats: energy and weather
Risk’s second quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures provides some evidence that companies are becoming more forthcoming. But losses on hedgeable exposures, especially energy and weather, continued to plague many
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “Chairman Harvey Pitt [of the US Securities and Exchange Commission] and I are in close contact, and I sometimes hope that every conversation I have with him will be the last on the single-stock futures issue” James Newsome,…
Getting the deal done
Falling equity valuations have made funding a merger or acquisition with stock difficult. Equity derivatives dealers are devising and updating hedges to ensure deals get done despite the bear market. Rob Dwyer examines the latest techniques
An aggressive agenda
Dresdner’s chief risk officer, Heinrich Linz, is masterminding a credit revolution at the German bank.
HSBC hires new head of risk management advisory for Asia-Pacific
HSBC has hired Ivan Wong from Citigroup as head of risk management advisory for the Asia-Pacific region, according to a source at the bank.
Standard Chartered creates securitisation capability
Standard Chartered has entered the securitisation business by stealth, hiring a global head of securitisations and several specialists in London and Hong Kong.
Rabobank sues RBC over Enron total return swap
Rabobank, the Dutch financial institution, has filed a lawsuit against Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) over a $517 million swap transaction that RBC entered into with Rabobank to hedge a loan the Canadian institution had made to a unit of now-defunct energy…