Asia
Sovereign and state bank links - Product review
Societe Generale is offering investors a link to the sovereign debt of China, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand and the banking debt of the State Bank of India. Capital is protected and coupons are fixed at 3.3%, although the issuer has the right to…
Asia Risk interdealer survey 2007: Dealers
Deutsche dethroned
Survey highlights Asia money-laundering risk
Daily news headlines
Sox comes to Asia
As Japan's version of Sarbanes-Oxley heads towards implementation, other Asia-Pacific countries are also introducing their own versions of the US legislation. But, learning from US Sox mistakes, they are tailoring their reforms to their political and…
Defining the boundaries
Him Chuan Lim, Basel II programme director at DBS Bank in Singapore, talks to Ellen Davis about operational risk's complex relationship with both credit risk and market risk
IIF trumpets principles for relations with regulators
IIF seeks better regulatory harmonisation, starting in Asia
OP RISK IN ASIA: Time for change
Implementation of the core principles of op risk still has a long way to go in the Asia-Pacific region. Ellen Davis reports
Time for change
Implementation of the core principles of op risk still has a long way to go in the Asia-Pacific region. Ellen Davis reports
Isda AGM Singapore: Asia to stay high on Isda’s agenda
Asia will continue to stay high on the agenda of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, both in terms of the development of local financial markets and as a location for future meetings, officials said at the trade association's annual…
Perspectives - Ellen Davis
10-year anniversary
BNP Paribas reorganises fixed-income business
BNP Paribas is set to reorganise its fixed-income business by splitting its marketing and trading activities. The new set-up replaces a structure where the division was split into three areas: foreign exchange, interest rates and credit.
Collins Stewart merges G-7 currency options desks
Collins Stewart Tullett has merged the Group of Seven currency options desks of its Tullett Liberty and Prebon Yamane subsidiaries in London and Asia.
Asian basket spreads and other exotic averaging options
Giuseppe Castellacci and Michael Siclari of OpenLink introduce a class of exotic options that simultaneously generalises both Asian and basket options. They develop approximate analytic models for real-time pricing of complex instruments that average…
A question of priorities
Japan's banks are aware of the need to prepare for Basel II, but it is just one of a number of urgent issues that need to be resolved in the Japanese banking sector.