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EU stress tests not as tough as financial crisis
Projected GDP decline for Spain, Ireland and Italy milder than during the credit crunch
Basel’s archaic op risk taxonomy gets a makeover
Industry moves to revise out-of-date categories that feature risks such as cheque fraud
Doubts cast on Europe’s IFRS 9 transition period
Dynamic transition viewed as too complicated for banks to use or investors to understand
Swap 4175: how a hedged loan became a €600m dispute
City of Linz v Bawag case underlines risks in municipal derivatives
Pension funds fear hedging clampdown in Austria
Local Ucits rules use narrow definition of a hedge
Astellon Special Opportunities Fund: Astellon Capital Partners
13th Annual European Single Manager Awards
Eusipa: European retail structured product volumes fell sharply at end of 2011
The European umbrella structured products trade association has reported that structured product volumes on stock exchanges in Europe fell 26% in the final quarter of 2011
Japan still backs EFSF despite threat to AAA rating
The expectation that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade France and Austria will have a knock-on impact on the EFSF will not deter further Japanese investment in its bonds, says Japanese official
Germany downgrade threat sees eurozone CDSs widen
Eurozone CDS spreads were back on the rise today after Standard & Poor's warned it could downgrade 15 eurozone member states, including Germany
iShares launches two sustainable ETFs on LSE
iShares launches two sustainable ETFs on LSE
SG hires Ganssmüller as German sales chief
SG hires Ganssmüller as German sales chief
Lee reappears at Deutsche Bank as head of GMIP and db-X, Asia
Chris Lee has taken over global market investment products and the db-x division in Asia for Deutsche Bank. Formerly head of the structured products group at UBS, Lee started at Deutsche in the last week of June.
Erste lists first turbos on Romanian exchange
Erste Group Bank AG issued nine individual certificates on to the Bucharest Stock Exchange as it joins the Romanian market.
Credit Suisse bolsters ETF team in Germany and Austria
Credit Suisse has continued the recruitment to its ETF team with the appointment of Levente Kulcsar and Annabelle Wegner in Germany and Austria
Wiener Börse launches two fundamental indexes
The Vienna Stock Exchange has launched the CECE Fundamental and the CEETX Fundamental indexes
From Russia with hub
Ambitious plans to turn Baumgarten into Europe's most liquid gas hub face many challenges, but if successful could radically change the continent's gas trading landscape. Roderick Bruce reports
The wisdom of prudence
ERM in emerging Europe
GiroCredit NY Installs Financial Software Systems In Front Office
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