Germany
Seeking simplicity
Almost a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, German retail investors are again becoming comfortable with products from US investment banks. This means that domestic players will need to fight hard to retain their increased market share as the…
HSH Nordbank prepares case against board member
Losses and Lawsuits
Sharing the pain
The financial crisis has exposed serious flaws in risk management and business practices at many institutions across the world, and provided sizeable challenges for supervisors trying to extinguish the fires. Sabine Lautenschlager-Peiter, head of banking…
Safety first?
German Asset Allocation
Innovate to accumulate
New German Products
A simple plan
Changes to capital gains tax and the spectre of counterparty risk have done no favours for the German structured products market in the latter half of 2008. But with a level tax landscape due in 2009 and a move towards simple structures, Berenberg Bank…
EU approves Germany’s bail-out
Daily news headlines
Germany does not guarantee savings accounts
Daily news headlines
German banking association chief warns against over-regulation
Daily news headlines
The niche hunter
Retail investors in Germany have acquired a taste for sophisticated structured products amid a highly developed and long-established domestic market. But with so many alternative asset classes yet to be tapped, MPC Capital sees unique investment…
Uncertain certificates
Structured funds
The forensic approach
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German implementation of Mifid
Germany unlikley to meet Mifid November deadline.
Germany prepares for first linker issue
The German government is set to issue €5.5 billion worth of inflation-linked bonds next week. They will be the first linkers issued by Germany.
Raising the standard
The German insurance industry is actively pushing forward the discussion on the standard model within the scope of Solvency II
Filling the ratings void
Unlike bond investors, structured products investors lack the benefit of industry-standard risk ratings. But with investors, IFAs and distributors all demanding change, Germany's investment banking industry, analytic firms and ratings agencies across…
New York Fed picks up on confirmation issue
The New York Federal Reserve Bank will meet regulators and leading banks next month in an attempt to deal with backlogs of unconfirmed credit derivatives trades.
Both sides of the fence
Germany
Germany’s closed shop
Germany
Turbulent times
Germany