Japan
Disenchantment with equities boosts attractions of forex
Tapping the power of forex
Video: Japan earthquake highlighted ‘lifeline role’ of banking services
Hiromi Yamaoka from the Bank of Japan, Masao Hasegawa from MUFG, and Takashi Oyama from Norinchukin Bank explain the lessons learned following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. These include the importance of comprehensive business continuity…
Lessons from Japan: Communication key to business continuity
Disaster response
Barclays launches volatility ETN in Japan
Barclays Bank has listed a volatility exchange-traded note linked to the S&P Vix Short-Term Futures Index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Video: BoJ’s Hiromi Yamaoka on the failure of global rulemakers to learn from Japan’s ‘lost decade’
Experience from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s showed the importance of maintaining the core intermediation function of banks by not placing an excessive regulatory burden on them, a lesson that US and European regulators may have failed to grasp,…
Asian reinsurance costs soar by up to 40% due to natural disaster payouts – Moody’s
A number of major natural disasters during the past year has increased reinsurance costs in Asia, with some Japanese insurers seeing a rise of 20% or more in the cost of reinsurance. But demand for reinsurance is still growing, according to Moody’s…
Photogallery: Risk Japan 2011
Photographs from the Risk Japan 2011 conference, held in Tokyo on August 30
Risk Japan 2011: Too-big-to-fail rules should be scrapped in favour of ‘bridge banks’
Japan looked at the need to impose excess capital for systemically important financial institutions in the 1990s and rejected it in favour of ‘bridge banks’ which could inherit losses in the event of a major bank getting into trouble. One university…
Risk Japan 2011: Japan, Europe need to team up to address Dodd-Frank extraterritoriality
Speakers on a panel at Risk Japan 2011 in Tokyo on August 30 debated the effects of international regulatory developments on Japanese financial institutions. Some parties believe Japan needs to team up with Europe to push back on Dodd-Frank…
Risk Japan 2011: MUFG risk chief hits out at supervisors on RRPs
Masao Hasegawa, CRO at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, says he was taken aback by a regulatory requirement to develop a resolution and recovery plan before year-end
Risk Japan 2011: Mizuho Securities CRO praises Fed's Jackson Hole position; looks to Japan's new prime minister on JGB security
During a question and answer session at Risk Japan 2011 in Tokyo today, Mizuho Securities chief risk officer, Kenji Fujii, tells delegates Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, was right not to have announced a new wave of quantitative easing last week. He also…
FVC custom indexes
FVC custom indexes
Global Custody Survey 2011
Global Custody Survey 2011
Barclays provides Japan with first listed ETNs
Barclays provides Japan with first listed ETNs
Investors caught out by strength of Swiss franc and yen
Intervention from Swiss and Japanese authorities last week to weaken currencies meets with mixed success and leaves trading desks facing uncertain environment
Japan’s new leverage limit will hurt carry trade, says Glenn Stevens
Japan FSA's 25:1 leverage limit implemented on August 1 could kill the popularity of the carry trade for retail investors, says Gain Capital's chief executive
Banks seeking high Asian returns may be disappointed
Uncertain outcome
Assessing nuclear risk in the aftermath of Fukushima
Assessing nuclear risk
Growing global gas demand to end Asian LNG spot market?
Experts question whether the nascent spot market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Asia could disappear if excess supply replaces nuclear in Germany and Japan
Insurers poised to arbitrage Solvency II-compliant rivals in Asia
Insurance companies active in the Asia-Pacific region are closely studying their European rivals to exploit any regulatory arbitrage opportunities presented as European Union insurers move to adopt Solvency II risk capital rules. But short-term gains in…
FVC Custom Indexes
FVC Custom Indexes
Selling volatility and correlation remains popular, but is it safe?
Making way for the money-spinner
Asian investors broaden their exposure as they seek diversification from the US dollar
Asian investors broaden their exposure as they seek diversification from the US dollar