Japan
Japan's Aozora Bank raided following insider-trading tip-off
Losses & Lawsuits
Yen for yield
The Japanese government inflation-linked bond market has received a severe battering over the past year. The resulting dislocation has prompted the Ministry of Finance to consider restructuring the market, but what options are on the table? Matt Cameron…
Foreign exchange
Calm and considered
Firefighting to fire prevention
Risk Japan 2009
Japan's Nomura posts record $7.3 billion loss
Losses and Lawsuits
Building on Basel II
Editor's letter
Japan and EU meet for high-level talks
Daily news headlines
Japanese brokers face testing times
Plummeting volumes in Japan's commodity futures markets have forced many Japanese commodity brokerages out of business. Katie Holliday reports
Japanese exchanges move to set up CCPs next year
Risk mitigation systems for over-the-counter derivatives set to go live in 2010
Exploiting Japan's renegade repos
Japanese equities
Yen weakens as carry trades unwind, yen and equities decorrelate
The unwinding of yen carry trades and the de-correlation of the yen with equity markets, as well as wider economic factors, have all been linked to the yen's decline over the past month.
Swap stabilisers
Editor's letter
Best in Japan - BNP Paribas
Structured Products Asia Awards 2008
Japanese regulators release better regulation strategy
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…
Basel II forces more hedge-fund transparency in Japan
Daily news headlines
Japan’s FSA amends Basel II implementation guidelines
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) in Japan has amended guidelines for the implementation of Pillar II of the Basel Accord. The guidelines for its early warning system framework were revised to clarify and further emphasise the Agency’s approach to…
Making progress
The recovery in Japan’s banking sector means that country’s banks are closer to meeting the minimum capital adequacy requirements of Basel II than was anticipated even 12 months ago. However, challenges remain, particularly with regards to data. By John…
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.