Middle East
FRTB implementation – Covid-19 and Libor pressure
Industry leaders discuss the pressures FRTB is placing on banks’ data infrastructure and systems, how FRTB may constrain banks’ ability to manage future volatility, and the potential complications to implementation caused by such factors as the Covid‑19…
Banks eye post-pandemic shake-up of op risk scenarios
Firms seek better handle on impact of global shocks, and hope to avert regulatory attention
Growing sanctions raise compliance risk for energy firms
Sanctions increase risk for energy firms as regulators step up enforcement, writes maritime data expert
Asia moves: JP Morgan names new Apac CEO, Axa hires six heads, and more
Latest job news across the industry
HSBC hires Credit Suisse European rates head
Olivier Herregods joins UK bank to run Emea flow rates
Corporates fear EU will spike Emir Refit reporting relief
Delegated reporting threatened by policy-maker objections to use of foreign banks
Credit data: ‘dirty diesel’ woes weigh on autoparts firms
Auto supplier default risks have jumped, as environmental concerns hit prospects for diesel vehicles, says David Carruthers of Credit Benchmark
Loans to offshore centres surge
Total claims surpass pre-crisis peak
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Debt Management Office of Saudi Arabia
Risk Awards 2018: New DMO is building a benchmark curve that could spur local capital markets
Margin rules spur Middle East netting upgrades
Bahrain, Qatar, UAE seek to bolster swaps safeguards
Sovereign wealth fund interns cost BNY Mellon nearly $15m
Custodians should retrain HR in foreign bribery rules as SEC threatens further action
Mena brightspot for fund flows
Funds of hedge funds, India and commodities strategies see redemptions but Mena focuses attract flows
Sovereign hedging picks up as developing countries end fuel subsidies
A push to eliminate fuel subsidies across much of Africa, the Middle East and Asia is raising interest in the use of commodity hedging by governments as a way of containing social unrest. But it remains a challenge to get sovereign commodity hedging…
Cooke joins HSBC as global head of operational risk
Moves from Barclays Wealth where he was CRO
India-focused hedge funds continue seesaw performance
Mena funds outperform EM peers
Convertible arbitrage hedge fund strategies continue to outperform
Developed Europe-focused funds report positive gains
Sanctioned jurisdictions struggling with Fatca
Barriers to entry
Demand grows for Islamic op risk managers
Islamic studies
MSCI reintroduces Saudi Arabia indexes
The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) has allowed MSCI to create and issue Saudi Arabian domestic equity market indexes
The challenge of standardising sharia compliance
Seeking harmony
Operational risk in dangerous regions
Danger zones
2012: another year of living dangerously
2012: another year of living dangerously
Worse than we thought
Worse than we thought