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Basel II – it’s not all devil in the detail
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Basel II: Time to prepare
Following the publication of the third and final consultation paper, Japan's banks are focusing more seriously on Basel II. With the new requirements set to take effect from 2006, most banks face a critical year ahead.
Bank of England research backs Merton model
Analysts in the Bank of England's domestic finance division believe a Merton model for modelling credit risk is "a useful tool for assessing the riskiness of individual companies".
Lehman and Agricultural Bank of China close synthetic CDO
Lehman Brothers International Europe, the European arm of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, has launched an arbitrage synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) referenced to a $1 billion portfolio of 120 entities that will be managed by the…
Risk USA 2003: Loan managers increasingly rely on credit derivatives, says CIBC's Bennett
Stephen Bennett, global head of portfolio management at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), believes credit derivatives are playing an increasingly important role in the loan market, both as hedging instruments and by helping facilitate mark-to…
Risk USA 2003: Loan managers increasingly rely on credit derivatives, says CIBC's Bennett
Stephen Bennett, global head of portfolio management at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), believes credit derivatives are playing an increasingly important role in the loan market, both as hedging instruments and by helping facilitate mark-to…
Lehman to launch credit default swap indexes
Lehman Brothers plans to launch a number of credit default swap indexes covering the US, Europe and Japanese credit default swaps (CDS) market by July.
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Basel Committee publishes additional QIS3 results
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published additional statistical data from the third quantitative impact study (QIS3), which was originally released on May 5.