Europe
Custody Risk announces shortlist for European Awards 2012
The shortlist has been announced for the Custody Risk European Awards 2012
Ice’s decision to buy gas exchange bodes well for TTF: analysts
The Title Transfer Facility natural gas hub is expected to see increased market interest, after Ice's decision to acquire a majority share in APX-Endex's gas exchange
Time running out to comply with the Prospectus Directive
Issuers of structured products may not have enough time to rewrite their programmes before the grandfathering provision of the Prospectus Directive runs out, say lawyers
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FVC custom indexes
Retail structured products pose systemic risk, concludes report
Retail structured products pose systemic risk, concludes report
Countries will leave the euro by 2014, says ACI UK poll
The vast majority of respondents believe at least one country will leave the euro by 2014, but expect the single currency to survive
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FVC custom indexes
European biodiesel: a market on hold?
A market on hold?
OpRisk Europe 2012: Video
Highlights of the keynote speeches and discussions from this year's London conference
Update: EC publishes Prips regulation
As Europe's structured products professionals await the publication of the final version of the European Commission's Packaged Retail Investment Products regulation, the debate about what it should and should not include still rages
Commodity ETP activity drops 24% in a week, driven by precious metal fund outflows
Activity in commodity exchange-traded products falls sharply amid poor performance of the asset class
Eurozone scenarios: political analysts give their views
Unknown quantities
Greek exit threatens eurozone ALM
The Greek gift
Eurozone risk management gets political
Getting political
Europe’s institutional investors look to alternatives and cost-effective exposure
Institutional investors in Europe favour fixed-income and alternative assets as they continue de-risking their portfolios, with a focus on cost-effective market exposure and downside protection
European certificates and leverage products see Q1 trading surge
European exchanges record higher trading volumes in investment certificates and leverage products in the first quarter of the year
US equity ETFs draw big bucks as European ones lose them
While North American equity ETFs have had big inflows since the start of the year, those based on European equities have had huge outflows
Fixed-income ETFs lure the bulls, despite outflows
Fixed-income slowdown
Regulatory differences could be behind RWA inconsistency, report suggests
Initial findings of a review led by the European Banking Federation suggests differences in regulatory regimes could be behind a divergence in RWA numbers
Basel III commitment in question, says ex-committee member
The ongoing crisis in Europe is casting doubt over Basel III framework, says a former Basel Committee member
Stronger defences needed: stress testing a eurozone break-up
For a few dollars more
Esma: overburdened and under-resourced?
Esma under pressure
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FVC Custom Indexes
Asia lukewarm on European banking asset sell-off
Left on the shelf