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Gridlock in CDS confirmations
As if banks haven't got enough to worry about, new data from Markit Group shows that the amount of unconfirmed credit derivatives trades has increased sharply, to levels not seen for around two years. Simon Boughey reports
Moody's rolls out RMBS data tool for Europe
The EMEA PDS tool gives users access to the same kind of deal information for European RMBS that the rating agency's own analysts use
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Business continutity planning is high on the agenda for financial services firms. For the first time, OpRisk & Compliance has surveyed the market to identify the leading BCP providers. Victoria Pennington presents the results
Flu pandemic would hit quarter of US workforce
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Collateral management A business practice in its own right
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Index providers interview
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Approfondimenti - Gestione degli investimenti
CCDS unchained?
In October, David Rowe argued that contingent credit default swaps offered only limited potential for active counterparty credit risk management. The convergence of several factors could change that
SIVs in need of a service
Structured Investment Vehicles
Automated trading to compose 90% of futures by 2010
Pit trading is fading fast. An estimated 50% of all futures markets transactions in 2007 occurred through automated trading strategies – including market-making and quantitative black-box trading activities - and this proportion will rise to 90% by 2010,…
LiquidityHub adds dollar interest rate swaps
London-based electronic trading consortium LiquidityHub today added dollar interest rate swaps to its fixed-income liquidity-aggregation system.
CSI and BITS cut outsource risk
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Linked global carbon market could be worth €800 billion
A linked global carbon market between six major regions could be worth €600–800 billion, European Energy Exchange (EEX) chief operating officer Maik Neubauer said today at a press conference
Closer to the asset
As physical oil trading is increasingly influenced by supply and logistics issues, integrating specialised operational aspects into commercial risk models has become key. David Newton, CEO of TradeCapture, looks at how these challenges are changing…
Plugging the data gaps
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