Cross-currency swaps
Risk 25: How Basel III is turning borders into barriers
Turning borders into barriers
Cooking with collateral
Cooking with collateral
UK utilities face swap counterparty shortage
Bank downgrades could leave many structured finance transactions without acceptable swap providers - a potential nightmare for UK utilities
Downgrade doomsday: utilities fear swap dealer shortage
Downgrade doomsday
Forex structurers get it wrong
Forex's unreliable fortunes
Australian super funds look to cross-currency basis swaps
Cross purposes
Standard CSA: the dollar dominance dispute
The dollar dominance dispute
Financial institutions move to address funding squeeze in Asia
Funding dilemmas
Getting CVA up and running
Getting CVA up and running
Standard CSA: Industry's solution to novation bottleneck gets nearer
New CSA, new challenge
Standard CSA: Industry's solution to novation bottleneck gets nearer
New CSA, new challenge
StanChart bests the rest for coporates derivatives in Asia
The standard bearer
Eurostat continues to deny knowledge of Greece-Goldman swaps
Statistics body insists it only found out about the controversial cross-currency swaps between Greece and Goldman Sachs in 2010
China gives the go-ahead to forex options and cross-currency swaps
Hedging gains currency
BoAML debuts cross-currency swap with corporate onshore in China
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has conducted what is believed to be the first currency swap in China with a corporate client after Safe gave the green light for such transactions to start trading on March 1.
FX risk tools grow as intra-Asia trade and investment soars
Intra-regional surge
One-way collateral agreements with sovereign leave banks exposed
A call for collateral
Central banks accused of collateral hypocrisy
Despite the funding risk it creates, central banks still refuse to sign two-way collateral agreements
Dealers face funding time-bomb from one-way CSAs
Five banks disclose $30 billion obligation from one-way collateral agreements - and dealers warn costs could soar as interest rates rise
One-way CSAs pile up funding risk for banks
A call for collateral
China plans onshore renminbi cross-currency swap
Chinese corporates will now have access to onshore and offshore hedging markets
Choice of collateral currency
Collateral agreements are becoming popular in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Masaaki Fujii and Akihiko Takahashi demonstrate its significant impact on derivatives pricing with a direct link to the cross-currency market. The importance of…
Asian Financial Forum: Call for Chiang Mai upgrades, shorts control
Asian regulators note the risk of future market volatility due to fund outflows from the region or external global difficulties, suggesting that both Chiang Mai and short selling are among topics that need attention.