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Providers announce strategic alliance
Alliance struck in equity portfolio monitoring
DrKW builds exotic equity team
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has added four members to its exotic equity derivatives business. The hires were made to expand the team and the bank's structured products business.
EU Rules may shake up equity data
In a move that shows no good deed goes unpunished, industry associations and insiders want to nix a current European Union proposal to improve trade reporting transparency because the new regulation will have a host of unintended consequences.
Emerging nations consider Basel II
Latin America will be the non-OECD continent with the highest percentage of banking assets under the various Basel II op risk approaches according to a new study completed by the Financial Stability Institute.
Credit risk models enhance link between credit and equity prices, say BIS
The growing use of credit risk models is helping to strengthen the link between credit and equity prices, said the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
In need of reassurance
The knock-on effects of the crisis in equities has hit the insurance sector particularly hard – so much so that UK regulatory body the FSA has been forced to step in and allow certain insurers to breach mimimum solvency ratios.
Canadian regulator addresses derivatives-based insider trading
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) plans to introduce regulations that prevent sophisticated investors from using derivatives to circumvent current insider trading rules.
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