Eurozone
Risk Annual Summit: Banking union set for mid-2014, says ECB
National supervisors made “gigantic mistakes”, says ECB's financial stability head
White paper: Emerging themes 2013: A clean sweep for financial regulation?
An incessant torrent of regulation, divergent approaches by different regulators and the practical difficulty of ensuring compliance by employees spread across different locations have created major challenges for senior management in the financial…
Top 10 op risks: Political intervention
Top 10 op risks: Political intervention
Keeping it in the family – Aaron Woolner column
Keeping it in the family
Sponsored forum: Collateral management
Scope for more efficient collateral movement
ALM Europe: ‘Economic case’ for Basel III delay, says SG economist
Sequencing of the reforms is wrong, Société Générale's chief European economist tells conference
UK banks reveal size of eurozone funding gaps
Banks reduce cross-border funding of peripheral eurozone assets in an attempt to mitigate redenomination risk - but funding gap still tops £10 billion for Spain
European parliament Econ chair confident on eurozone crisis resolution
Sharon Bowles, chair of the European parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee, believes the end is in sight for the eurozone crisis. She is also positive on co-operation with US lawmakers.
Lack of governance to blame for Libor scandal, says IMF official
A failure of bank governance is behind the recent Libor rate-fixing scandal – and these kinds of failings could pose systemic risks, says José Viñals
Surviving the euro storm
Surviving the euro storm
Sponsored forum: Luxembourg
Luxembourg ahead of the game on Ucits IV
Eurozone crisis is a buyers' strike, not an uprising
Eurozone crisis is a buyers’ strike
Fixing the flaw in sovereign CDSs
Fixing the flaws in sovereign CDSs
FX Week China: CNH/CNY forward divergence threat has stabilised
A reversal of the spread between offshore deliverable forwards and onshore NDFs that caused pain for speculators last year is unlikely to recur, say economists
Spanish banks allowed to ignore default risk for sovereign bonds
Banco de España is one of a number of European supervisors allowing its banks to ignore a Basel 2.5 requirement to model default risk on government bonds
Eurozone scenarios: political analysts give their views
Unknown quantities
Greek exit threatens eurozone ALM
The Greek gift
Eurozone risk management gets political
Getting political
Risk institutional investor rankings 2012
Deutsche on top
Wealthy Greeks turn to offshore securities to escape redenomination risk
The massive drop in deposits held in domestic banks in Greece is partly attributable to transfers of savings into overseas accounts or securities to mitigate fears of a Greek eurozone exit and a return to the drachma
Eurozone crisis to have limited impact on southeast Asia – Asean Risk 2012
Resilience in regional markets will insulate Asian nations from any European slowdown, say economists during Asean Risk 2012 roundtable
Deposit flight threatens banks' eurozone ALM efforts
Attempts to match assets and liabilities on a country-by-country basis could be threatened if Greece exits eurozone, lenders fear
Power and utilities M&A declines in volume but grows in value: Ernst & Young
Slow global economic recovery led to weak M&A activity in the global power and utilities sector in the first quarter of 2012, but deal value increased almost 20% from the previous quarter