Feature/Risk management/Economics

• Economics

Japanese banks: Turning up the heat

Japan's banks have faced a gruelling few months in the run-up to the fiscal year-end, with a plunge in equity prices putting severe pressure on capital ratios. But a further crisis may be just around the corner, writes Nick Sawyer.

• 22 Apr 2003

• Economics

Sponsor's article > Don't count on buffers

One possible mitigator of the pro-cyclical impact of risk-sensitive capital requirements would be counter-cyclical changes in capital buffers. Empirical evidence on this issue is scarce and a new regulatory capital regime could well induce a behavioural…

• 13 Feb 2003

• Technology

Software survey 2003

Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.

• 28 Jan 2003