Energy
Constructing an operational event database
Michael Haubenstock of US bank Capital One outlines a framework for an event database, formulated with current US regulatory guidance on the subject in mind. The text is an abstract from The Basel Handbook, which has just been published by Risk Books.
Dealing with a dwindling dollar
Corporates
Dabbling in hedge funds
Asset allocation
Rhodia in a corner
News
Funding the tube
Charles T Yerkes
An unsure future
CP195
Back in the game
High-yield cable
Sector roundup
Sectors
No strings attached
louise purtle
The one-year lag
market graphics
The iconoclast of Brooklyn
Profile
OpRisk accord sans frontières?
Capital Accord Comment
Ex-Merrill Lynch energy trader pleads guilty to fraud
At 24, Daniel Gordon headed Merrill Lynch's energy trading business. He has now pleaded guilty to a $43 million fraud.
Sibling rivalry
argentina
A complex framework
Many Japanese financial institutions now conduct their derivatives business through their securities firms, but there are a number of legal risks in using a securities dealer as a derivatives trading entity, writes Tan Ser Kiat of Denton Wilde Sapte…
Preemptive strike
The prospect of Eliot Spitzer launching a probe into fixed-income research has prompted the BMA to draw up a set of guiding principles for the industry. But some investors are questioning the motivation for such an initiative.
Basel across boundaries
With branches spanning Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, Standard Chartered faces a number of challenges in implementing the new Basel Accord. Yet Richard Meddings, the bank's group risk director, has his eye firmly fixed on the most…
US Congressman blasts Basel II while supervisors forge ahead
A US Congressman sent waves of panic across Europe when he announced at a fringe event of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in late January that he had serious reservations about whether the US would ever adopt Basel II.
Storms ahead
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