Central banks
Beneath the tip
Review - Books
Actions speak louder
Financial consultancy firm CityIQ, commissioned by Swift and SmartStream, canvassed over 240 firms about their activities in the corporate actions arena. The May 2003 survey showed widespread automation potential.
Catching the Basel 'tail wind'
Christian Jimenez, chief risk officer at Eulia, has used momentum from regulatory change to overhaul antiquated risk management policies.
Corporate Governance Survey 2003, Part 1 >> Op risk disclosure: a long road ahead
Although most banks now have a separate section on operational risk in their annual reports, disclosure levels vary considerably. Here, Operational Risk's editorial staff review 15 bank annual reports to uncover reporting and management practices in 2002
German regulators begin industry dialogue
FRANKFURT - Germany's regulators are about to change the way they interact with the banking industry as they gear up to implement the operational risk portion of Basel II by 2006.
Fed links op risk and disclosure
WASHINGTON, DC - Two Federal Reserve speeches in May highlighted the links between corporate governance and risk management.
JP Morgan Chase launches 'equity default swaps'
JP Morgan Chase has developed an 'equity default swap', an equity-triggered derivatives product structured like a credit default swap.
SAB – the magic brew
Company focus
Bursting the bubble
Credit of the month
Sweeping it under the carpet
German securitisation
India awaits options rules
New angles
A different class of asset
Mortgage-backed securities
Implementing a scenario-based AMA
TECHNICAL FOCUS
Technology briefs
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Op risk disclosure: a long road ahead
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SURVEY 2003 -- PART I
German regulators begin industry dialogue
COVER STORY
Fed links op risk and disclosure
REGULATORY UPDATE
Catching the Basel ‘tail wind’
Profile
The headaches of op risk integration
The banking industry, spurred by Basel II, is acquiring systems to cope with the host of disparate issues that fall under the rubric of 'operational risk'. But how do you stitch these piecemeal solutions together?