Central banks
Rates rebound
Interest rates
ECB re-enters money markets as fears of volatility return
The European Central Bank (ECB) will push extra liquidity into the money market to counter "re-emerging risk of volatility", it announced on Friday.
Trichet predicts tighter regulations on banks
The president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, has blamed the summer's crisis on opaque financing models and mistakes by rating agencies, and has called for an overhaul of financial regulation.
BIS announces 135% notional OTC derivatives growth since 2004
According to the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) latest reports, notional amounts outstanding for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives increased by 135% to $516 trillion from June 2004 to June 2007.
Regulation and compliance biggest strategic risk, says Ernst & Young
Daily news headlines
Risk USA: Rate cuts do not “bail out Wall St”
The Federal Reserve's recent policy decisions have been “designed to help Main Street and not to bail out Wall Street”, a senior Fed official has declared.
Tax rules - trying to bridge the gulf
MIDDLE EAST
Eyes on the storm
Supranationals
Counting the costs
The cost of much needed oil exploration and production projects has spiralled recently. Roderick Bruce looks at what is driving the cost rises and what their effect may be
Changing the rules
Regulation
Russia reels from liquidity crisis
Central bank lowers minimum reserve requirements in a bid to buoy up vulnerable banks
Banking on a fall
Rates
Plugging the data gaps
Technology
Starting from zero
The EBRD's Alex Tanase has worked with mortgage lenders across central and eastern Europe to develop nascent mortgage markets - often starting from nothing. By Dippy Singh
Q&A: Rick McVey
In the wake of news that Thomson is to sell off part of TradeWeb, we ask the chief exec of e-trading platform MarketAxess how he sees the electronic bond trading landscape evolving
The subprime shake-down
The subprime mortgage market - the root of all the summer's troubles - may well be in turmoil but nobody is suggesting it is about to disappear as a source of financing for securitisations. The question is, what part will it play when the dust finally…
Legal Spotlight
In the first of a two-part article, Laurence Pettit, a partner at Baker & McKenzie, argues that credit rating agencies are not the malign influence that some would portray them as; rather they are a product of a regulatory regime that gave them the space…