Central banks
Enterprise 2.0: the next generation
A growing number of banks are using Web 2.0 technologies within their risk management, trading and research operations. Clive Davidson looks at how blogs, wikis and podcasts are being applied by financial services companies
Asuntos internos
Basilea II
Reinventando el fondo
Fondos de hedge funds
Barreras a la sofisticación
Gestión de carteras de crédito
Sentando las bases de un éxito sostenible
ARTÍCULO PATROCINADO BBVA
Alternando con los mejores
Risk Espana Rankings 2006
Inflacionando el mercado
Inflación
Driven to distraction
Pension funds
Private highs
A consortium of institutional investors bought a 27% stake in HSH Nordbank in August, making it the first part-privatisation of a German Landesbank. Duncan Wood talks to Hartmut Strauss, responsible for risk and finance at HSH, about the changes
A quiet revolution
Governments have traditionally kept their limited use of derivatives close to their chests. But some sovereigns are now broadening their mandates to encompass a wider array of risks and they are increasingly turning to the derivatives markets. By Navroz…
A twist on the Arm
Mortgage finance
Coup hits CDS markets
Thailand
Promulgating pro-cyclicality
Collaboration between financial supervisors has never been higher. But as the regulation of banks and insurance companies becomes increasingly homogenised, fears are growing about the possibility that the new rules will increase the severity of a global…
NY Fed’s Geithner emphasises systemic risk in derivatives markets
Speaking in Hong Kong, New York Fed president Timothy Geithner has called for better regulation of hedge funds and the derivatives market.
BIS says derivatives trading remains buoyant
Growth in international derivatives trading on exchanges stabilised in the second quarter with an increase of 13% between April and June, following a surge of 24% in the previous quarter, according to the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS)…
Managing the mortgage maze
Uk Mortgages
Hot property
Derivatives
Thomas Huertas
The director of the wholesale firms division and banking sector leader at the Financial Services Authority in London outlines the progress made in resolving the operational problems in credit derivatives processing. Interview by Nikki Marmery
Rate hikes force revised outlook for credit
With the US calling a halt to interest rate tightening but other central banks continuing to raise rates, market participants have had to reassess their views on credit