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Ferc unable to regulate OTC derivatives, admits own official
Charles Whitmore, special assistant in the office of market oversight at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc), told an EPRM enterprise-wide risk management conference in Houston, Texas, yesterday, that he did not think the Ferc was capable of…
Synthetic portfolio credit products: coping with credit event risk
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House of the year and credit derivatives house of the year
Asia Risk Awards 2002
Mizuho tests Japanese CDO market
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Getting the risk right
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Learning the lessons
Risk’s quarterly round-up of corporate risk revelations shows that increasing shareholder and regulator expectations in the wake of US accounting scandals are having some effect on corporate disclosure, but companies still complain about losses from…
Chapter 11: not the end of the story
With several major derivatives counterparties in or facing Chapter 11, an understanding of the legal ramifications of doing business with them is essential, say Mark Speiser and Sherri Venokur
Pensions’ credit crisis
The markets’ swoon isn’t the only problem plaguing pension plans, according to credit derivatives dealers. They are also dangerously exposed to their own corporate sponsors. Navroz Patel reports on recent efforts to convince pensions to hedge this risk
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Dry market in need of liquidity
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Boston-based AIR releases terrorism risk model
AIR Worldwide, a Boston-based catastrophe and weather risk modelling company, today released what it claims is the first commercially available terrorism risk model. The model estimates the financial impact of insured property and workers' compensation…
September 11 accelerated energy sector woes, says S&P
Last year’s September 11 terrorists attacks that resulted in the destruction of New York's World Trade Center may have accelerated the onset of the US energy sector’s problems, according to a new report by Standard & Poor’s.