Clearing

• Infrastructure

Progress made in CDS backlog

• 01 Mar 2006

• People

Caruana to end stint as Basel Committee chairman

Jaime Caruana will step down as chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in July, when his six-year tenure as head of the Spanish central bank expires. A Bank for International Settlements (BIS official says the Committee plans to discuss…

• 15 Feb 2006

• Markets

BaFin eases clearing house restrictions

BaFin, the German regulator, has removed a requirement for financial institutions to hold capital against transactions with swaps clearing counterparties – a rule that had threatened German banks' use of SwapClear.

• 20 Dec 2005

• Commodities

2005 in review

The energy markets were a dynamic place to be in 2005, with high volatility and an explosion of new players hitting the scene. Inevitably, though, it wasn't all smooth sailing. Energy Risk looks back over the highs and lows of 2005, from the launch of…

• 01 Dec 2005

• Clearing

Major dealers issue joint letter to Fed on credit derivatives

The New York Federal Reserve meeting with 14 major dealers on September 15 appears to have succeeded in coercing the industry into taking more concerted action to tackle the mounting problems in credit derivatives confirmation backlogs. Following the…

• 06 Oct 2005

• Infrastructure

The keys to CDS success

Electronic trading

• 01 Oct 2005

• Credit risk

RiskNews

RiskNews

• 01 Sep 2005

• Technology

Playing catch-up

The back office has found it difficult to keep up with front-office trading, prompting a warning by the FSA over the level of unsigned confirmations in the credit derivatives market earlier this year. Banks are now looking to improve the automation of…

• 16 Aug 2005

• Structured products

Eurex to launch CDS index product

Eurex has licensed International Index Company's European iTraxx indexes in preparation for the launch of an exchange-traded contract based on the European credit default swap (CDS) index before the end of the year.

• 11 Jul 2005

• Clearing

Clearing service launches for physical power in US

North American Energy Credit and Clearing (NECC), the Clearing Corporation (CCorp) and Atlanta-based commodity-trading platform IntercontinentalExchange (Ice) have launched a physical clearing service for the US energy markets.

• 09 Jun 2005

• Regulation

The clearing challenge

LNG

• 06 Jun 2005

• Clearing

In the spotlight

The Financial Services Authority has warned banks about the high number of unsigned confirmations in the credit derivatives market. Banks need to take action to clear the backlog, and with the FSA watching closely, they need to do it quickly. By Hann Ho

• 26 Apr 2005