Interview
Victory at last
The seismic movements in the financial markets last year confounded even the experts, as correlation took down every asset class and unwitting trader going. Victor Sperandeo, better known as Trader Vic, talks exclusively on the back of his latest index…
Central concerns
The European Central Bank (ECB) has been pumping liquidity into the financial markets since August 2007, extended the list of assets eligible as collateral for credit operations and cut rates to record low levels. Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo, a member of…
Building up Basel II
In an exclusive interview with Risk, Stefan Walter, secretary-general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, discusses everything from capital to pro-cyclicality, while outlining the reform agenda for Basel II. Rob Davies reports
Revitalising the markets
Governments are facing unprecedented pressure to finance bank rescue schemes through huge debt issuance. With supply coming thick and fast, the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) has been steering a hazardous path to place its debt into the markets. Until…
Sharing the pain
The financial crisis has exposed serious flaws in risk management and business practices at many institutions across the world, and provided sizeable challenges for supervisors trying to extinguish the fires. Sabine Lautenschlager-Peiter, head of banking…
Time for change
The US has been at the centre of the storm raging through financial markets over the past year, and the country's regulators have been tasked with stemming the fallout from the crisis. John Dugan, comptroller of the currency, discusses the regulatory…
Patrick Brennan
NewFinance Capital's senior credit analyst in London explains the benefits of investing in credit via a fund of credit hedge funds
Gary Jenkins & Jim Reid
Deutsche Bank's credit strategists explain the findings from their recent study investigating the past 100 years of corporate bond returns
Jon Schotz
Q&A
Dan Gardner
Q&A
Managing manipulation
Natural Gas