Interview
HKMA focuses on offshore renminbi: Norman Chan interview
Proximity and tradeflows have seen Hong Kong emerge as the default centre for offshore renminbi trading. Norman Chan, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, explains how his organisation aims to facilitate the market’s further development
People profile: Patrick Colle, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Global ambition
Q&A: Ann Muldoon, Friends Life, Solvency II programme director
Evolution, not revolution
Challenges and opportunities for Isda in 2012
Challenges and opportunities
Q&A: Steve Haynes, LV= chief risk officer
The risk challenge
Q&A – Ice Futures Europe’s David Peniket and Mike Davis
New directions
Regulator Q&A: Amando Tetangco, governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines
The head of the Philippine central bank explains how Basel III has a “perverse” impact on countries with strong fiscal discipline and why the Sifi designation is less important than rigorous regulation
Global X and the lure of niche exposures
Glittering Global
Atlas One looks beyond Latin America
Looking beyond LatAm
Interview: CME Group
New directions
SFC: wrestling with local versus international
The comment period for the joint Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) consultation paper on the regulatory regime for OTC derivatives closed on November 30. SFC chief executive Ashley Alder and executive…
Private banks hit by cost and revenue pressures: Kathryn Shih interview
Q&A – Kathryn Shih, UBS Wealth Management
Video: ING Asia CRO Doug Caldwell on Solvency II and use of liquidity swaps in Asia
Local insurers are still offering products at cheaper prices compared with insurers offering risk-based capital structures compliant with Solvency II, according to Doug Caldwell, chief risk officer for ING Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Caldwell also…
Q&A: Stefan Walter on Basel III, RWAs, 'anti-American' rules and CVA
“It’s good to have hard deadlines”
ETF roundtable: Questioning complexity
Fair exchange
Video: Japan earthquake highlighted ‘lifeline role’ of banking services
Hiromi Yamaoka from the Bank of Japan, Masao Hasegawa from MUFG, and Takashi Oyama from Norinchukin Bank explain the lessons learned following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. These include the importance of comprehensive business continuity…
Q&A: Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana
Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, technical adviser at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, talks about the country’s pioneering import hedging programme, as well as the hedging of output from the Jubilee field
Video: BoJ’s Hiromi Yamaoka on the failure of global rulemakers to learn from Japan’s ‘lost decade’
Experience from Japan’s financial crisis in the 1990s showed the importance of maintaining the core intermediation function of banks by not placing an excessive regulatory burden on them, a lesson that US and European regulators may have failed to grasp,…
Interview: Brix the new Brazilian power market
Powering up