World Bank
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Côte d’Ivoire
Risk Awards 2025: Dual-tranche $2.6 billion deal enables African sovereign to refinance costly private loans and improve debt sustainability
‘It’s the economy’: forecasting an op risk climate change spike
History of op risk suggests economic impacts of climate change could exacerbate losses, writes op risk head
People moves: senior swaps at HSBC, new CEO for Nomura, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
VAR restrictions ‘will hit returns’ for sophisticated traders
VAR cap can be even more constraining than a short-selling ban, researchers find
AIIB risk chief on steering China’s World Bank rival
Martin Kimmig on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s challenge of overcoming patchy credit data
World Bank completes first SOFR bond hedge
The largest SOFR swap trades to date were executed on August 13
Emerging Asian markets question one-size-fits-all bank rules
Nations such as the Philippines seek a more proportionate approach to level the playing field with global lenders
World Bank bets on compression for EM currencies
NY-based start-up LMRKTS gets backing to support illiquid markets
Risk, AML fears hitting Arab correspondent banking
“De-risking” cited most often as key factor behind trend
FCA’s ‘zero tolerance’ on KYC fosters de-risking – BBA
Media and UK regulator’s approach to financial crime criticised at Commonwealth discussion
Deal of the year: Republic of Senegal / SG CIB / MIGA
Loan insurance from arm of World Bank helped cut CVA and KVA on a $250m cross-currency swap
World Bank plans to put 'de-risking' on the global agenda
Substantiated data should push policy-makers to act, says project head
Retail structurer of the year: BNP Paribas
Bank has sought to bring new investors into structured products market with innovative deals
Sovereign catastrophe risk transfer in Asia faces barriers
While the region is peril-prone no risk transfer deal has been done at state level
Credit portfolio manager of the year: Crédit Agricole
Risk Awards 2015: French bank shared trade finance exposure with World Bank
Creating the right climate for green structured products
World Bank launches the first environmental structured product
World Bank launches first '100% green' structured product
€50m structured note combines green bond with ethical equity index
Sovereign hedging picks up as developing countries end fuel subsidies
A push to eliminate fuel subsidies across much of Africa, the Middle East and Asia is raising interest in the use of commodity hedging by governments as a way of containing social unrest. But it remains a challenge to get sovereign commodity hedging…
Chinese government hampering financial industry, World Bank warns
New World Bank report sees flaws in China's regulatory system