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Japan Credit Market Update: Spreads track equities on WorldCom fears
The cost of default protection on Japanese credits stabilised on Friday after Wednesday’s sharp widening caused by a $3.8 billion accounting scandal at US telecommunications group WorldCom, volatile equity markets and the steady strengthening of the yen…
Japan credit market update: technology sector spreads hit by Nasdaq slump
Credit default swap spreads on Japanese technology names were wider this week, in part due to the decline in the technology-heavy Nasdaq equity market in the US but also due to a technical correction caused by range-bound trading, dealers said.
Japan Credit Market Update: Spreads tighten in technical correction
Spreads on Japanese credit default swaps were tighter this week, in what traders described as a technical correction after a raft of convertible bond issue hedges in the past couple of months had earlier forced spreads wider.
Swiss and UK banks set to win as Japanese lose in Basel II
Swiss and UK banks are poised to be the main beneficiaries of the proposed new regulatory capital Accord, Basel II, according to results from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s quantitative impact study 2.5 (QIS2.5).
Balancing belief and science
Japan’s banks are protesting against Basel’s proposed operational risk capital charge. They claim their risk levels are much lower than those of banks from other countries, but there is little hard data available to back this claim up. Anthony Rowley…
Basel inflicts collateral damage
The current Basel proposals could lead to the global spread of the type of systemic loan loss problems Japan is now experiencing, argues John Frye of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Basel reform: why the market should decide
The 1988 Basel Accord made bank capital rules more precise. But this did not save the Japanese banking system or slow the erosion of credit intermediation by US banks. Mark Brickell, managing director at JP Morgan in New York, has been an architect of…
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