Spain
Tech pioneers stay ahead of the pack
Sponsored Q&A: Altura Markets
Best in Spain: Commerzbank
New payoffs and underlyings enhance yield opportunities
Spain to launch structured product risk ratings
Critics say rule will “collide” with Priips requirements
Southern Europe securitisation markets thrown lifeline in EC plan
New rules ease treatment of ABS from countries with low credit ratings
Risk España Survey 2015: All quiet on the clearing front
Almost two-thirds of respondents say they are not clearing OTC swaps, up from 53% in 2014
Risk España Rankings 2015
Steady as she goes
Structured product sales approach pre-crisis highs in Spain, say bankers
Falling deposit rates and positive returns boost sales
Best in Spain – BBVA
Best in Spain
Fatca FFI draft agreement finally released
Long-awaited document sheds light on compliance requirements
Inversis taps demand for CLNs on Spanish corporates
Increased activity in credit-linked notes based on Spanish corporates has been the main feature of Inversis Banco’s latest structured product offerings. Jonathan López hears how Spanish investors are regaining confidence on local names that suffered…
Ibex 35 finds favour with foreign investors
Ibex 35 finds favour with foreign investors
Death benefits in UK annuities 'should be eligible for revised Solvency II matching adjustment’
Products with five-year guarantee period should be deemed immaterial under Eiopa’s new criteria, say actuaries
CaixaBank revels in the end of the deposit wars
To Euribor and back
Risk Espana survey 2014: Spanish banks play catch-up as regulation looms
Respondents to Risk España’s survey expect to see declines in over-the-counter derivative volumes as a result of regulation and believe less than half the OTC market’s total notional value will be eligible for clearing
Risk Espana rankings 2013
Spanish fiesta turns cold
Final Fatca regulations fail to include draft FFI agreement
Hotly anticipated final Fatca regulations leave industry disappointed and without an agreement for non-IGA FFIs
Best in Spain
Best in Spain
HKMA’s tight control over default data inputs reduces RWA significance
Hong Kong doesn't give local banks any latitude over the data inputs to their risk models, says one risk manager from the Special Administrative Region
UK banks reveal size of eurozone funding gaps
Banks reduce cross-border funding of peripheral eurozone assets in an attempt to mitigate redenomination risk - but funding gap still tops £10 billion for Spain
Fatca reciprocity agreement may cause delays, experts warn
US firms expected to push back on Fatca quid pro quo
Product providers in eurozone periphery face stiff challenge from bonds
Bonds beef up in southern Europe
Eurozone crisis is a buyers' strike, not an uprising
Eurozone crisis is a buyers’ strike
Fatca timeline in question with new Swiss-US deal
A new arrangement between the Swiss and US governments for Fatca compliance brings Fatca timelines into question, expert warns
Spanish banks allowed to ignore default risk for sovereign bonds
Banco de España is one of a number of European supervisors allowing its banks to ignore a Basel 2.5 requirement to model default risk on government bonds