Operational risk

CGE Power falls as banks demand cash

CGE Power, the bank consortium formed to acquire distressed UK power assets, has withdrawn offers totalling around £3 billion on 12 plants and ceased trading after proposals to acquire two key power plants were rejected by lenders, according to a…

Covenants: crisis of confidence

Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…

Covenants: crisis of confidence

Financial covenants that rely too heavily on ratios are just not sophisticated enough to predict the likelihood of default, argues Sarah Woo. Loan originators must learn a trick or two from their colleagues in portfolio management and develop…

AIG to form cross-border op risk sub-group

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Accord Implementation Group (AIG) will shortly form a sub-group to focus on cross-border op risk issues, according to several regulatory sources. Regulators and the industry are pressing for a greater role in…

Tweaks to op risk in Basel II in pipeline

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced in mid-May that it would delay the implementation of the advanced measurement approach (AMA) for op risk, as well as the advanced internal ratings-based approach for credit risk, until the end of 2007…

No More Fake IDs

As the economy recovers, financial firms are looking for technical advantages that increase top-line revenues as well as manage costs.

Sarbanes-Oxley: The costly road to compliance

Some companies are looking to get a better return on their investment in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance by making it part of a larger exercise that looks at firm-wide processes and controls, and not just those surrounding financial reporting, writes Clive…

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