Interest rates
Bank of England’s Tucker asks to appear before Libor inquiry
BoE deputy governor asks to appear “as soon as possible” following calls for the Bank to explain Diamond conversation
JP Morgan combines FX and rates management
Troy Rohrbaugh is to relocate to New York to head up rates and FX, while Chris Willcox moves to asset management
JVB shows its rates traits
The low-rates navigator
Certificates of deposit becoming 'harder than ever to structure'
Low interest rates and equity market volatility are making it extremely difficult to structure certificates of deposit with attractive terms
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The new normal: structurers learn to live with low interest rates
The low rates challenge
American VA providers de-risk to combat market volatility
Staying steady
Investors in Asia-Pacific look to rates-based hybrids for yield
Low interest rates mean market participants expect the trend for hybrid structures to continue this year, boosted by demand for yield pick-up and diversification
Deutsche Bank rolls out series of MSCI and Australian interest rate ETFs in Hong Kong
Deutsche Bank’s latest exchange-traded fund launch on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange includes ETFs tapping into local equities from Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia as well as Australian interest rates
Derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk awards 2012
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Bank
Risk awards 2012
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Royal Bank of Scotland
Risk awards 2012
Hedge fund of the year: Brevan Howard Asset Management
Risk awards 2012
Sovereign risk poses greatest threat to European insurers
Sovereign risk poses greatest threat to Euro insurers
Profile: Fortinbras Asset Management
Fitting form to function
Eurozone debt writedown could cost insurers €143bn
Prolonged low interest rates could threaten insurers’ solvency, Swiss Re warns
Interest rates house of the year
Interest rates house of the year
Trade of the month: reverse convertibles
Trade of the month: reverse convertibles
Trichet bows out with new bond purchase scheme
Jean-Claude Trichet unveils a new covered bond purchase scheme; ECB governing council also agreed to hold interest rates and support Jörg Asmussen for governing council post
BoE injects £75 billion to save stalling economy
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee votes for further round of quantitative easing; increases size of asset purchase programme to £275 billion
Interest Rates House of the Year
Interest Rates House of the Year
Basel III liquidity rules shaking up the corporate deposit market
Deposit(ive) thinking
Banks turn to dynamic algorithm-based structures to exploit interest rate cycles
Demand for fixed-income dynamic interest rate strategies that combine short-term algorithms and long-term positions on interest rate futures is slowly returning
Barroso calls on eurozone to speed up completion of EFSF legislation
EC president calls for urgent action on bailout mechanism, but analyst says it could be months before the EFSF is legally allowed to purchase government bonds on the secondary market