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Canada opens its borders
A change in regulation allowing investors to hold more debt issued by non-Canadian entities has proved a fillip to the country's bond markets. Nadia Damouni looks at how the credit markets in Canada are evolving
A place on the grid
A growing number of banks have implemented grid technology for their risk management and derivatives trading businesses, allowing them to borrow spare capacity from dormant computers to process complex tasks in a fraction of the time. By Clive Davidson
US puts trust in Canadian finance
Canadian income trusts have been trading at all-time highs. Now that the Canadiangovernment is allowing bigger players onto the market, interest from US energyfirms in such vehicles is growing. By Catherine Lacoursiere
Canada tightens derivatives disclosure regulation
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has approved new rules designed to more adequately cover certain derivatives transactions.
Carbon across Europe
Pan-European emissions trading is a step closer after agreement of an EU directive. Atle Christiansen and Kristian Tangen of Point Carbon look at the consequences
Canadian regulator addresses derivatives-based insider trading
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) plans to introduce regulations that prevent sophisticated investors from using derivatives to circumvent current insider trading rules.
US pipelines follow the market
Todd Shipman of credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s finds that pipeline companies in the US will face more market risk than regulatory risk in the coming year
Canada's shifting credit scene
Canadian banks' attitude towards loan portfolio management is changing, and the impending Basel II Accord is accelerating the evolution of internal practices.
Canada’s shifting credit scene
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Between Kyoto and the caribou
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change is unlikely to have an effect on the burgeoning Canadian oil and gas sector, as Maria Kielmas discovers
Algorithmics strengthens European connection
TORONTO - Canadian risk management software company Algorithmics said in October that Denmark-based Danske Bank had licensed its Algo Collateral software system to manage their over-the-counter derivatives and repo-margining activities. An Algorithmics…
Basel bonds Canada
The largest Canadian banks have banded together to share default data, making it much more likely they will all qualify for the most advantageous regulatory capital approach under the Basel II capital Accord.
Basel II will be modified, says Canadian bank regulator
A survey of financial institutions’ views on the Basel II capital accord is expected to result in global banking regulators modifying some of the accord’s controversial aspects, according to a Canadian bank regulator involved in the survey.