Financial crisis
Looking back: Lehman stirs credit and liquidity risk fears
Counterparty concerns could lead to increased use of clearing
Private equity provides buyers as insurers divest
Regulators set sights on PE firms as they snap up life businesses
OpRisk North America: Question business models, conference told
Banks must involve op risk in strategy decisions, says RBS' Spielmann
JP Morgan agrees record $13 billion settlement with DoJ
Settlement resolves civil claims over residential mortgage-backed securities
Risk management should be more than just a decoration
Despite massive investment in human capital and technical resources, risk managers failed to warn about the dangers of toxic assets and excessive leverage in the run-up to the global financial crisis. Their lack of authority is partly to blame, writes…
Risk USA: Standardised regulation will cause systemic risk, warns senior UBS risk controller
Regulators' efforts to prevent another crisis are having the opposite effect
High-touch hedge fund model could be salvation of industry
Up close and personal
Operational risk and the great financial crisis
Five years on, how much do we actually know about the op risk impact of the crisis?
UK government's threat to jail bankers may be empty
Too difficult to prosecute "reckless" bankers, lawyer warns
Higher capital not fines, says RBS Americas head of op risk
Higher capital requirements would incentivise banks to fix their problems more than fines, says Craig Spielmann at RBS
LSE: "Banking crises are unavoidable"
There is only one way to avoid a banking crisis, according to the co-director of a new London School of Economics research centre - and that's not to have a banking system. By Laurie Carver
Prosecutions of senior executives ‘unlikely’ after crisis
Managers could argue they faced difficult market conditions, industry expert says
OpRisk North America: Banking industry failed to tackle parallel runs, says regulator
Failure is a "black eye" for US financial sector, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond unit head
FSA director blasts BoE for failings in lead-up to financial crisis
Staff at the Bank of England were ill-equipped to deal with the crisis because they weren't working together, UK regulator tells convention
High-frequency trading improves market quality, study finds
Study disproves commonly held negative perceptions of HFT
Physics versus finance: Science strikes back
Science strikes back
Systemic risk methodology continues to worry insurers
Punitive reform
Out of the ashes: Portigon’s rise from WestLB
Out of the ashes