Opinion/Risk management
Editor's Letter
Comment
Op Risk + Technology
A bit of an update from me on what's happening at OpRisk & Compliance this month.
Home-host conflict
Despite structural attempts at supervisory co-ordination, international banking groups need to foster bilateral understanding with their subsidiaries' host regulators, argues David Rowe
Understanding LDI
Selling LDI 'products' can be misleading, warns Peter Knez. Managing liabilities and assets is much more complicated than these 'solutions' suggest
Back to basics
We take you back to the credit basics to review everything you thought you already knew but were too afraid to ask... Rob Pomphrett, head of structured product syndicate at RBC Capital Markets in London, explains how CDOs work
Bonds and... bondage
When I lived in New York City – for most of my 20s – I remember a Thai dinner with a university friend who moaned about the demise of her most recent relationship. Her complaint, oddly enough, was not that her boyfriend had cheated on her. She was…
Dangerous perfection
Risk Analysis
Editor's Letter
Comment
Street Cred - Judgement day
Our new US column, StreetCred, suggests there may soon be a day of reckoning for the structured credit market
Time to get cracking on Mifid
I always find the purple and green backlighting that the Financial Services Authority uses on the stage sets at its events to be a bit disconcerting – something about the colour combination makes my eye ache.
Clarifying disclosure
Hedge fund perspective
Editor's letter
It's that time of year again - the Energy Risk awards! As well as honouring the deserving winners, our awards write-ups offer a selection of case studies which chart the latest developments, innovative thinking and strategies in this dynamic sector.
Unwanted orphans
In The City
China's changing face
Viewpoint
Flag-waving (not wavering)
As an American living in London, I've been acutely aware of the differences a small body of water can make to people's perceptions on certain issues.
Gauging performance
Hedge fund perspective
The risk of risk/return
patrick de gentile williams
Solvency II: The way forward
Comment