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RBS hires Hua for China role

Asia Risk staff — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:20:38 GMT

Qing Cheng Hua joins RBS China from JP Morgan Chase

SOR headache for Singapore banks as rates enter negative territory; MAS defends stance

Viren Vaghela — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:01:00 GMT

Profits at banks in Singapore issuing mortgages and loans based on SOR may be severely dented as the rate turned negative for the first time last week and is predicted to remain this way in the medium term

EMCF joins push for central clearing interoperability

Jessica Meek — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:25:04 GMT

All four Bats Europe and UBS MTF central counterparties now allow interoperability

Cat product to transfer oil spill risk to capital markets

Pauline McCallion — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Catastrophe product looks to capitalise on perceived investor appetite for oil spill risk

US 'shooting itself in foot' with derivatives margin rules - Issa

Matt Cameron — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:05:00 GMT

Congressman Darrell Issa attacks margin rules that threaten to isolate US banks. Foreign regulators say they have no plans to copy the proposals

Stoxx launches Global Rare Earth Index as high-tech demand for rare metals soars

Magda Ali — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:29:32 GMT

Stoxx’s rare earth index has risk-return ratio almost double that of the niche sector's benchmark index

Fatca could lead to systemic and reputational risk, says BBA

Jessica Meek — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:15:06 GMT

The BBA has submitted a letter to the US Treasury and IRS raising concerns that Fatca could cause systemic and reputational risk

Banks departs BNP Paribas

Joel Clark — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:53 GMT

BNPP's global head of forex and local market sales left the bank last week and is expected to leave the industry altogether after 24 years

Risk.net poll: regulatory changes are not making compensation more risk-based

Ellen Davis — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:08:00 GMT

Basel III's higher capital levels mean "bankers' pay will come down"

Photo gallery: Risk & Return Australia 2011

Asia Risk — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:36:00 GMT

Photographs from the Risk & Return Australia conference, held in Sydney on August 9

How the link between credit and economic growth has broken: Joseph Mason column

Joseph Mason — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:58:36 GMT

After the financial crisis of 2008–9, authorities needed to 'rehabilitate' corporate debtors to improve their creditworthiness. Why have they failed?

US oil and gas M&A at $39 billion

Jay Maroo — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:46:00 GMT

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the oil and gas sector registered a rise in average deal value, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report

US energy security risk is rising, index warns

Jay Maroo — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:41:00 GMT

The risks facing US energy security are increasing, according to an index published by the US Chamber of Commerce

EC argument for ‘bigger and better’ Iorp directive misguided - NAPF

Jenna Towler — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:11:19 GMT

Solvency II is the wrong starting point for new occupational pension directive, says James Walsh

LTCM had 'too much risk to be sustainable' says Myron Scholes

Laurie Carver — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:05:00 GMT

Collapse of Long Term Capital Management was due to excessive leverage and shows the perils of an over-reliance on classical portfolio theory, says one of its top quants

Spanish gas market growth slowing, says OIES

Jay Maroo — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:40:00 GMT

Although Spain's gas market has grown faster than all other major Euorpean countries, it now faces a number of challenges, says the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)

Risk head leaves Isda

Ellen Davis — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:49:34 GMT

David Murphy leaves Isda, to be replaced on an interim basis by Peter Sime, the association's recently appointed head of research

Bond stars scrap shorts on US treasuries as yields plunge

Dan Jones — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:02:00 GMT

Old Mutual and Legal & General managers say the time is right for a shift, while Artemis's Littlewood disagrees

Swiss franc strength attributed to 'absolutely no liquidity'

Miriam Siers — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:10:32 GMT

Dramatically reduced liquidity in August, coupled with sovereign debt concerns in the eurozone, have combined to strengthen the Swiss franc, say strategists

Banks turn to dynamic algorithm-based structures to exploit interest rate cycles

Magda Ali — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:56:48 GMT

Demand for fixed-income dynamic interest rate strategies that combine short-term algorithms and long-term positions on interest rate futures is slowly returning

Pension scheme risk transfer deals up 400% on past quarter

Jenna Towler — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:03:54 GMT

Several longevity swap transactions are in the pipeline despite market turmoil, says Hymans Robertson's Patrick Bloomfield

Risk awards 2012: now open for submissions

Risk magazine staff — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:48:00 GMT

Twenty-seven categories are up for grabs, including new awards for OTC clearing service of the year and OTC trading platform of the year

Promontory hires Newman and Gould to lead greater China office

Asia Risk staff — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:35:00 GMT

Frank Newman, former US Treasury deputy secretary, and Ronald Gould, ex-UK FSA senior adviser, join the consultancy's China operations

New proposals could take the sting out of Sefs, say industry experts

Miriam Siers, Joel Clark — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:49:00 GMT

The appearance of the Sef Clarification Act last month, coupled with a changing mood in Washington, DC, has given rise to a more positive outlook among e-commerce experts

CME, Ice to launch repositories rivalling the DTCC

Ramya Jaidev — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:05:00 GMT

Banks have picked the DTCC to build a series of new derivatives repositories, but overlooked rivals CME and Ice vow to fight on