Indexes
Urgently seeking capital
Balance sheet CLOs
Survival of the fittest
Profile
One tranche at a time
Synthetic CDOs
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
Algorithmic trading’s next frontier
Equity options
Turning up the heat
Japanese banks
In need of reassurance
The knock-on effects of the crisis in equities has hit the insurance sector particularly hard – so much so that UK regulatory body the FSA has been forced to step in and allow certain insurers to breach mimimum solvency ratios.
Japan's banks under pressure as Nikkei hits fresh 20-year lows
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index fell to fresh 20-year lows today, sparking further concerns that the capital adequacy ratios of the country’s banks may come under acute pressure in the approach to the March fiscal year-end.
Investors get real
Commodities
In need of reassurance
Insurance sector
The Price May Not Be Right!
Significant events that occur after a market has closed—but before the fund is valued—may lead to consumers buying a fund at an incorrect price due to stale pricing.
Software survey 2003
Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.
Equity derivatives house of the year – UBS Warburg
The Risk Awards 2003
Derivatives exchange of the year – Eurex
The Risk Awards 2003
Software survey 2003
Survey
The race for a suitable index
Forex benchmarking
Considering the alternatives
Profile
Where’s the silver lining?
Comment
A question of priorities
Japan's banks are aware of the need to prepare for Basel II, but it is just one of a number of urgent issues that need to be resolved in the Japanese banking sector.
US investors complacent about currency risk, says Merrill
A decade of US asset and currency outperformance has engendered complacency among US-based equity investors, according to Merrill Lynch’s foreign exchange strategy group.
Reacting to spreads
Credit derivatives
A question of priorities
Basel Accord
Looking for alternatives
Hedge funds
An agency apart
The Financial Services Agency has more than its share of critics, thanks to controversial regulations and its handling of the banking crisis. A senior official at the agency talks about what lies ahead.