Corporate loans
Basel II implementation in Vietnam by 2015 remains challenging
While the Vietnam regulator is consulting on setting up an asset management company to take on NPLs to help clean up domestic banks' balance sheets, slow progress is being made towards Basel II
Hedge fund enables insurers to capitalise on bank deleveraging
Tenax Capital fund will buy bank loans and provide debt capital to corporates
JP Morgan loss was bungled attempt to cut Basel III RWAs, says Dimon
Loss-making unit's RWAs would have tripled under Basel III, JP Morgan chief executive says - but attempting to cut capital burden made its hedges more complex
US farm lenders fear clearing will trip leverage ratio
Posted collateral cannot be used to offset liabilities when calculating farm credit banks' leverage ratio
Dealers pitch loan format for swaps as CVA dodge
Banks are offering to replicate the economics of OTC swaps in loan format - avoiding new capital and clearing rules
Deposit flight threatens banks' eurozone ALM efforts
Attempts to match assets and liabilities on a country-by-country basis could be threatened if Greece exits eurozone, lenders fear
Basel III takes a bite out of aircraft and shipping finance
On the scrapheap
Risk Annual Summit: Bank deleveraging 'might not be cyclical'
Aircraft, shipping and project finance all set to lose out as banks seek to constrain capital consumption, panellists warn
CPM functions go back to basics
Old-school value