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Government-sponsored - Enterprises - Call of duty - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been given the task of keeping the mortgage-backed securities market in business, with the help...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 5, pp. 5-7
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008261294
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Credit derivatives - With a bang - Isda's big bang protocol has standardised the credit default swap market, giving buy-side credit firms a voice but also stripping some flexibilit...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 6, pp. 33-35
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008265108
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Regulation - The Bair necessities - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman Sheila Bair has argued that systemically important financial institutions should hold more capita...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 7, pp. 65-67
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008278345
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Credit derivatives - The bespoke conundrum - The dealer community has pushed towards standardisation of CDS contracts, enabling them to meet a regulatory goal of ensuring a large c...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 7, pp. 52-54
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008278350
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Corporates - Forex realignment - Many company treasury departments were slow to respond to rising volatility in the foreign exchange market, along with a shift in the direction of...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 7, pp. 42-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008278353
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Fund derivatives - Power to the investors - Bruised investors are finally calling the shots the hedge fund market as they seek to reallocate capital. With many now demanding greate...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 4, pp. 34-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008242151
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Securitisation - The big clean-up - The US Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program aims to cleanse balance sheets of toxic assets and revive financial markets. But questions r...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 5, pp. 38-40
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008257118
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Regulation - New rules of the game - The US Treasury revealed its intention in March to force all standard over-the-counter derivatives contracts to be cleared through central coun...
Madigan, Peter; Haws, Donna - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 5, pp. 25-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008257121
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Variable annuities - Volatility knocks - The turbulence in global equity markets has caused sizeable losses for insurance companies that have delta-hedged variable annuity exposure...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 11, pp. 47-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008148080
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Regulation - Rethinking CDSs - Credit default swaps (CDSs) have been fingered as a main culprit in the ongoing financial crisis. Regulation of the CDS market in the US now looks li...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 11, pp. 34-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008148084