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Margin - Custody battle - Following the losses suffered in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September, hedge funds are increasingly looking to place initial margin...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 8, pp. 48-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008300194
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Securitisation - PPIP blip - Mortgage-backed securities purchases will begin in August under the US Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program. But analysts say holders of the pa...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 8, pp. 30-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008300200
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The chemistry of compensation - Regulators across the world are clamping down on executive compensation in a bid to align employee remuneration with sound risk management principle...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 9, pp. 20-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008314664
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Interest rates - Fixed returns? Banks have reported huge profits this year in fixed income, with swaps desks benefiting from flows off the back of sovereign and corporate debt issu...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 22 (2009) 10, pp. 31-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008325438
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Prime brokers - Margin of error - Lawsuits are surfacing in the US between hedge funds and prime brokerages over disputed margin calls on structured credit trades. Prime brokers ha...
Madigan, Peter - In: Risk : managing risk in the world's financial markets 21 (2008) 5, pp. 33-38
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008261288
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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