Tag Archives: Liquidity
Central Counter Parties have a greater role to play
This blog makes an attempt to cover the role of central counterparties in four parts as under:
Part A– All about Central Counterparties
Part B– Best practices framework for CCPs
Part C – Some loud thinking on their future roles
Part D...
Leadship in uncertain times
Leading through uncertainty can be as complex as four deaf and blind persons trying to explain how an elephant would look like by merely touching different parts of a wild elephant. I am also, placed in a similar environment. Despite this serious...
Financial Market Harmonization Through Financial Technology Application
The global financial industry is in the midst of unprecedented and challenging times. Changes in market conditions drive a very different economic climate which beckons the need to accelerate market harmonization in emerging countries.
What...
OTC Derivatives’s Central Clearing – the focus
The introduction of legislation in the US and Europe to move settlement of some OTC derivative products through a Central Counter Party is the much talked about topic among leading bankers. The aim of this legislation is to bring in much needed...
Realignments in Investment Banking – Sell Side to Buy Side
Euro and Europe are going through challenging times.
Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has conceded for the first time that the state-backed lender could sell its investment banking division. Giving evidence to members...
Liquidity crises and technology responses
BIS Working Paper No.293 issued in November 2009 deals with the very interesting recent market happening – liquidity crisis. It also covers some ten propositions about liquidity crises.
While going through the same, I was looking for ways...
Unconventional thoughts
I sympathize with the present day inventors who claim great inventions. Their so called great inventions do not see the light of the day, after they announce over the media. I have some questions to ask.
– What went wrong with such inventors...
Trends in Risk and Margin
Any activity is associated with risk – a loss or gain. Financial risk management is not about avoiding risk. Rather, it is about understanding and communicating risk, so that risk can be taken more confidently and in a better way. (David Koenig,...
Of Banks and Bankers
Like other business, banks exist to acquire and use assets so that the value of their benefits exceeds their costs.
Their basic functions are – borrowing and lending, price determination, information aggregation and co-ordination, risk sharing...
Fundamentals and basic instincts drive FX Markets
Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland conducts triennial central bank survey on foreign exchange and derivatives market activity. The last such survey was conducted in April 2010. As per the findings of this survey, Global Foreign...
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