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Role of central counterparties and processing of OTC derivatives
This post makes an attempt to cover the role of central counter-parties and processing of OTC derivatives in four parts as under:
Part I – All about Central Counterparties
Part II – Best practices framework for CCPs
Part III – Some loud...
Security Lending Business
Concept of Security lending
Security is an asset or third party commitment accepted by the security taker to secure an obligation of the security provider. In theory, cash is the perfect security. The assets traditionally used as security, such...
The business of prime broking – an overview of opportunities
To understand better the business of prime broking, there is a felt need to understand the business of hedge funds first, as prime brokers are in their business only because of these hedge funds!
According to Goldman Sachs & Co, the term...
Enhance the Quality of Financial Regulation – the Need of the Hour.
The purpose of any regulation is for solving problems that stakeholder or business alone cannot solve, as well as for making trade-offs among different objectives.
Year 2008 will definitely go down in the history as the year of the greatest...
Country Risk is an Evolving and Dynamic Risk
Country risk analysis, as it is practiced is far from perfect. For example, the country risk of the United States fails to properly take into account the country’s aging population and strained Social Security system — as well as its huge...
Best Practices Frame Work for Credit Rating Agencies
Regulating the credit rating agencies is the talk of the town nowadays.
Credit rating agencies provide independent reports on the credit worthiness of a range of institutions, governments, and public bodies, international and domestic active...
ABCD of Asset Management
Asset management is all about managing money through investment, budgeting, banking and taxes. In an ideal set up, the money is never allowed to sit idle and is made to work in the best possible manner by lending and investing in many different...
Collateral management – Latest Developments
Collateral management is no more a back office function.
Thanks to the recent crises in financial markets, it has graduated itself to a core function status driving the very front office function.
Gone are the days of cost centre approach to...
SDRs – Emerging Intermediaries in US Financial Markets
Clarification: For the purpose of this discussion, SDRs are not Special Drawing Rights. They are Swap Data Repositories.
Swap Data Repository, a Financial Markets Intermediary, is an entity that will be expected to maintain a centralized electronic...
Cool Times in risk management?
Introduction 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...
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