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Investment banking and revenue pressures – ways to go
Setting: One of the purposes of any business is to make money. And banking is no exception to this cardinal objective of any business.
Normally the bank’s income portfolio comprises fund based income and fee based income.
Fund based income...
Key challenges in equity markets
Last week, one of my connections raised a question – what are the key challenges in the equity markets – in a forum we share with each other.
I was trying to provide an answer to the questions from what I have experienced so for...
Options Symbology Initiative – OSI
The OSI is a plan to overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to decrease the current limitations in today’s marketplace. This will be accomplished with the elimination of OPRA codes and fractional...
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...
The lessons one has to learn from markets these days
Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bros, AIG ? These were the big names one feared for in the markets and one cherished dreams to be associated with.
What indeed made them big and feared for? Their aggressiveness in the first place, positioning...
What does the future hold for investment banking?
Basel Committee of Bank for International Settlements in its document on “Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector” has identified the buildup of excessive on and off balance sheet leverage in the banking system as one of the underlying...
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...
Foreign Exchange: Relationships do matter
Relationships do matter in any market – leave alone foreign exchange market. Without such relationship transactions cannot take place. One can easily assign relationship as a key contributor to any increase or decrease in volumes handled by...
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