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Setting: One of the purposes of any business is to make money. And banking is no exception to this cardinal

Key challenges in equity markets

Last week, one of my connections raised a question – what are the key challenges in the equity markets –

The OSI is a plan to overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to decrease the current limitations

This post makes an attempt to cover the role of central counter-parties and processing of OTC derivatives in four parts as under:

Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bros, AIG ? These were the big names one feared for in the markets and

Basel Committee of Bank for International Settlements in its document on “Strengthening the resilience of the banking sector” has identified

Collateral management is no more a back office function. Thanks to the recent crises in financial markets, it has graduated

Clarification: For the purpose of this discussion, SDRs are not Special Drawing Rights. They are Swap Data Repositories. Swap Data

Introduction Any activity is associated with risk – a loss or gain. Financial risk management is not about avoiding risk.

Relationships do matter in any market – leave alone foreign exchange market. Without such relationship transactions cannot take place. One