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Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Tim Clark |
The Quiet Market Explosion While most of the industry has been focusing on exotic investment products and emerging markets, the securities lending market has boomed into a $16 trillion business. But with rapid growth comes substantial risk. |
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2008 Penny Crosman |
Credit Suisse, Goldman and Major Broker-Dealers Are Building a Margin Messaging System Fifteen of the 16 major broker/dealers have been quietly working to build an automated framework for collateral. The group plans to roll out a messaging system for margin calls early next year. |
Wall Street & Technology April 22, 2008 Ivy Schmerken |
Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices. |
FDIC FYI March 26, 2003 |
Derivatives Risk in Commercial Banking Derivatives serve an essential role in the U.S. and world economies but also present certain risks to the deposit insurance funds. This article explains what these risks are and describes how they are managed within commercial banking. |
CFO October 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
Wall Street & Technology January 25, 2010 Penny Crosman |
10 Trends That Are Reshaping the Wall Street Back Office Here are 10 developments that are reshaping Wall Street's operations departments and the technology they use. |
U.S. Banker August 2001 John Hackett |
Credit Derivatives Hit a Snag After years of booming growth, the market in these hedging tools dropped in the first quarter, but the consensus is that they're too good to keep down. Includes statistics on the biggest bank participants. |
Wall Street & Technology February 13, 2007 Ivy Schmerken |
Asset Managers Push Custodians to Offer Independent Pricing Services for OTC Derivatives The exponential growth of OTC derivatives is forcing custodians to provide independent valuation services to their institutional clients. |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Wall Street and the Wild Euros JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks on the European debt crisis. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 |
Prelude to a Panic September 2008 will live in infamy as the month when the U.S. financial system ground to a halt. But for Goldman Sachs and other institutions, the real panic took place throughout 2007. Here is what happened behind the scenes at Goldman. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
U.S. Banker December 2008 John Schneider |
Transparency and Regulation are Coming to the CDS Market Currently, the financial markets do not have a mechanism to evaluate the overall exposure to CDS contracts. All that is going to change soon. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Weapons of Financial Mass Destruction Are Still Primed Six years after Warren Buffet called derivatives "weapons of financial mass destruction" those weapons are still active, and their stockpiles are more heavily concentrated than before. |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed? |
OCC Bulletin April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia |
After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system. |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Morgan Housel |
You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life. |
OCC Bulletin February 23, 2006 |
Risk-Based Capital -- Securities Borrowing Transactions: Final Rule This bulletin transmits a final rule on the risk-based capital treatment of securities borrowing transactions in which the borrower of the security posts cash collateral. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Subprime Truths and Consequences The continuing credit crunch spotlights the perils of leverage. How should your financial advisory clients respond? |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Richard Gibbons |
Stocks That Will Benefit From This Disaster The companies that helped cause the current crisis may end up being the biggest beneficiaries. |
CFO September 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
Repos Come Under Fire Repos, or repurchase agreements, are a key source of short-term financing for Wall Street banks and other financial institutions, and they are under scrutiny once again for being fraught with risk. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
The Blame Game: Goldman vs. AIG Who was really at fault? |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Christopher Barker |
Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
This Is Poison for Our Economy There's a lot of talk of recovery, but has our financial system really seen the light? |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel |
The Risky Business of Securities Lending Is your mutual fund betting with your money? |
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Health Insurers Are Not AIG Health insurers get hammered this week. |
Wall Street & Technology March 21, 2006 Tim Lind |
Counterparty Data Challenge Knowing the total relationship a financial institution has with its customer and its counterparty is key -- but only if the data is trustworthy. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Warren Buffett Is Wrong on This One All derivatives should be regulated -- even Buffett's. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Will Regulation Stifle Innovation? Here is the fifth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 David Grau |
Taking Your Value to the Bank You found the perfect buyer for your financial services practice, got your price and you're retiring. How do you make sure the buyer pays as promised? |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 William Trent |
What Can the Fed Do? The Federal Reserve did not "bail out" Bear Stearns. Read on to learn more about what the Fed can, and cannot, do. |
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 |
Cross-Asset STP Sophis introduced a full straight-through-processing module for securities lending and repo for its RISQUE platform. |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Lewis Braham |
What's Inside Pimco? Pimco Total Return Fund is the world's biggest mutual fund. What's in its portfolio? |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Emil Lee |
Swaps Sink AIG AIG's stock gets pounded as the company ups its loss estimates. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The Coming Financial Meltdown With 43 Congressional members hammering out a final version of the financial-reform bill, one of the biggest contentions remains what to do about the mind-boggling, vast, and opaque derivatives market owned by the nation's too-big-to-fail megabanks. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
How Lehman Played Musical Chairs With Its Loans Lehman Brothers sheds light on new Fed lending facilities. Will it work? |
OCC Bulletin April 9, 2002 |
Risk-Based Capital A final rule permits banks to reduce the risk weight on certain claims against qualifying securities firms from 100 percent to 20 percent... |
OCC Bulletin December 8, 2000 |
Risk-Based Capital -- Securities Borrowing Transactions This bulletin transmits an interim rule and a request for comment on the risk-based capital treatment of securities borrowing transactions in which the borrower of the security posts cash collateral... |
The Motley Fool April 15, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: Who Profited From Lehman's Fall Despite the opposition of exchange operator CME Group, a judge allowed the release of previously unpublished parts of the report by Lehman's bankruptcy examiner. Here, the bankruptcy examiner tells all. |
Wall Street & Technology September 18, 2006 Cory Levine |
Stephen Andress Hired by Northern Trust In the interest of expanding its presence in the derivatives space, Northern Trust Corp. has hired Stephen Andress to fill the newly created position of global head of derivatives operations. |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
AIG: We Like Our Toxic Waste An outsider's take on AIG's risk. |
Registered Rep. September 16, 2008 |
AIG Needs Cash; Who Will Buy Its B/Ds? The $20 billion loan AIG was allowed to borrow against itself yesterday didn't have much of an impact after S&P, Moody's and Fitch cuts its credit ratings. |
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2008 Greg MacSweeney |
Don't Leave Home Without ... Bank Status? The Federal Reserve's ill-conceived decision to provide bank's with anonymity makes the entire process less transparent and only further contributes to the industry's poor reputation and lack of investor confidence. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Tim Beyers |
When Margin Makes Sense Margin can be an incredibly dangerous way to enhance stock market returns, especially if your specialty is volatile fast growers. But as a backup fund for emergencies, margin can be not only appealing but also relatively safe. |
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 John Tozzi |
In Michigan, One Answer to the Jobs Crisis By backing loans to small manufacturers, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. is helping companies diversify -- if they add workers. |
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
This Will Cause the Next Financial Crisis Pension funds are getting desperate, turning to risky strategies to make minimal cash. |