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Central Banks feel the heat

Central banks - particularly the Fed and the ECB - have been garnering unprecedented headline attention as investors and policy makers look to monetary stimulus to repair the damage to the global economy.

Like a needle in a haystack

When the news of JP Morgan’s multi-billion trading lost first leaked to the press, there was no shortage of unanswered questions. One of the most prominent centred on how regulators failed to catch these losses before they happened. However, from the regulatory perspective, catching trading blunders may not be as easy as it seems.

Winning the waiting game

When the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was created 11 years ago, it inherited a fairly developed project on a new accounting standard for insurance contracts that its predecessor had started in 1997. Insurance companies have been waiting since then for a single global accounting standard that fits their uniquely complex industry. Over the next 12 months they might finally get it. Accounting rule-makers at an international level are close to agreeing on a new reporting framework for insurers.

Is the current crisis in banking a crisis of leadership?

WANTED: Chief Executive Officer for Major Financial Institution

Is everything rosy in the garden?

Islam allows a man to take up to four wives. Yet when it comes to finance it prohibits him from earning riba (interest) on his capital, or engaging in gharar (speculation) with it.

Own goal

Holidaying in Greece during its election and following that up with a jaunt to Germany the week of the EU summit, I anticipated a highly political vacation spent discussing the eurozone with a front-row seat to the action in the two countries at the heart of the crisis (yes, journalists can have twisted ideas of fun).

Not quite sultans of swing

A majority of bankers, insurers and asset managers, as well as finance executives at non-financial companies, consider their organisations to be vulnerable to exceptional or sudden swings in volatility, according to a global survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Not all in the same boat

The financial crisis and the low/no return environment that has followed have taken their toll on the European asset management industry.

Defining “rogue”

In January 2008, Société Générale lost billions due to an alleged rogue trader named Jérôme Kerviel. During my time working at the Federal Reserve, I was part of a team sent to SocGen to investigate. (Very interesting times in retrospect.)

On the rocks

For the past two and a half years, European Union politicians have been caught in a catch 22. They seem to realise that the only way to save the euro is a more integrated, federal Europe, yet they face such opposition from their counterparts at home and their citizens, who fear a loss of economic sovereignty, that they cannot take the steps needed to make that necessity a reality.

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