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Foreword:
Staying in touch with the ever changing
world of financial regulations, new technologies and opportunities
News:
A round
up of what's been
happening in the market
place
Meeting
Point:
THE TRUTH ABOUT CUSTODIAN FEES
Few executives in commerce today
expect that their market will remain stable in the medium
term and therefore each industry prepares strategic plans
THE GROWTH
OF ISLAMIC SAVINGS, EDUCATION AND RETIREMENT PLANS
A dramatic rise in the demand for
Takaful insurance is being predicted by market observers
INTEGRATION OF CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT
- WHERE ARE WE?
It has been reported that the European
Commission has mounted a fact-finding mission into whether
so called “vertical silos” where trades are made,
cleared and settled through the same organisation is anticompetitive
Country Profile:
WALKING THROUGH CHINESE WALLS
When the Chinese State Administration
of Foreign Exchange (Safe) released a circular dealing with
foreign exchange controls at the beginning of this year,
it set off a number of alarm bells
EMERGING IFCs
A Look at Global Developing Financial
Centres
Risk Analysis:
DISASTER RECOVERY SYSTEMS
What’s the worst that could
happen? All businesses should ask themselves this question,
because if it does happen, the business may cease to exists
THE CHANGING
FACE OF RISK MANAGEMENT
During the last decade, risk management
in financial institutions has dramatically changed its shape
MORTGAGE LENDING RISK ANALYSIS
Following the large and sustained
increases in UK house prices in recent years, risk analysis
for both borrowers and lenders has become an ever more crucial
issue
IT Focus:
CAN YOU
BANK ON YOUR SECURITY SYSTEM?
Upgrading security systems to combat
terrorism needs a different mind-set and skills
PHISHING
SCAMS - WHAT CAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DO?
Phishing is a form of online identity
theft that uses spoofed emails designed to lure recipients
to fraudulent websites
IMPORTANT CURRENT THREATS TO INFORMATION
SECURITY
Recent financial scandals have created
a heightened awareness of internal controls
Industry
Insight:
A YARDSTICK
FOR PORTFOLIO FUNDS ACROSS FUNDS AND ASSET CLASSES
With the ever-growing complexities
of financial products comes a new problem: how to analyse
risk and performance
FUNDS OF
HEDGE FUNDS: NEW BUSINESS MODELS
As the $750 billion-plus hedge fund
industry continues to expand, many investors are turning
to funds of hedge funds
SIX SIGMA PROTOCOL ARTICLE
“In my experience in consulting
for Six Sigma, I have found the cultural differences existing
between the various regions of the world has a big impact
on the strategy for deployment.”
HEDGE FUNDS:
A BOOMING MARKET INTERVIEW
Professor Harry Kat, of Cass Business
School, talks to (Rafik Patel) Financial Bridges about the
growth in the hedge fund industry
PORTFOLIO
FINANCING: THE ICEBERG EFFECT
Most hedge funds would short or sell
the stock of a company if they found out that its CFO did
not fully understand its cost of capital, balance sheet
and treasury functions
COVERED
BONDS
Over the last few years, covered
bonds have become one of Europe’s most dynamic segments
of debt capital markets. As a result, 2005 could see the
biggest volume of gross issuance of covered bonds since
the market’s previous record of more than €120
billion set in 1999
CUSTODY AT THE CROSSROADS
As the number of global custodians
dwindles the custody business stands at the crossroads in
more ways than one
WSTSA Portfolio:
MANAGING
THE E-NABLED FINANCIAL ENTERPRISE
Companies in the financial services
sector face a number of major technical and business challenges
THE EVOLUTION
OF VOICE TRADING TO IP
Technology in the financial industry
is once again on the cusp of evolution as Internet Protocol
(IP) technology is set to dominate
Legal
and Regulatory Issues in the IFCs:
INSURANCE RELATED TAX PLANNING
Simple offshore structures have ceased
to be effective in reducing taxes for persons resident in
onshore and high tax nations
IFSB TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL ISLAMIC
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
The issue of Islamic countries’
roles in international politics and society has come under
increasing scrutiny in recent years
TAXATION
INSURANCE TAX CERTAINTY WITHOUT USING AVOIDANCE TECHNIQUES
It was said by an economist that
“insurance cannot prevent a storm, but it is nice to
have insurance in a storm.”
Market
Views:
UCITS -
1985 TO 2005: 20 YEARS OF A SINGLE MARKET IN INVESTMENT
FUNDS
It has now been 20 years since European
nations first introduced the concept of UCITS
30 YEARS
OF FESE
Now celebrating 30 years of operation,
the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) is
finding its role becoming ever more crucial
THE REPO
ROAD TO BASLE 2
The value of European repurchase
agreements (repo) has increased dramatically in recent years,
averaging 19 per cent growth per year to reach more than
€4.5 billion last year
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