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RiskNews Update - http://www.risknews.net/
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RiskNews Update ) week ending 30/03/2001
http://www.risknews.net
News for derivatives and risk management professionals
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Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to RiskNews Update!

Top news this week included early findings by credit ratings agency
Standard & Poor,s that internationally active banks may find it is cheaper
to use the standardised risk management approach to capital management
rather than the internal ratings based (IRB) system. Early findings that
IRB, as laid out in the Basel Committee's new capital Accord proposals,
may cost banks more in terms of capital appears contrary to the +spirit,
of the de facto international banking regulator,s proposals. Next week,
RiskNews will print exclusive coverage of the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association,s (Isda,s) response to Basel as part of our
extensive coverage of Isda,s 16th Annual General Meeting in Washington.

With consolidation seeming imminent for the plethora of electronic trading
platform providers, electronic derivatives trading platform Blackbird,s
chief executive Andy Baxter admitted having difficulties encouraging
dealers to move away from phone broking. In a separate development, JP
Morgan Chase selected multi-bank FX trading portal Atriax as its
electronic portal ) a move seen by industry observers as a blow to rival
portal FXall, which was strongly backed by the pre-merger JP Morgan.

Meanwhile, Citigroup,s top FX salesman Martin Dyer pans to take +time-out,
from his post after 20 years, clearing the way for Lars Olesen to be
appointed global FX sales manager of Citibank Foreign Exchange in London.

Christopher Jeffery
Editor, RiskNews

Tel: 44 (0)20 7484 9880
E-mail:cjeffery@riskwaters.com

PS: RiskNews will send out an additional +special bulletin, next week to
alert subscribers to our coverage of Isda 16th Annual General Meeting in
Washington. We hope you enjoy this additional service.

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RiskNews Update - 30/03/01

Headlines/Technology and Exchanges/People/Events

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Headlines ) 30/03/2001
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30 March - The Bank for International Settlements plans to establish an
Americas representative office in Mexico City by the end of this year

30 March - Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of
Dresdner Bank that is currently in takeover talks with German insurer
Allianz, has opened an office in Taiwan to extend its reach in Asia
brokerage business

29 March - Dominant US secondary mortgage-market institutions Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac have issued their first quarterly credit risk sensitivity
reports, following last year's pledge to improve information disclosure

29 March - Internationally active banks may find it is cheaper to use the
standardised risk management approach to capital management as laid out in
the Basel Committee's new capital Accord proposals than to develop their
own sophisticated internal ratings based systems

27 March - ING Barings' equity derivatives service is open for "business
as normal" following the loss of six of its team to German rival Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Germany's Dresdner
Bank, according to an ING Barings spokesperson

26 March - The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
and US electronic stock market Nasdaq are to form a joint venture to trade
single-stock futures

26 March - JP Morgan Chase has selected multi-bank FX trading portal
Atriax as its electronic portal, in a move described by industry observers
as a blow to rival portal FXall, which was strongly backed by the
pre-merger JP Morgan

To read more now, click http://www.risknews.net

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Technology and Exchanges ) 30/03/2001
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30 March - Trading on the international derivatives exchange Eurex can now
take place via a number of access methods including the internet, the
Swiss-German exchange has unveiled

30 March - Singapore Exchange (SGX) has launched an open interface
technology called SGXAccess, which enables SGX Securities Trading member
firms to trade in Singapore's securities market outside the country, using
their own trading terminals

28 March - Ubitrade plans to link up with Fermat, the risk management
solution vendor, to help distribute and support its product range in
several European countries and Israel

28 March - Singapore Exchange IT Solutions, DBS Securities and OCBC
Securities have completed an agreement to form a joint venture company
that will provide outsourcing services to the securities industry

27 March - Electronic derivatives trading platform Blackbird has admitted
to having difficulties encouraging dealers to move away from phone broking

27 March - Icor Brokerage has joined the race for a share of the online
forex options broking market. The firm said it would launch an e-broking
system for forex options in the second quarter of the year

27 March - Electronic trading systems software provider patsystems has
formed a partnership with Pronet Analytics, the financial application
service provider

26 March - British financial group Halifax has selected SunGard's BancWare
asset and liability management system to manage group-wide interest rate
risk

26 March - New York-based derivatives service provider Cygnifi has
completed a collateral consulting project for the New York branch of
Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank

26 March - New York-based software provider Fame has formed an alliance
with California's Financial Engineering Associates to create a new product
combining quantitative risk analytics with market data

To read more now, click http://www.risknews.net

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People ) 30/03/2001
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30 March - International rating agency Fitch has appointed former Mellon
and GE Capital employee Martin Donner as senior director of its loans
products group

29 March - Bear Stearns International has hired Emmanuel Pezier from HSBC,
to head its equity-linked origination and execution of convertible and
exchangeable bonds with institutional clients

29 March - Citigroup has appointed Lars Olesen as global FX sales manager
of Citibank Foreign Exchange in London. He will succeed Martin Dyer, who
is planning to take time-out to consider his options with the bank after a
Citibank career spanning more than 20 years in foreign exchange sales

29 March - Otto N,geli, deputy chief executive officer of Eurex, has left
the international derivatives exchange

28 March - Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has hired Mehraj Mattoo as a
director in the alternative investments section of its equities group -
the fourth appointment of former BNP Paribas staff to the division in the
past three months

26 March - Abbey National, the UK mortgage bank currently the subject of a
takeover by Lloyds TSB, has appointed Steven Oon as director of market
risks at its Treasury Services unit

26 March - Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the UK's
Barclays Bank, has significantly increased its energy products team at the
New York Mercantile Exchange

26 March - David Puth, managing director and head of sales, trading and
research for JP Morgan Chase's rate markets business in North America, has
been named the new chairman of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's
Foreign Exchange Committee

To read more now, click http://www.risknews.net

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Events - 30/03/2001
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