Operational Risk

Economics should drive change

The decision to include foreign exchange swaps and forwards in the US over-the-counter derivatives reform bills run counter to research conducted by central bank-backed foreign exchange committees.

Banca Italease restructures after losses

MILAN – Banca Italease is to reorganise its risk management and control processes, following the announcement of a net loss of €686 million ($937 million) from its derivatives business.

All change for CLS management

LONDON and NEW YORK – CLS has announced a shake-up of its senior management and the forthcoming departure of chief executive Joseph De Feo.

AIB repays e 26m for overcharging

Customers to be repaid as regulator's report details AIB's "failures" DUBLIN – Allied Irish Banks (AIB) said it is repaying e 26 million ($32 million) it overcharged clients on three million FX deals, after a regulator slammed the bank in a report last…

Advanced IRB Basel II approach delayed

BASEL – The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has said that implementation of the advanced internal ratings-based approach (IRB) for credit risk and the advanced measurement approach (AMA) for operational risk will be delayed until the end of 2007…

NAB "collusive broker" speculation grows

MELBOURNE -- Cantor Fitzgerald last week refused to comment on growing speculation that it is the broker referred to in two reports into National Australia Bank’s A$360 million (US$280 million) forex options losses.

US sets trend for high bonuses

NEW YORK -- Global commercial banks are expected to award bumper bonuses in the next three months, following a pattern set by the US investment banks in December.

Bumper bonuses expected

LONDON -- Forex bonuses in the new year look set to outstrip 2002 payouts by up to 40%, traders and recruiters told FX Week .

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