Bank & Financial

Magazine articles on banks, brokerages, and credit card companies.

Old Articles: <Older 12581-12590 Newer>

Wall Street & Technology June 9, 2009 Melanie Rodier	20 of the Top Chinese Fund Management Companies The Chinese mutual fund industry is currently 1/10th of the size of the U.S. industry, but is growing fast. Here are 20 of the top Chinese fund management companies, which also include joint ventures with some big Western banks.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	Still Stressed Over Bank Stress Tests Although investors greeted the results of the government's banking stress tests with cheers, were the tests strict enough to help prevent another financial meltdown?
Finance & Development June 2009 John Lipsky	Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture
Finance & Development June 2009 Giovanni Dell'Ariccia	Asset Price Booms: How Can They Best Be Managed? Not all booms are alike -- making the right call on which policies to deploy depends on how assets are held and who is exposed to a possible bust
Finance & Development June 2009	The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s.
Finance & Development June 2009 Randall Dodd	Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses
Finance & Development June 2009 Kamil et al.	A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big.
Finance & Development June 2009 Eyzaguirre et al.	Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear.
Finance & Development June 2009 S. Raihan Zamil	Viewpoint: Regulatory Philosophy Matters Risk-based supervision sought to spur innovation and reward good behavior but helped bring about the global financial crisis.
Wall Street & Technology May 11, 2009 Ivy Schmerken	Wall Street Opens Doors to Open Source Technologies The recession, combined with access to a worldwide community of developers, is driving capital markets firms to adopt open source technologies in increasing numbers.
<Older 12581-12590 Newer> Return to current articles.