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Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...ence fraud and deceit and as Frank Partnoy, a professor at the San Diego School of Law and a former derivatives trader told Bloomberg , we need to work out a way of weaning investors and regulators o...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...mothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we should be preparing f...
Interview with Warren McGregor, IASB board member
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...d do something about it. The one they are talking about at the moment is technical area is embedded derivatives, embedded in synthetic CDOs. In respect of a very limited circumstance, US GAAP does not...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
... in the same boat." As always, he warns that the banking sector's dependence and usage of derivatives is dangerous. "Receivables and payables by the billions become concentrated in the ...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...hyster but kept shtum. "Leon Gross, the former managing director in charge of worldwide equity derivatives research for Citigroup, told friends and colleagues on Wall Street in 2005 that he thoug...
Obama's options
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...nt will move quickly to tighten financial regulations. We can expect stricter rules particularly on derivatives, like credit default swaps. There will be more regulation in these areas. But for now, ...
The meltdown's rogue gallery
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...op as a result of his low interest rates, who failed to regulate mortgage lending, who defended the derivatives business which mushroomed under his regime and who backed sub-prime lending and urged ho...
PCAOB to auditors: turn up the heat
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
...ctually coming clean. And fair value will shape up as a critical issue, particularly in relation to derivatives. PCAOB chairman Mark Olson, according to this report , has warned auditors they will n...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...the Depression-era laws barring banks from becoming investors. He also opposed attempts to regulate derivatives. What we are now seeing is part of his legacy....
Tim Geithner: crisis manager
in Sox First, on November 22, 2008
...ed years ago that trouble was ahead. Three years ago, he warned about the risks in hedge funds and derivatives : "The substantial increase in the role of hedge funds in our financial system also...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...e worrying part is that we don't yet know what will happen with those credit default swaps, the derivatives that brought the whole thing crashing down. "The government may be betting that it...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...little trick called reclassification. By reclassifying the warrants as permanent equity rather than derivatives, the gains and losses don't show up in the earnings. As Bloomberg columnist Jonath...
Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games
in Sox First, on November 5, 2008
... it won't solve the problem. When financial markets were up, such assets as loans, securities, derivatives, mortgages, property, also rose in value, showing the banks to be strongly capitalized. ...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...f the big banks want our help, we should demand stricter oversight, particularly of the unregulated derivatives markets. Our cash should come with a bright light. Otherwise, we'll just have more o...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...ir most severe crisis in the last quarter of a century"), Warren Buffett five years ago ("Derivatives generate reported earnings that are often wildly overstated and based on estimates whose...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...er the ultimate bust. That's important, because thanks to the massive manufacturing and sale of derivatives, there has never been a boom supported to such a large degree by thin air. And since the...
There's worse ahead - central bankers
in Sox First, on July 1, 2008
...rt also condemns the high level of financial innovation, through various debt instruments , like derivatives which it says have had "calamitous side-effects". Earlier this year, I examine...
3CX PBX For Windows
in The VoIP Weblog, on June 26, 2008
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I suppose this is good if you're not comfortable with Linux-based solutions like Asterisk (and derivatives), but I am failing to see what is particularly innovative about this product other than ...
Skincare Tips from NYC Aesthetician Andrea DeSimone
in Are you a beauty?, on May 29, 2008
...heck the ingredient list and avoid trigger ingredients like sodium Laurel sulfate, petroleum derivatives, parabens and synthetic fragrances, colors or dyes.
3. Keep your hair off your face at ...
Fraudulent firms and lobbying
in Sox First, on April 8, 2008
...atural gas, allowing certain types of debt off the book, and blocking government regulations on its derivatives trading. At the same time, these fraudulent firms pay big bucks. About $3 billion of in...
Greenspan's Bubbles
in Sox First, on March 18, 2008
...d, according to Fleckenstein, he championed the technology and financial innovations in the form of derivatives, asset-backed securities , collateralized loan obligations and collateralized mort...
Top 10 big business risks for 2008
in Sox First, on March 17, 2008
...rs and cyber-terrorism; the growing complexity of financial innovations such as securitizations and derivatives; legal risk, particularly with environmental liability, managerial liability where aggri...
High finance, complexity and disaster
in Sox First, on March 5, 2008
...s around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives. There's a lot of benefits from it. Risk is better allocated and people and companie...
U, V, W or L - recession letters
in Sox First, on February 28, 2008
...orate debt have hardly started. Finally, there are the more esoteric losses on credit insurance and derivatives. When all this is done, we expect total losses of about $1.4 trillion globally, or 2.5% ...
Subprime mess: where was the SEC?
in Sox First, on February 7, 2008
...Forbes . As she points out, the regulators have always had the power to stop the banks from selling derivatives and complex securities. Why didn't they act before? They had been reluctant to hesit...
Buffett bonding
in Sox First, on January 2, 2008
Interesting questions raised from The Wall Street Journal's scoop last week that Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance firm with the goal of giving local governments a cheaper borrowing option. The business will guar...
End of the boomers? Bring on the leeches
in Sox First, on December 18, 2007
...ortgage, corporate), plus America's share of the debt hidden inside the $300 trillion in global derivatives, what Pimco's Bill Gross warns is a high-risk 'shadow' banking system, the u...
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
in Businesspundit, on November 20, 2007
...us view of someone who actually knows what he is talking about.
The professionals may explain that derivatives help globalized information-drenched markets disperse risk, but this is wishful thinking...
Subprime everywhere
in Sox First, on November 19, 2007
...idential homes. And just as true for the big Wall Street players selling each other all those fancy derivatives. The mortgage brokers who offered no-money-down loans to customers with no documentation...
Wall Street to be hit by a Level Three Storm
in Sox First, on November 7, 2007
...ized credit card obligations, leveraged buyout bridge loans, asset backed commercial paper, complex derivatives contracts, credit default swaps. And that spells disaster for the banks, he says. "...
Fear and loathing on Wall Street
in Sox First, on November 2, 2007
...rers who insure mainstream debt instruments, such as subprime mortgages and their associated credit derivatives. Investors are selling out because they're worried the insurers won't have enoug...
O'Neal's $160 million parachute: Merrill Lynch's reward for failure
in Sox First, on October 31, 2007
... the bank into its biggest loss for years by exposing it to bad deals in subprime mortgages, credit derivatives and leveraged loans. Let's cut to the chase here. Instead of sacking him and forcin...
UAE Hedge Fund Invesments Increase
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 26, 2007
... plan to increase their holdings in alternative investments such as private equity, hedge funds and derivatives in the next three years, according to a new global report published by Barclays Wealth.
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Biodegradable Nanoparticles For Delivery of Cancer Drugs
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...yethylene glycol (PEG) chains which are attached to recently developed components: lactic acid derivatives of polymethacrylamides. These new chains possess the unique combined property of biodegr...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 26
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...e'."
I won't go into it here, but Buffett spends a long time explaining the danger of derivatives, a subject most of us can not get our heads around. Buffett's explanation clears it ...
Hedging and Communism?
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...sion funds' investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market. Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for ...
Six strategies for risky innovations
in Sox First, on October 16, 2007
...there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial innovations, from derivatives to sub-prime mortgages. The best way to deal with it is to understand the nature of the...
Ginger Extract May Treat E. coli Diarrhea
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 1, 2007
...nduced diarrhea.
"In conclusion, our findings provide evidence that Ginger and its derivatives may be effective herbal supplements for the clinical treatment of enterotoxigenic Escher...
Three steps to tackling the new financial risks
in Sox First, on August 21, 2007
...peration between the supervisory bodies, getting the ratings agencies to improve their modelling of derivatives and investors showing better Risk management capabilities. If it's left unche...
Bear markets and the Rumsfeld effect
in Sox First, on August 11, 2007
...at US mortgages are more than just home loans . They are platforms for banks to hang a lot of derivatives off, which means the risk is spread around. And that's where the problem lies. The ...
Recent Hedge Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 23, 2007
...ounced the launch of its new Global Synthetic Prime sales and trading group within its Equities and Derivatives business. The group is headed by Rich Sansaricq who is based in New York and has the res...
INSPIRATION FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
in Digital Shot, on May 29, 2007
...realistically achievable in your own work.
Check out this blog and get some fresh ideas, or create derivatives of your own from these innovative pictures .
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Nanotube Aerogel Can Hold 8000 Times Its Own Weight
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 25, 2007
...ium. Nanotube aerogel will be especially useful because it blocks heat, a trait that other nanotube derivatives lack....
Hedge Funds & Strategy
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2007
...vor in the crowd.
global macro - Investing in shifts between global economies , often using derivatives to speculate on interest-rate or currency moves.
Market neutral : Typically , equal amo...
Naturally Occurring Peptide in Human Blood Can Block HIV
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 24, 2007
...ges in the fragment enhanced its antiretroviral potency by two orders of magnitude.
VIRIP and its derivatives remained effective against drug-resistant HIV strains, making them "highly p...
The Wild, Wild World Of Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 10, 2007
...by 2010.
*Hedge funds can employ whatever investing tools they want, including leverage, the use of derivatives like options and futures, and short sales.
*Practically all financial institutions use t...
New Hedge Fund Regulations in Bahrain
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 9, 2007
... new regulations that they hope will open up the development of a regional industry of hedge funds, derivatives and other alternative investment instruments.
The new framework will create a new categ...
Hedge Fund Executive
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 3, 2007
...museum.
For the past year or so, Citadel has been investing in China and making big bets on credit derivatives....
One Big Ponzi Scheme
in Businesspundit, on March 20, 2007
...ousehold debt is running at about 100 percent of GDP in America and higher still in Britain. Credit derivatives are soaring in value and payment-in-kind notes (which pay interest with more debt, rathe...
Nick Leeson wants to come back
in Sox First, on March 9, 2007
...their money. What all that says is that Leeson still remains a committed gambler. And working as a derivatives trader would be right up his sleeve because essentially what you are doing is placing be...
New Hedge Fund Platform
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 7, 2007
... SuperDerivatives announced the launch of First Cross-Asset, Turnkey Derivatives Platform for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers.
SD-Funds said in a press release that the platform is a breakthrough i...
Heads of US Hedge Fund Study Group Warn Against Over Regulation
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 2, 2007
...said that U.S. authorities must take care not to stifle financial innovation by over-regulating the derivatives and hedge fund industries.
"I would be very reluctant to get involved in heavy-ha...
The link between fraud and lobbying
in Sox First, on February 20, 2007
...atural gas, allowing certain types of debt off the book, and blocking government regulations on its derivatives trading. Now a new study has found that fraudulent firms spend more on lobbying, and us...
Liver X Receptor: A Dual Role Glucose Sensor
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2006
...f dietary components, determining the body's response to nutrients like oxysterols (short-lived derivatives of cholesterol) and controlling gene expression linked to cholesterol and fat metabolism...
Plant-Derived Lead Compound Against Malaria Liver Stages
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 28, 2006
... , to be active against the liver stages of human and mouse malaria .
One of its semisynthetic derivatives, NCP-tazopsine , completely protected mice from a challenge with malarial parasites, an...
Nick Leeson blames the banks
in Sox First, on December 26, 2006
...e Singapore office, was employed by Barings to profit from low risk arbitrage opportunities between derivatives contracts on the Singapore Mercantile Exchange and Japan's Osaka Exchange. He ended ...
Heparin Derivatives: Drug Candidates Against Alzheimers Disease
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 27, 2006
Scientists are exploring the use of heparan sulphates, long-chain sugars naturally found in the body, to precent the amyloid plaques that are charateristic of Alzheimer's disease.
"We have developed a new class of compounds called 'engineered heparins' that could possibly be d...
Creative Commons: 140 Million Files Strong
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 23, 2006
...freely downloaded, played, shared, and distributed. Individual licenses may limit commercial use or derivatives, or require attribution. flikr , for example, provides its millions of photos unde...
Creative Commons: 140 Million Files Strong
in P2P File Sharing, on October 23, 2006
...freely downloaded, played, shared, and distributed. Individual licenses may limit commercial use or derivatives, or require attribution. flikr , for example, provides its millions of photos unde...
Spanish Company to Produce BioPetroleum
in IfEnergy, on August 5, 2006
...dvantages of petroleum, without the disadvantages such as carbon dioxide emission and other harmful derivatives. Read more about this development by clicking on this link .
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Latest in Diabetes Treatment: Cow Excrement
in Daily Diabetic, on June 30, 2006
... and skin diseases.
Sri Narayana Bhat Swamiji is on a mission to promote local breeds and use cows derivatives to prepare 16 varieties of medicines for major diseases. He said that the first urinatio...
Wall Street Kicks You in the Crotch
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 22, 2006
...e and more of its time and money on investing in instruments you & I don't understand, like derivatives, and generally laughing all the way to the bank:
"This shift was obvious last yea...
New Financial Derivatives Track Employee Options
in Businesspundit, on June 8, 2006
I read in the WSJ this morning that Zions Bancorp is about to offer a new financial instrument that tracks employee stock options. They are seeking SEC approval to sell, via public auction, a security that mimics option grants to their employees. It is difficult to pin down the exact value of...
Accounting and shell games
in Sox First, on March 16, 2006
... in serious accounting Doodoo . And remember Berkshire Hathaway's exposure to General Re's derivatives business which in last year's pullout, cost Berkshire Hathaway $104 million pre-tax ...
.Net Developers Are In Demand
in Java Entrepreneur, on February 3, 2006
...in a given field (say, a firm looking for a .NET developer experienced in using software related to derivatives) they might snag a salary hike of 15 percent or more when they switch jobs.
Those who wo...
Tulips and Supercars From Holland
in carzz.org, on January 24, 2006
...rmance, limited-production and very expensive sports and sports-racing machine available in several derivatives.
The Spyker that I photographed in Phoenix is a C8 Spyder. The mid-mounted 4.2 liter V-...
WHO Urges Firms To Stop Sales of Artemisinin As Stand Alone Therapy Against Malaria
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 24, 2006
...upplemental reading: A dissertation, Studies on molecular mechanism of action and synthesis of new derivatives of the antimalarial drug artemisinin (published March 2005), is available for download ...
More on Ritchie Asia Expansion Plans
in China Venture News, on December 20, 2005
...tions, real estate investing, mezzanine financing to tradable private and government securities and derivatives....
THE OUTDOOR SPORTS LIST: #2 KAYAKING
in The Outdoor Weblog, on December 20, 2005
... where the surf is low of course).
Kayking is so diverse. There are so many branches the are derivatives from the parent sport. You can kayak in whitewater rapids, smooth-flowing rivers, Sierra...
DNA-Based Vaccine Against Avian Flu
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 17, 2005
...e paper's lead author said that currently available flu-fighting drugs (oseltamivir, adamantine-derivatives, zanamivir) are by no means a replacement or alternative to a vaccine.
The challenge i...
