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what ' s new at erisk . com - 06 april 2001
weekly review this week ' s economic , banking and p _ insurance news , from an
enterprise risk management perspective . read it here . . .
analysis
? how the new economy aided and abetted the economic downturn
? state or federal regulation ? banks and insurers slug it out
? credit risk concentration hits the interest - rate swaps market
feature why do some art products fare better than others ? credit insurance ,
for example , has taken off while the securitisation of catastrophe risk has
struggled . in this feature , sanford bernstein analysts todd bault and
timothy connor suggest that the secret of success lies in matching different
kinds of risk to their appropriate owners - and that insurers ' expertise in
handling basis risk makes this a potentially lucrative market . also still
available : penny cagan on basle ' s treatment of operational risk .
iconference
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still available : slides and a summary of the credit derivatives iconference .
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