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• Businesses must tread a fine line between renewed opportunities and deadly pitfalls
• Risk models are adapting post-crisis
• Policies have had some success in curbing defaults - -
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With green shoots temptation flourishes
For the corporate world, it is hang-on-to-your-hat time. Markets have rebounded dramatically from the lows in March and the economy is at a very uncertain inflexion point.
Blanket rulings on derivatives raise fears of smothering
In Brussels last month US and European regulators, bankers and European Commission bureaucrats gathered in a conference hall to discuss, for the first time in public, planned reforms of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets.
Complex structures need close inspection
One factor that has been making the recession more problematic for companies both big and small is that as businesses source goods from ever-cheaper regions of the world, supply chains have become longer and more vulnerable.
Modelling adapts as catastrophic clouds clear
As the banking sector teetered on the brink of collapse last year, it became clear that many of the risk management tools adopted by financial institutions had proved inadequate for the job.
Companies learn to care for cash
As the number of corporate failures has risen, there is one line that bankers continue to echo: it is not a fall in profits or ebitda that leads to failure, but a lack of cash.
Government initiatives pay small but worthy dividends
Of all the industries that have received government support in the past year, the trade credit insurance sector was one of the least likely.
