IECA Members Receive Discount Rate to Moody's CLUE Training Program
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IECA Partners with Association Headquarters, Inc.
I am pleased to communicate to our IECA members and sponsors some exciting news that will take our Association to the next level. At the Spring Board meeting, the IECA Board of Directors initiated a Service Provider selection process. A selection committee was created and charged to identify key attributes in a Service Provider that we felt were pinnacle to the Association's success and growth; we then solicited proposals from various Service Providers. After a detailed screening and research process we finally came to a decision to select Association Headquarters, Inc., to manage our organization and build upon the firm foundation that the previous staff had made under the direction of the Board of Directors.
Sovereign risk was the watch word at the turn of the year, and concern over Sovereign default in Western Europe continued to rise throughout January. Mounting budget deficits, accounting discrepancies and hesitant political action drove the Western European SovX to new highs, and a premium to the corporate iTraxx. Greece captured the headlines, though Portugal and France moved more in percentage t
Today’s fraud charges by the State of New York against former Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis prompted me to think about how people have tolerated the last three years of crisis, particularly risk management experts. That’s the subject of today’s post.
The January labour market report provided a mixed picture going into 2010. Disappointingly, job declines continued into January falling 20,000 in the month with the drop in December deepened to 150,000 from the previously estimated 85,000 decline. The increase in November was raised to 64,000 from a previous 4,000 gain.
ISDA)last week announced that it is broadening the leadership of the ISDA Documentation Committee by forming an Advisory Board that will encompass buy- and sell-side institutions to better represent global documentation needs across constituencies.
Americans are hopeful that the environment will help rescue the struggling economy. Of the investors surveyed, 73% think that enacting policies to promote “green” practices and technologies will have a positive impact on economic growth.
American energy policy is a bit stop and go. While it's now centered on going green, the signals coming from Washington are always yellow and continually making participants hesitant to commit to long-term projects.
ISDA last week announced that LCDS dealers voted to hold an auction for European loan-only CDS transactions referencing a credit agreement entered into by, amongst others, the credit known as Lafarge Roofing.
