Red tape and risk hinders swaps
GLOBAL - Risk aversion among banks and a weighty legal burden caused by the global credit crisis has severely hampered pension schemes abilities to use derivatives-based liability hedging, according to Watson Wyatt.
The firm said the documentation required by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) to complete these transactions was taking on average over a month longer to complete than earlier...
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