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An atlas of banks country-by-country (approx. 1000 banks, split by region) and a list of the top 250 global financial groups by assets.

The closing weeks of 2008 brought encouraging signs that this Asian crisis might not be as bad as the last one. Lawrence White speaks to Amando M Tetangco Jr, governor of the central bank of the Philippines, about the challenges facing the banking sector, forecasts for growth and inflation, and lessons learnt from the 1997 crisis.

There’s been a fair amount written about how companies, especially financials, are struggling to recruit talent because of their declining stock market valuations. In particular, the award of longer-dated call options and non-vested stock is currently seen as worthless and potentially demotivating. After all, most market participants have seen the value of their pension pots completely mullered this year as a result of the decline in bank and hedge fund valuations.

FXall has opened an office in Sydney as part of its drive in Asia Pacific. At the same time, it has appointed industry veteran Jonathan Woodward as the head of its Australia & New Zealand operations.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has secured more than $12 million in restitution and civil monetary penalties against nine Florida defendants in settlement of an anti-fraud lawsuit related to the marketing of illegal off-exchange FX options.

It appears that all it takes is a little bit of movement in the FX market to get the mass media all hot and bothered.

It seems only a matter of time before we see an offering that allows FX swaps to be centrally cleared.

Wallstreet Systems recently sent out a white paper written by McLagan (Z/YEN). This has attempted to provide a proper analysis to the true cost per trade and suggest a methodology for benchmarking straight-through-processing rates. The report was commissioned as part of Wallstreet’s marketing for its Electronic Settlement Network (ESN), which was announced in October.

Icap's 16th annual global charity day

UniCredit has hired Dennis Height to trade G10 spot out of its New York office. He was previously chief dealer and EUR trader at Lehman New York.

The CME has named Marcus Katz as director, interest rate products. In his new role, Katz will be responsible for expanding the exchange’s presence in the over the counter interest rate market and growing the company's global customer base. He will report to Robin Ross, the CME’s managing director, interest rate products. Katz was most recently at Winnemac Investments, a fixed-income asset management company located in Chicago. Before that, he held senior roles at Lehman Brothers in New York and Bank of America in Chicago.