Risk

Investors start 2014 more optimistic about global growth prospects, especially for the U.S. but increasingly for Europe as well, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for January.

Today De Nederlandse Bank (DNB) announced that it maintains its existing alternative interest rate term structure for calculation of the regulatory Solvency 1 available capital of Dutch insurance companies.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Russia’s Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at ’BBB’ with a Stable Outlook. The Short-term rating has been affirmed at ’F3’ and the Country Ceiling at ’BBB+’.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally approved the registration of Spread Research SAS, based in France, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 1 July 2013.

Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that the popular perception that sovereigns cannot default on debt denominated in their own currency because of their power to print money is a myth. They can and do...