This video provides highlights on The Rise of the Renminbi, a leadership summit for corporate treasurers, held in London and presented by The Banker in association with HSBC Global Banking and Markets. It offers a bite-sized guidance on how to tap into and exploit the opportunities that have arisen as a result of the developing offshore renminbi market.

IE Business School is spearheading education in Islamic finance and business and has the aspiration of becoming the Islamic finance education hub in Europe. The inauguration ceremony of the Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance was hosted at IE Business School in December 2011 where we welcomed Dr. Ahmad M. Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia. He argued that Spain was chosen as a partner country by the Islamic community due to its strong historical links, acting as a bridge between western and middle-eastern societies.

U.S. policymakers continue their discussion about whether to raise America's debt ceiling above its current level of $14.3 trillion. Standard & Poor's has observed that any failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause significant and long-lasting financial and economic disruptions. In this CreditMatters TV interview, Paul Coughlin, Standard & Poor's executive managing director, discusses our views on the potential impact on the U.S. economy and the financial markets if the debt cap issue is not resolved in a timely manner.

A significant market segment is emerging as a result of the financial crisis. According to a recent survey conducted by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, 22 percent of Americans with bank accounts experienced a serious negative credit situation during the last two years, and 11 percent were first-time defaulters - consumers who had never fallen into delinquency before.

En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Joydeep Mukherji, senior director, y Lisa Schineller, director, ambos de Calificaciones Soberanas para América Latina, revisan la situación actual de la calidad crediticia en la región, donde Standard & Poor's tiene calificaciones de grado de inversión para cinco países. Asimismo, nos hablan de los retos que enfrentan Brasil y México.

The economic downturn forced many financial institutions to face serious questions about their debt portfolios. While tackling significant loan challenges, some of these institutions have also had to deal with the added pressures of new industry regulations and investor expectations.

In this episode, Karl Debenham shares his views on the benefits and implications of the convergence of GAAP and IFRS.

While it is impossible to directly access spot volatility, futures and futures-based indices can provide broad access to what has been dubbed the "investor fear gauge". The term structure of volatility has a profound impact on index characteristics and is key to efficient usage of these instruments.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently proposed adjusting its standards for how companies should account for and report their financial instruments, hedging activities, and derivatives instruments. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Senior Director Joyce Joseph discusses our responses to the proposal. Topics include fair value, credit impairment, hedge accounting, and how FASB's financial instrument proposal differs from the International Accounting Standards Board's existing and proposed standards.

Mientras que la innovación en los negocios es generalmente considerada como algo bueno, en el ámbito financiero ha sido objeto de críticas severas ya que las innovaciones difíciles de comprender tales como derivados de CDOs y CDSs fueron responsabilizados en gran medida por la crisis financiera. Hablando aquí con Gillian Tett del Financial Times en el World Business Forum, Paul Krugman describe cómo él considera que la innovación financiera debería ser gestionada.

Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund and author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, says the recently passed Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act does little to prevent the biggest financial risk of our time -- banks that are becoming "too big to save," either because potential losses could overwhelm government resources, or the public will refuse to sanction another large bailout.

Faced with the possibility of a global currency war, Western countries are increasing their scrutiny of China's currency policies, accusing Beijing of intervening in the markets to keep China's currency weaker than it would be otherwise. Knowledge@Wharton spoke with Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen and Wharton management professor Mauro Guillen about what is at stake, and why this particular conflict is so difficult to resolve.

Mercer investment expert Tom Raftery explains the concept of mezzanine debt and why it has become such an attractive investment vehicle in the wake of the global economic crisis.

This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

What can I say? It's Valentine's weekend. Some stocks are widely appreciated and their prices are too high. These beauties get all the attention. But there is also big potential in the wallflowers, the under-appreciated value stocks. But which ones are they and how does one find them? Here with some answers Steve Block, CFA and Portfolio Manager with Phocas Financial Corporation, a subadvisor to Wells Fargo Advantage Funds.

The international financial position of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has improved beyond recognition, reflected largely in their large official FX reserves. However, as of 2008, only China and Russia were creditors in terms of their net international investment position.

Anne Murphy, lecturer in history at the University of Hertfordshire and associate director of the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College, Cambridge, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about her new book ‘The Origins of English Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble'. The interview was recorded in London in January 2010

Peter Nulty sat down with Thomas C. Ognar, CFA, and Anthony Cragg in October 2009 to discuss the current state of the growth and foreign equity markets. Plus, they answer Peter's questions: Is diversification and asset allocation dead? Is buy-and-hold dead? And what would happen if China called in their loans to the US?

Axel Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the need to rebalance between risk-taking and regulation in financial markets. They discuss the opportunity for central bankers and other G20 players to design and implement new regulation, and the likely future size of the financial sector in the overall economy. The interview was recorded at the Global Economic Symposium in Schleswig-Holstein in September 2009.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released an updated edition of its popular IFRS and US GAAP: Similarities and Differences guide. It is designed to improve companies' understanding of the changes to, and major differences between, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).