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Bijesh Amin Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

Bijesh Amin, co-founder and managing director of Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a technology solutions and services firm focused on the alternative asset management industry, has recently observed that hedge fund managers are concerned that policy makers may use the data they have gathered to place caps on hedge fund leverage. However, he argues, if regulators were to do that to safeguard against systemic risk, they would be looking at the wrong suspects.

Hedge funds face higher prime broker fees Basel III is a set of reform measures designed to improve the regulation, supervision and risk management within the banking sector. The first version was published in late 2009, giving banks approximately three years to satisfy all requirements. Largely in response to the credit crisis, banks are required to maintain proper leverage ratios and meet certain capital requirements.

The vast majority of G-20 nations are reshaping their laws and regulations to comply with these international banking rules, according to a progress report issued on April 7th by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The main laggards in carrying out the changes were......................

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