Infrastructure/Commodities
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems.
CLNs come of age
Technical
Bondholders versus shareholders
Sponsored article
Equity poses the big questions
Roundtable
European telcos: mixed signals
Credit of the month
Fully operational
Modeling, measuring and hedging operational risk by Marcelo Cruz Wiley Finance 330 pages, £49.39 ISBN 0-471-51560-4
Q1 scapegoats: energy and weather
Risk’s second quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures provides some evidence that companies are becoming more forthcoming. But losses on hedgeable exposures, especially energy and weather, continued to plague many
An aggressive agenda
Dresdner’s chief risk officer, Heinrich Linz, is masterminding a credit revolution at the German bank.
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems
Tools for the trade
Credit Risk
Totem launches valuation system to help energy traders
Totem Market Valuations, the London-based valuation clearinghouse, has launched a new service for energy traders. Totem’s energy derivatives valuation service is designed to give traders in over-the-counter energy contracts a market price gleaned from a…
NAB offers soft commodity hedging in Australia
National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched a range of soft commodity hedging products to cater for the country's large agricultural sector.
Weaving an integrated solution
A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…
Swiss Re signs up for updated RMS weather trading system
Swiss Re Financial Products (SRFP) has licensed an updated weather risk trading system developed by Risk Management Solutions (RMS), the California-based technology and data firm.
Proper procedures
Credit Risk
Higher or lower?
Credit Risk
The risk transfer shell game
Credit derivatives