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.

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

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…

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…