Technology/Foreign exchange

Risk milestones

Anniversaries inevitably inspire an urge to reminisce. David Rowe lists several important public milestones and one personal milestone in the development of financial risk management

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Hedge Funds Review gathered 10 of the administration industry's great and good to share their thoughts on the most pressing issues facing the industry today...

The smart revolution

The smart grid is well on the way to becoming a reality, with some technologies already changing the economics of power supply. However, customers must be offered risk differentiated pricing for the real benefits of the smart grid to be realised, finds…

A cracked barrel?

Debate over the suitability of West Texas Intermediate as a benchmark crude resurfaces regularly, but recent price activity in the US oil contract – which influences the entire energy complex – is causing consternation. David Watkins reports

The CDO manager hit parade

With nearly 300 CDO managers plying their trade in today's global markets, investors are hard-pressed to decide who's top of the pops and who's a one-hit wonder. Rachel Wolcott speaks to influential investors to find out which managers they really rate

Issuer focus: VTB Bank Europe

VTB Bank Europe is the European arm of Russia's second-largest bank, VTB, which raised $8 billion in May in the biggest IPO so far this year. Global head of treasury Vladimir Sokolov talks to Nikki Marmery about investor demand for Russian debt and his…