Technology/Foreign exchange
A prime time to invest
Choosing a prime broker can be a daunting task for any hedge fund manager. David Walker met Lehman Brothers' Gunner Burkhart for some tips on how to make the right decision and avoid the political pitfalls common in some investment banks
Banks not ready for Sepa, says report
Daily news headlines
Model marketing
cma
Setting the stage for 2008
As 2007 draws to a close, the Energy Risk team asked market participants what they regard as the most influential events of 2007 and how these are likely to shape market behaviour in 2008. By Stella Farrington with additional reporting by David Watkins
Solid foundations?
In a recent landmark step, India's power regulator has given 'in principle' go-ahead to the setting up of a power exchange in India. However, there is discomfort amongst potential participants over some of the regulator's plans. Rakesh Singh of Wipro…
Winding down
Prepayments
The tough go shopping
Investors
Gridlock in CDS confirmations
As if banks haven't got enough to worry about, new data from Markit Group shows that the amount of unconfirmed credit derivatives trades has increased sharply, to levels not seen for around two years. Simon Boughey reports
Moody's rolls out RMBS data tool for Europe
The EMEA PDS tool gives users access to the same kind of deal information for European RMBS that the rating agency's own analysts use
Index providers interview
Indexes
Contributi al rischio di fattori generici definiti dall'utente
Approfondimenti - Gestione degli investimenti
SIVs in need of a service
Structured Investment Vehicles
Automated trading to compose 90% of futures by 2010
Pit trading is fading fast. An estimated 50% of all futures markets transactions in 2007 occurred through automated trading strategies – including market-making and quantitative black-box trading activities - and this proportion will rise to 90% by 2010,…
LiquidityHub adds dollar interest rate swaps
London-based electronic trading consortium LiquidityHub today added dollar interest rate swaps to its fixed-income liquidity-aggregation system.
CSI and BITS cut outsource risk
Daily news headlines
Linked global carbon market could be worth €800 billion
A linked global carbon market between six major regions could be worth €600–800 billion, European Energy Exchange (EEX) chief operating officer Maik Neubauer said today at a press conference
Closer to the asset
As physical oil trading is increasingly influenced by supply and logistics issues, integrating specialised operational aspects into commercial risk models has become key. David Newton, CEO of TradeCapture, looks at how these challenges are changing…
Plugging the data gaps
Technology
Not stressed enough
Stress testing
Q&A: Rick McVey
In the wake of news that Thomson is to sell off part of TradeWeb, we ask the chief exec of e-trading platform MarketAxess how he sees the electronic bond trading landscape evolving