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SunGard acquires Kronos Software

Pennsylvania-based technology firm SunGard Trading and Risk Systems has acquired London-based Kronos Software, the real-time risk management and trading solutions provider.

SunGard acquires EnFORM Technology

SunGard Trading and Risk Systems today announced that it has acquired EnFORM Technology, a Houston-based technology-consulting firm that provides custom software applications for companies operating in the energy and telecommunications industries.

Credit risk reporting: Managing the exposure challenge

Mass financial shocks – including Enron and Argentina – are forcing banks to disclose more information, faster, about their credit exposures to satisfy skittish investors. How are banks' technology infrastructures coping with this challenge?

SunGard offers risk analysis for STN users

SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, a unit of US financial services supplier SunGard, will offer users of SunGard Transaction Network (STN) Treasury - an online trading platform for forex and money markets - on-demand risk analysis and reporting through…

Basel II sets the pace for operational risk reform

Basel II is set to come into play in 2005, bringing a host of opportunities for vendors along with the new framework for banking supervision. Andrew Partridge examines the potential and some of the challenges for the suppliers and users of financial…

SunGard in deal with Spanish bank association

SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, based in New York, today announced that it has licensed its market and credit risk management system, Panorama, to the Confederacion Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), an association representing Spain’s 47 savings…

A major improvement

In May, David Rowe wrote that the Basel Committee ‘could do better’ with respect to the inclusion of operational risk in the capital Accord. Here, he says the working paper the committee published in late September outlines a major and valuable…

SunGard appoints two new presidents

SunGard Trading and Risk Systems has appointed new presidents to lead two of its operating units. Paul Murphy becomes president of SunGard Collateral and Steve Husk joins as president of Credient/Infinity. Both Murphy and Husk will report to Jim Ashton,…

DSTi forms trading alliance with SunGard

DST International (DSTi), an order-processing provider to the fund management industry, has formed a strategic alliance with SunGard Trading Systems that will allow fund managers to fully integrate DSTi's portfolio management services with SunGard's…

Banking on progress

A dizzying array of credit risk technology firms have set up shop in Asia in order to reap the rewards of the new Basel recommendations. But are Asia’s regional banks ready to implement these systems?

Frozen in time

David Rowe believes the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is perpetuating obsolete standards of risk measurement.

Basel’s flawed paradigm

David Rowe suggests some important tweaks to the new Basel Capital Accord, if it is not to be viewed as reflecting an obsolete definition of capital adequacy.

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