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Hedge funds cut operating budgets in response to slowdown
The shrinking of assets managed by hedge funds is creating a strain on technology as operating budgets are reduced, according to both Thomson Reuters and SunGard. The most recent research by Chicago-based...
MarketAxess, the interdealer broker, and technology firm Investment Technology Group will provide integrated access to MarketAxess's fixed income compliance suite and ITG's transaction cost analysis product,...
In unprecedented market conditions, Murex retained its top position in Risk's 2008 technology rankings. However, Thomson Reuters and Algorithmics are close behind, demonstrating that, despite the financial...
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Banks are increasingly using their IT infrastructure to increase their competitive advantage. Learn how this can work in practice.
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State of the IT
The financial crisis has exposed a number of failings in risk management practices. Banks are looking to make improvements, with liquidity risk and counterparty credit risk management emerging as the key areas of focus. How have technology vendors been...
Risk management and technology
Risk: What do you think has been the most significant challenge in risk management in 2008? Robert Park: The financial crisis of 2008 has led to the realisation that financial institutions had woefully underestimated liquidity risk and assumed that...
Integrating trading, risk and operations: Risk management's new zeitgeist...
Volatility and correlation have reached unprecedented levels, and liquidity and counterparty credit risk have skyrocketed. Now, more than ever, traders and risk managers need answers they can trust. "An integrated trading, risk and operations system is...
Collateral management
Risk: Does moving to a central clearing house address the industry's concerns? Helen Bramley: In light of recent events, it may be viewed that a central clearing house would have provided information on the net exposure of the major dealers and could...
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The events of September and October highlighted that many financial institutions are uncertain how their Isda master agreements would be affected by the distress or failure of a counterparty. How are derivatives participants responding? By Nick Sawyer...
Introduction
Risk management and trading systems have come under attack over the past 12 months. As the first investigations into the causes of the subprime credit crisis started to emerge earlier this year, model failure was identified as one of the key faults. However,...
CDO Software signs Swiss bank
CDO Software, the synthetic CDO management firm, has added a top-tier Swiss investment bank to its growing client list. The bank - a prominent manager of synthetic CDOs, according to CDO Software - is using the firm's products, CDO Director and CDO Scheduler....
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