Features
XXX financing market braced for increased captive scrutiny
Reserve financing using offshore captives is big business in the US. Yet what started as an innovative method of moving excessive reserve requirements off balance sheet has turned, in some regulators’...
The design and optimisation of a successful commodity hedging programme requires solid backtesting that meets the needs of different business functions. Using a recent case study, Carlos Blanco and Tamir...
Nordic financiers complain of being unfairly scrutinised while regulators hint they would like to take more control of how structured products are sold. Vita Millers reports from the Structured Products...
Using market and credit risk analytics to strengthen performance
How are banks improving their risk management techniques?
This handy guide reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques, looking at the benefits and pitfalls of each one.
More Features articles
Insurers look to volatility controls to support long-term guarantees
As insurers look for ways to offer long-term guarantees to customers despite the challenging investment environment, some are turning to volatility control mechanisms to reduce the cost of hedging the guarantees. Louie Woodall examines how these mechanisms...
Uneconomic trading and market manipulation
Regulators, including the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are aggressively targeting uneconomic trading in a crackdown on potential market manipulation. Such moves have striking parallels in the history of baseball - some of which might prove...
Data mining helps unscramble complexities of fraud
Investigating fraud depends on data – but, in a digital business, the useful data for an investigation will almost certainly be submerged in a vast pool of irrelevant material. Companies need the skills and tools to handle huge quantities of unstructured...
Prime brokers look to capitalise on central clearing drive
With the large overlap between the requirements of prime broking and clearing there is an opportunity for the sector to provide a lead role in OTC clearing in Asia. But what restrictions are there on prime brokers operating in the clearing sector and...
Asia exchanges set for overhaul as competitiveness wanes
Recent high-profile outages on Asian exchanges have raised questions over the robustness of the region’s trading infrastructure. Is the solution greater competition or an increased spend on technology?
Insurers turn to structured credit in search for yield in Asia
Low global interest rates look to be set to stay, so Asian insurers are considering their options in the search for yield, with structured products and CLOs on the menu
BlueCrest's Braga on trend-following strategies
Leda Braga, president of BlueCrest Capital Management, leads the systematic trading unit, which runs three main strategies, including the $16 billion BlueTrend program
How can investment banks use grid technology?
Learn how technology is enhancing risk management
Technology can provide a competitive advantage in banking. How it is applied by Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutions, to the benefit for their risk management systems, is discussed.
Related conferences
-
What’s next for fixed-income ETFs and structured products?
UK, 3rd Jul 2013
-
Quant Congress USA
USA, 17th - 19th Jul 2013
-
Liquidity and Funding Risk
UK, 24th - 25th Sep 2013
-
The OTC Derivatives Markets Conference
UK, 26th Sep 2013
-
Risk USA
USA, 21st - 24th Oct 2013
Related training
Updating your subscription status 
Risk IPad Apps
Email alerts
Weekly poll
Using market and credit risk analytics to strengthen performance
This white paper reviews the various steps banks are taking to improve their risk management techniques.
How financial services need to consider their IT infrastructure
The global credit crisis exposed the weaknesses inherent in the risk management and IT infrastructures employed by banks.
- Finding the Right Path to Hedge Accounting
- Don’t get left behind – how financial services need to consider their IT infrastructure
- Rebuilding Customer Trust in Retail Banking
- How customer-centric transformation can lead to an increase in revenue and streamline operations
- Anti-Money Laundering when transaction monitoring is not sufficient
Related Jobs
