Opinion/Technology
Introduction: Music to techno ears
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In times of crisis, an investment in technology appears to be a safe bet. Odd as it may sound, if you are planning to be in business as the cycle turns and you are faced with a slowing down of business...
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Computers may triumph playing Jeopardy, but that represents mastery of only one dimension of what we call human intelligence, argues David Rowe
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The financial crisis brought about a broad agreement that companies need to re-visit their risk management functions and 18 months on it does seem that many companies have followed their words with action...
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Technology limits
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Asia is widely predicted to follow the lead set by the US and Europe, with the pricing, trading, clearing and settlement of many financial instruments moving electronic. There will be some obvious challenges, data integrity, system stability, international...
Column: Charles Cronin
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Flawed models, conflicts of interest, ineffectual leadership: the rating agencies have emerged from the financial crisis with little credit, and reform may strip them further of their influence
Column: Paul Taylor
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Ratings downgrades reflect a decline in creditworthiness, not an admission that the ratings were wrong in the first place. But that doesn't mean the rating process can't be improved. Paul Taylor
Max Bublitz: The great race ... to the bottom
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Predicting how long the downturn will last is a fool's game. Past cycles are no useful indicator because we are undergoing a more tectonic shift in the global economic landscape
In thrall to the exchequer
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Banks have accepted the bailout cash, but will this Faustian pact come back to haunt them?
Column: Robin Keck
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Vulture funds, or distressed debt funds as they would prefer you call them, are seeing a wealth of opportunities in the current trying conditions. So why aren't more funds being raised?
Time for action
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Back-office processing has long been the neglected stepchild of the derivatives business. But improved technology and growing systemic risk mean the time is ripe for supervisors to demand T+0 reconciliation, argues David Rowe
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