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What tomorrow's hardware means for today's risk systems
The shift from vacuum tubes to transistors revolutionised the optimum approach to software design – and banks’ risk technology strategy should be formulated with this lesson in mind, argues David...
It has taken a long time to build support for a system of legal entity identifiers – but now progress is being made, it is important to get the system right, argues David Rowe
Complying with looming, but unclear, regulation at a time when budgets are being squeezed is the tricky task facing many in the energy trading business at the moment. With the US Commodity Futures Trading...
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Keep regulation in proportion
Proportionality is a fundamental principle of European law. The principle underlies everything that the European Union does and requires the European Commission to justify the relevance and impact of all its proposals against this principle. How the...
Introduction: Music to techno ears
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 then the smart money invests. And technology is...
Jeopardy and the future of risk management
Computers may triumph playing Jeopardy, but that represents mastery of only one dimension of what we call human intelligence, argues David Rowe
Editor's letter – ETRM software spending up
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 and invested in their ETRM processes. According...
Technology limits
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...
Fubar markets of 2008 frustrate industry pundits
What was the biggest mistake you witnessed in 2008? Trying to pick the biggest mistake in a year full of colossal errors of judgement, policy and execution is tough. Top of the list comes the debacle following the ill-fated decision of the US government...
Towards T+0 reconciliation
The Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group's third major policy statement appeared in early August - and it presents surprisingly radical demands, says David Rowe
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