Derivatives research house of the year: Deutsche Bank

Risk awards 2011

Derivatives research desks are getting used to advising clients on how to avoid disaster. After the subprime crisis in 2007, the collapse of Lehman Brothers the following year and the threat of global recession in 2009, the focus last year was firmly on the eurozone sovereign crisis.

Readers of derivatives research say Deutsche Bank did a particularly good job in helping them navigate this crisis – starting in August 2009, when the bank warned the fiscal position of Greece had the potential to c