Commodities/People
BNP to launch European power trading desk
BNP Paribas today said it plans to start a European powertrading desk as part of its energy and commodity business.
Kat to set up Alternative Investment Research Centre in London
Harry Kat, a former derivatives banker and quantitative finance academic, has been made professor of risk management at the Sir John Cass School of Business at City University in London. Kat, an author of numerous quantitative finance papers and former…
Abbey National Distributes Risk
A distributed computing system has solved the bank’s overnight batch processing needs. Next up: boosting intra-day processing capacity.
Digesting acquisitions
Profile
BNP merges desks
People news
Groundhog day
British Energy
To lend or not to lend...
Credit analysis
Digesting acquisitions
Profile
Credit roundup
Roundtable
Crossovers: mind the gap
Credit of the month
Corporate risk manager of the year – Scottish Power
The Risk Awards 2003
Technology briefs
Systems
Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place.
Fitch to investigate credit derivatives risk concentrations
Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings is concerned that the rapid growth and lack of transparency in the synthetic credit markets could be leading to alarming concentrations of risk with specific market participants.
CLS Is Live. What Next?
CLS participants breathed a huge sigh of relief when the long-awaited system launched successfully. Is anyone ready to start expanding the system to new products?
Filling in the holes
Fixed-income banking
Quality data and solutions for a challenging market
New Frontiers