Commodities/People
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Credit derivatives majors form data alliance
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase have launched a credit derivatives market data scrubbing and sharing project meant to head off disputes among market participants over the terms of their contracts.
'The Day the Bubble Burst'
By Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (1979)
Weather risk solutions
Germany
Opening up Germany’s gas market
Germany
Two hubs or one?
Germany
Controlling power
Germany
Clearing the way?
Germany
Growing quietly
Germany
Managing the exposure challenge
Credit risk reporting
Credit risk reporting: Managing the exposure challenge
Mass financial shocks – including Enron and Argentina – are forcing banks to disclose more information, faster, about their credit exposures to satisfy skittish investors. How are banks' technology infrastructures coping with this challenge?
New disclosure rule boosts pension risks
New UK accounting rule FRS 17 will force companies to disclose pensions liabilities on corporate balance sheets. The risk management issues are wide-ranging, and experts have few easy answers. Furthermore, the new rule could soon be adopted in a number…
Under fire
Credit derivatives
At the centre of the financial enterprise
ENTERPRISE-WIDE RISK MANAGEMENT
Pushing the equities button
The increase in size, diversity and sophistication of the equity derivatives markets has spurred demand for more efficient technology. How are firms responding?