Risk systems
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems.
Insurers embrace risk systems
Insurance companies have been slower than banks to adopt advanced risk modelling techniques and technologies. But regulatory changes and business exigencies are spurring them to adopt a new generation of risk and capital management systems
Weaving an integrated solution
A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…
Making the connection
Front-office systems
Weaving an integrated solution
A treacherous credit environment and growing awareness of the danger of credit and market risk correlation have convinced financial institutions that they need to evaluate these exposures together. To get a unified view, will they need to adopt unified…
Industry On Alert
A joint finance-technology-government effort to safeguard the market infrastructure has already resulted in a secret command center and preliminary guidelines for industry-wide best practices.
SunGard sets out plans for Guardian
DISASTER RECOVERY
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “It is likely that doubt and a lack of market confidence will affect all energy trading for some time to come” Francis Hervé, chief executive of EDF Trading, the London-based trading subsidiary of Electricité de France (EDF),…
Electronic platforms short circuit
E-trading
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'.
Servicing the e-industry
Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together
Predictive Merton
Technical
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “Few regulators really understand derivatives... That’s not their fault, many of us don’t either” A London forex trader commenting on AIB’s $750 million loss. Source: The Mirror, February 7
Following the trends
John McGillian tells Jeff Benjamin about the best opportunities for hedge fund incubators ' in CTAs and macro hedge funds
Looking for blips on the radar
STRAIGHT-THROUGH SETTLEMENT
Turbo-charged models
Derivatives dealers get a substantial edge if they can model and price positions faster than their competitors. So system vendors are seeking to rev up the Monte Carlo simulation engines that power many of their analytics.