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Operational Risk Conference Preview > Experts to speak on evolution and challenges of op risk
Risk magazine and Operational Risk are holding their sixth annual Operational Risk conferences in London and New York in March. The events are designed to provide delegates with insights into the latest techniques for managing and quantifying operational…
New York meeting brings iBoxx and Trac-x merger closer
The banks behind the iBoxx CDX credit derivatives indexes have agreed on points that could herald a merger between the index and its big rival, the Dow Jones Trac-x index, following a meeting in New York, reports Risk’s sister publication Credit .
Northern Trust to provide corporate governance data to custodial clients
The Northern Trust Company, a custody, asset administration and investment management services firm, is offering institutional clients using its Global Investor Passport portal access to Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) scores set by Institutional…
Emission control
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String theory
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A fact of life?
Can the price risks associated with abnormally cold winter temperatures and theirimpact on short term energy demand be predicted ahead of time? Logical InformationMachines’ Sandy Fielden investigates recent freezing temperatures in Boston,Massachusetts
RMS releases updated Climetrix weather trading system
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based provider of products and services for the management of natural hazard risk, today released version 4.0 of its Climetrix weather derivatives trading and risk management system.
Repeal repercussions
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The cost of good data
The US-based Committee of Chief Risk Officers plans to propose voluntary standardsfor energy price reporting later this year, in the hope of ruling out any needfor mandatory standards. Joe Marsh reports
Old dog, new teeth?
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Rethinking regulation
Market manipulation and inaccurate pricing led to the reregulation of Ontario’s electricity market. But at the right price, the Canadian province may see a revival of competition, reports CatherineLacoursière
Technology
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Securities Associations publish guidelines on capital treatment of trading book items
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda), the London Investment Banking Association (LIBA) and the Bond Market Association (BMA) have published a compendium on capital treatment of trading book items, such as derivatives and securities…
SunGard unveils new trading and risk management suite
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems (STRS) will next week unveil the first version of its Adaptiv trading and risk management suite.
Constructing an operational event database
Michael Haubenstock of US bank Capital One outlines a framework for an event database, formulated with current US regulatory guidance on the subject in mind. The text is an abstract from The Basel Handbook, which has just been published by Risk Books.
The score for credit
Jorge Sobehart and Sean Keenan discuss the benefits and limitations of model performance measures for default and credit spread prediction, and highlight several common pitfalls in the model comparison found in the literature and vendor documentation. To…
Spreading the net: in search of the best fund managers
RMB International's Global Spread Capture Fund, a fund of hedge funds, has added value by taking significant decisions about which market to be in at particular times.