Infrastructure
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
Corporate disclosure | Exposing exposures: how far will it go?
The Enron debacle has spurred investors and creditors to press for greater disclosure of corporate risk and hedging strategies. Companies are beginning to respond. How far will it go? Naomi Humphries reports
Hedge fund risk and VAR uncertainty
External transparency of the risk of hedge funds continues to be a difficult issue. But even internally, traditional risk measures can fail to portray the full implication of highly leveraged positions. David Rowe argues that the parameter sensitivity of…
Scaling the wall
Corporate hedging
Rules of the game
Regulations
Goldman signs up Imagine for prime brokerage
Goldman Sachs is to offer Imagine Software's ASP risk management and trading services to clients of its prime brokerage unit, GSI Prime Brokerage, formalising a partnership begun last year in which GSI clients started using the Imagine product.
Moody's extends RiskCalc coverage to UK
Moody's Risk Management Services (MRMS) has added non-financial private UK company data to its Web-based default estimator tool, Moody's RiskCalc.
Taipei Bank opts for FNX’s FirstOrder
Taipei Bank has chosen FNX Limited, a Philadelphia-based software vendor specialising in straight-through processing applications used in global capital markets, to deliver Web-based electronic trading capabilities via its FirstOrder application.
Nyfix to acquire Javelin Technologies
Nyfix, the Connecticut-based electronic trading and straight-through processing systems vendor, is set to acquire Wall Street-based FIX (Financial Information eXchange) infrastructure supplier, Javelin Technologies.
Arb fund reign to continue
Convertible bonds
Asset managers run for cover
Enterprise-level risk
Reading the signals
Forex modelling
Turkish crossover
Turkey
Patsystems saga continues
Patsystems’ extraordinary general meeting, requisitioned by a group of disgruntled shareholders on February 11 this year, has been postponed until March 23.
IKB chooses Trema’s Finance KIT
Trema, a Stockholm-based financial services IT vendor and management consultancy whose clients include the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank and the Czech Republic’s ING Investment Management today announced that IKB Deutsche Industriebank had…
Weather risk solutions
Germany
Controlling power
Germany
Out on its own
Germany
