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Goldman's Litzenberger retires
Bob Litzenberger, head of firm-wide risk management for Goldman Sachs, retired last week. Noel Donohoe, chief operating officer for the firm-wide risk management group, has replaced him.
Survey shows corporate risks are going unhedged
Two-thirds of senior executives at US companies are not satisfied that their company has successfully identified and managed all their significant business risks, according to a recent joint report by Andersen and Financial Executives International.
Icap loses head of weather
Dan Tomlinson, head of weather derivatives at Icap, has left the London-based inter-dealer broker and joined WeatherXchange, a joint initiative between the UK’s Meteorological Office and Umbrella Brokers.
CBOE launches exposure instrument on S&P 500
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) yesterday launched Standard and Poor’s Depository Receipts (SPDRs), designed to give dealers, through a single product, exposure to the S&P 500 share index.
SunGard in deal with Spanish bank association
SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, based in New York, today announced that it has licensed its market and credit risk management system, Panorama, to the Confederacion Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), an association representing Spain’s 47 savings…
FIA reports record volumes for futures and options in the US
The volume of futures and options traded on US exchanges so far this year is up by over 15% on last year, and looks likely to set an all-time record in spite of the terrorist attacks in September, said the US-based Futures Industry Association (FIA).
CME taps Sears to run forex business
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), currently the world’s third-largest derivatives exchange by volume, has appointed Richard E. Sears to a new position as managing director in charge of managing the CME’s foreign exchange business.
Isda frowns on IRS proposal
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) has criticised proposed changes by the IRS to the accounting regulations for notional principal contacts (NPCs).
Icap recovers after WTC attacks
Icap, the word’s largest inter-dealer broker, says that a busy period for its interest rate swaps business during October and November, due to economic uncertainty and volatile interest rates across the globe, helped spur a 22% rise in global revenues,…
Algo to offer Basel II-compliant credit risk solution
Algorithmics, the Toronto-based risk management technology firm, says it is working with its clients to include a credit solution in its suite of products which meets the specific data architecture, data modelling and technology requirements required…
Capital Risk signs with Longitude to offer weather products
New York-based weather risk specialist, Capital Risk, has teamed with Longitude, a developer of financial technology to facilitate new derivatives markets, to develop weather risk management products.
Cognotec selects Radianz to expand customer base
Cognotec, the Dublin-based foreign exchange and money-market trading solutions provider, has signed a three-year contract with US financial services e-network supplier Radianz. The multi-million dollar contract connects Cognotec to RadianzNet extranet –…
Rolfe & Nolan and TruExchange in partnership for STP
Rolfe & Nolan Systems, the UK-based supplier of derivatives technology solutions, and TruExchange, a Massachusetts-based vendor of trading and matching engines for electronic exchanges and derivatives markets, have entered a partnership to provide a…
Asian bond platform goes live
BondsInAsia (BIA), a group formed through the collaboration of BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Reuters, has started live trading on its electronic trading platform for Asian fixed-income securities, BIA Trading…
Isda moves to clarify credit derivatives language
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has moved to further clarify the definition of what constitutes a credit event in the credit derivatives business, in a new paper, 'Supplement relating to successor and credit events', published as a…
Isda appoints head of research
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, has made David Mengle its new head of research, a newly created position. Mengle will be responsible for providing research and analytical support for various Isda derivatives committees and…
BNP Paribas extends derivatives back-end system
French banking group BNP Paribas is extending its Ubitrade Futures and Options back-end system to manage all its global custody and stock-broking activities. This is part of an ongoing process to restructure its futures and options business following the…
Danaharta launches Malaysia’s first CLO
Malaysia’s national asset management company Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad (Danaharta), which is targted at resolving the country’s non-performing loan problem, has issued its first asset-backed securitisation (ABS) worth $81.6 million.
Prime brokerage on Currenex by close of year
Currenex, the online global currency exchange, will make available prime brokerage services to members of its FXtrades forex platform by the close of 2001, according to Lori Mirek, the firm’s New York-based president and chief executive officer.
Reliant to launch new hybrid weather-energy swap
Houston-based Reliant Energy appears to be attempting to take the mantle of industry innovator from troubled Enron by launching a new US natural gas index and associated hybrid swap contract that integrates energy and weather risk – the weather-sensitive…
Liffe confirms weather trading start date
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) has confirmed that it will launch its weather futures contracts on December 10 2001. The contracts will be listed and traded on Liffe Connect, and will be the first exchange-traded…
ING Barings debuts with synthetic CDO in Asia
ING Barings, the investment banking arm of Dutch bancassurer ING, has arranged what it claims to be the first arbitrage synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) transaction managed by a portfolio manager in Asia, in an attempt to cater to the…