People
Buying in, not selling out
Career changes
Gearing up for OTC
South Korea
The balance of power
Prime brokerage
The fast lane
Comment
Op risk loss exercise gets good response ahead of QIS 3
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Reaping the advantages of Basel II
PRACTITIONER ANALYSIS
AIR releases terrorism risk model
DISASTER RECOVERY
CLS currency settlement system goes live
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
US consultancy firm identifies business continuity needs
DISASTER RECOVERY
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Cranks, academics and practitioners
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FAS 133: routine or ruinous?
The Association of Finance Professionals, a 14,000-strong group of corporate treasurers and finance officials, gave Risk an exclusive look at its just-completed member survey on the implementation and consequences of FAS 133. Two years after the…
Global derivatives rankings 2002
For Risk’s 11th annual inter-dealer rankings, we have refined our categories and polled hundreds of market participants to reveal which firms are the best in the business. Introduction and rankings compilation by John Ferry, with additional research by…
Lazard hires Stonehill to build capital markets business
The investment banking unit of New York-headquartered Lazard has hired Charles Stonehill as London-based global head of its capital markets businesses, a newly created position.
Deutsche hires FX quant Pillitteri
Deutsche Bank has hired Giovanni Pillitteri as a London-based quant for its foreign exchange structured trading team.
Ex-Aquila weather head says reinsurers are still backing his team
Five reinsurance companies that invested in troubled energy company Aquila’s weather business, which closed earlier this month, are likely to retain their partnerships with the old weather trading team headed by Ravi Nathan, former chairman of the…
DrKW recruits London-based credit derivatives flow trader
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking arm of Germany’s Dresdner Bank, has hired Paul Lewitt as director and head of credit derivatives flow trading based in London. The London hire follows a ramp-up of DrKW’s credit derivatives…