Risk magazine
Risk Awards 2009
Last year saw the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, unprecedented volatility in the market and capital injections into financial institutions by governments across the globe. Risk magazine recognises those institutions that continued to…
Corrosive feedback
Innovations create their own feedback loops, and many of these are dangerous. Risk managers need to pay greater attention to such effects in the future, argues David Rowe
Time for change
The US has been at the centre of the storm raging through financial markets over the past year, and the country's regulators have been tasked with stemming the fallout from the crisis. John Dugan, comptroller of the currency, discusses the regulatory…
A time for special FX
Dealers are beginning to think a lot more seriously about credit-adjusting the prices they quote on foreign exchange derivatives. How are they calculating this, and how are clients responding to the move? By John Ferry
Go east
Once on the periphery of risk management technology, Asia has become the focus for research and development of risk and trading systems. Various technology vendors have bolstered their activities in the region, but what is driving the move? Clive…
Crossing the floor
The inflation market has experienced a severe dislocation, with breakevens plunging during October and November. It has left dealers scrambling to hedge their exposures to 0% floors embedded in structured notes. By Duncan Wood