Risk magazine
Ontario Teachers signs up to DSTi risk management system
Toronto-based Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP), the retirement fund for 247,000 Ontario-based teachers, has selected DST International’s (DSTi) HiRisk package as its new enterprise-wide risk management and analysis software.
CBOT moves to dismiss Eurex lawsuit
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has filed a motion to dismiss a Eurex lawsuit, which alleged the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had violated the US Sherman Antitrust Act.
TFS launches online coal exchange
TFS, the inter-dealer broker of over-the-counter derivatives and physical products, has launched a global web-based dealing platform for the coal markets.
Using trees to grow money
Performance analysis
Wachovia hires institutional foreign exchange dealers
Wachovia Bank has hired two institutional foreign exchange dealers in London, as part of a global drive to increase its institutional forex business.
KWI unveils new energy risk system
KWI, the London-based energy risk technology company, today unveiled a newly developed suite of applications for multi-commodity trading and risk management. The system, known as K2, will replace KWI’s previous flagship product kW3000.
Rabobank to implement SunGard credit risk software
Rabobank will implement Credient MC2, a credit risk measurement package owned by SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, as a cheaper alternative than investing in a new credit system infrastructure.
ABN Amro continues derivatives build-up
ABN Amro has hired two foreign exchange derivatives marketing managers in the latest stage of its ongoing derivatives business expansion.
US merger brings uncertain future for BoA/ Fleet FX staff
Bank of America’s (BoA) $47 billion purchase of FleetBoston Financial should bolster its regional US coverage in foreign exchange. But an overlap in jobs is unavoidable with a bank the size of BoA, analysts told RiskNews ' sister publication FX Week ,…
Hong kong consultancy Risk Latte plans South Korean volatility index
Risk Latte, a Hong Kong business consultancy, plans to launch a volatility index for South Korea in the first half of 2004, according to RiskNews ' sister publication Inside Market Data .
The challenges of diversity
Contents
All your hedges in one basket
Leif Andersen, Jakob Sidenius and Susanta Basu present new techniques for single-tranche CDO sensitivity and hedge ratio calculations. Using factorisation of the copula correlation matrix, discretisation of the conditional loss distribution followed by a…
Using the grouped t-copula
Student-t copula models are popular, but can be over-simplistic when used to describe credit portfolios where the risk factors are numerous or dissimilar. Here, Stéphane Daul, Enrico De Giorgi, Filip Lindskog and Alexander McNeil construct a new,…
Pricing exotics under the smile
Masterclass – with JP Morgan
Benchmarking asset correlations
Basel II stipulates that the asset correlation to be used in calibration of obligor risk weights is 20%. Here, Alfred Hamerle, Thilo Liebig and Daniel Rösch use a parametric model to empirically obtain asset correlations from a large database of…
Weighing the cost of illiquidity
Performance analysis
Latin lovers
Emerging markets
Capital Structure Arbitrage: the past, present and future
Sponsor's Statement
Big systems for small start-ups
Technology
Applied thinking
Profile
Darwin on the dealing desk
New Angles
