Technology
Cell mates
Traders love spreadsheets. But complex deals can quickly outgrow a sheet developed on the fly. Since traders won’t abandon their favourite tools, Stuart Cook and Tony Hughes of The Structure Group look at how firms can control their use
Abbey National Distributes Risk
A distributed computing system has solved the bank’s overnight batch processing needs. Next up: boosting intra-day processing capacity.
Nasd to broaden bond information
Credit tech
Killing two birds with one stone
Counterparty risk
The modelling business
Modelling
Op risk modelling for extremes
SMALL SAMPLE MODELLING
Software product of the year – Almonde 4
The Risk Awards 2003
Job moves
People
What lies beneath?
Credit derivatives
Technology briefs
Systems
Software survey 2003
Survey
Enterprise-wide risk management: Knitting together bank risks
Thanks to recent events, bank risk managers are placing more emphasis on integrating counterparty and credit risk into other portions of their enterprise-wide risk management systems.
Credit and credibility
Credit risk modellers have made giant strides, but they still have to convince regulators that they can make the world a safer place.
The hunt for value in the European markets continues
The market is continuing on its volatile, rocky road and shows no sign of letting off as the year ends
Capturing value from energy supply and trading
New Frontiers
GNI selects SunGard’s Panorama
London-based GNI Fund Management has signed up to use SunGard Trading and Risk Systems' real-time risk management product, Panorama, for its portfolio management and risk reporting activities. GNI Fund Management, which has $529 million under management,…
Problem trades are ‘eating up forex profits’, says SunGard
Nearly a quarter of FX transaction profits are eaten up by ‘exceptions’, or problem trades, according to a survey of 500 financial institutions. The lost margin is a result of staff and compensation costs, said SunGard ePI, the processing unit of US…
onExchange confirms it was bidder for Rolfe & Nolan
onExchange, the US back-office technology company, today confirmed market rumours that it made an offer to buy out UK-based financial technology company Rolfe & Nolan. Although Rolfe & Nolan rejected onExchange’s conditional, indicative offer of 85p per…
Lehman's prime brokerage to offer clients RiskMetrics tools online
Lehman Brothers' global prime brokerage unit will offer RiskMetrics' RiskManager tool to hedge funds, fund of funds and investors via its website, LehmanLive. The RiskManager service features value-at-risk, stress testing and 'what-if' scenario…
Daiwa signs up to use Reech Capital's valuation services
Dublin-based fund administrator, Daiwa Securities Trust and Banking (Europe), has signed a deal with Reech Capital, the London-based risk management technology company, to provide it with regular mark-to-market valuations of the over-the-counter (OTC)…
Merrill Lynch takes Fenics
Merrill Lynch today said it will deploy the Fenics FX options pricing software from New York-based broker and vendor GFI Group in 100 global positions. Fenics replaces Merrill’s existing in-house pricing platform for FX options.