Technology
Doing the groundwork
The start of Reg NMS's pilot phase in July may have led compliance teams at brokerages to believe most of their work is done. But, as Peter Madigan explains, things are just getting started
Full steam ahead for FFAs
Freight derivatives
Dealing with volatility
Sponsored event
Integrating op risk
Basel II
Ahead down under
Basel II
Algo my way
Algorithmic trading
Lagging risk management
The rate of growth in the complexity of new derivatives products is causing a worrisome lag in risk management's ability to keep pace. As credit derivatives markets endure a period of stress, this lag could have serious consequences, argues David Rowe
Credit Suisse expands algorithmic trading business
Credit Suisse has launched its algorithmic trading business, Advanced Execution Services (AES) in seven new markets: Canada’s Venture Exchange, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico and South Africa.
Demystifying the practice of synthetic CDO valuation
Nosheen Khan, vice president, structured credit valuations at Markit, examines the base correlation mapping methods for implying bespoke collateralised debt obligation (CDO) correlations from standard index tranche correlations
Barclays goes online with iShare trading
Barclays Capital is now offering online trading of iShares via its award winning Barx investor solutions platform. Once enabled, clients will be able to instantly click and trade ishares. The benefits of trading on the platform include tighter spreads…
Matchmakers
Post-trade confirmation in the energy market, once slow and prone to error, is becoming increasingly efficient due to the successful rollout of trade confirmation standards. David Watkins looks at how two of the competing standards have developed
Clearing the way
The Futures and Options Association has called on UK power market participants to come forward to help develop the market's structure. Chris Cook proposes an enterprise model that aims to overcome the obstacles to co-operation
UBS launches multistrategy commodity platform
UBS has launched an algorithmic trading platform for commodities, the UBS Commodities Portfolio Algorithmic Strategy System (Comm-PASS).
Keeping the wheels turning
When confronted with business continuity issues, energy giant E.ON used to turn to a printed manual. Now it has introduced a constantly evolving system to deal with BCP challenges. Duncan Wood investigates
Is it really alpha?
Hedge funds often characterise their mission as the pursuit of pure alpha. A growing body of research, however, argues that a significant proportion of observed hedge fund returns are really alternative beta. David Rowe considers the implications for the…