Environment-Renewables
Going out on a limb
OM Group
The Hunt For Terrorist Cash
One month after the attacks on Sept. 11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. Now every financial firm in the country is a deputy in the search for terrorist funding.
Op Risk Looks Back... To the 18th Century
The 300-year-old statistical methods of Thomas Bayes are experiencing a renaissance.
Looking to the new horizon
Can a firm cut costs while increasing operational risk controls? This is just one of the many challenges facing the investment industry.
Recovering from record defaults
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Milan’s new collections
Italian securitisation
Credit Crunch!
Clive Horwood
Paths to deregulation
Energy
AIR releases terrorism risk model
DISASTER RECOVERY
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Cranks, academics and practitioners
Emanuel Derman ponders the difficulties in distinguishing among the three
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…
High-frequency trading: how great is the need for speed?
Just how important is speed? Risk managers and traders are weighing the value of high-frequency market data and trading technologies against their costs. Gallagher Polyn examines the debate over using high-frequency data in risk models, and profiles one…
€15bn floods bill unlikely to further hurt insurance sector
Insurers and reinsurers are unlikely to face significant financial difficulties following serious flooding in central Europe that has caused damage worth around €15 billion, according to research by UBS Warburg.
Over-reliance on risk models a danger, says Lawrence
Financial institution risk managers must be wary of relying too heavily on risk models and systems, according to Mark Lawrence, chief risk officer at Australian bank ANZ, speaking at Risk Waters Group’s third annual Risk Australia conference in Sydney…
Evolution Markets launches weather desk
New York-based environmental and energy broker Evolution Markets has returned to the weather derivatives sector with the launch of a weather desk, six years after it brokered its first over-the-counter weather deal.
Aquila finally buries energy trading business
Missouri-based energy trader Aquila today said that it has put the lid on the coffin of its energy trading division, following almost two months of speculation. In June, Aquila unveiled plans to wind down its trading book, but said it was looking for a…
How Japan got it covered
The fast-growing Japanese weather derivatives market is unique in both its product diversity and the range of small business end-users it serves. But where are the big players? Rob Dwyer reports
Waiting for a boom
Weather derivatives