Trading platforms
MiFID: the race to comply
Compliance
Sponsor's article > Mizuho Case Study: Implementing an Integrated, Scalable Risk Management Solution
Risk management never stands still for long. Financial markets are forever evolving, products are gaining complexity, and the sheer number of trades is growing rapidly. Risk management solutions and practices designed for the markets of the past can lack…
Algorithmic trading growth contingent on buy-side uptake
STP: the impossible dream?
Sponsor's article > NIBCapital Case Study: Achieving Integrated Enterprise Risk Management
NIBCapital is an independent merchant bank with a global distribution network. Headquartered in The Hague in The Netherlands, the highly rated bank focuses on northwestern Europe and global clients in selected industry sectors, providing corporate…
Sponsor's article > BNL Case Study: Improving Risk Control and Achieving Capital Savings
Today, with approximately 17,000 employees, 700 branches across Italy, an international presence to support its corporate clients, and a ranking within the top 50 of European banks in terms of market capitalization, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is…
Sponsor's article > Capitalia Case Study: Effective Integration of Market, Credit and ALM
CAPITALIA BANKING GROUP is one of the top five banking organizations in Italy with total assets of EUR155bn. Based in Rome, the group is the product of the merger of several leading Italian financial institutions over the last two years.
Has foreign exchange got 'rithm?
SOFTWARE
Slave to the rithm
algorithmic trading
Koch takes intelligent risk to heart
Case study
The Monte Carlo mindset
There is a rich seam to be mined in the provision of tools to calculate counterparty credit risk. Clive Davidson looks at what's on offer so far, and what could be coming on to the market.
The Monte Carlo mindset
Technology
Algo and Bloomberg release enhanced risk service
Toronto-based Algorithmics and Bloomberg released a new version of Algo Risk, a market and trading risk solution, at Algorithmics' annual user conference being held in Boston, Massachusetts this week.
Bidding principles
Robert Almgren and Neil Chriss show how principal bid programme trades can be priced and evaluated as part of a trading business. By annualising the price impacts and variances of such trades, they construct an information ratio measure that can be used…
RBS selects Algo credit to manage global wholesale credit limits
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has selected Algo Credit to manage its global limits and exposures management from Algorithmics, the Toronto-based provider of risk management software.
Software survey 2003
Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.
Software survey 2003
Survey
Standard Chartered's New Risk Architecture
An enterprise-wide risk engine will better integrate risk measurement with business decisions.
Software survey 2002 |
Some online risk management products failed to live up to expectations last year, but software vendors forge ahead, developing products that support fast-growing markets such as credit derivatives and CDOs, and tools to help banks meet Basel II…
Algo includes S&P for Basel II
Algorithmics is strengthening its credit risk management offering as demand grows for more comprehensive credit solutions. It is integrating a number of Standard & Poor’s credit data products with its analytical tools and developing a new module to help…
Algorithmics launches Algo OpRisk package
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Paribas First To Take Algo's New Ops Risk Module
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