Algorithmics

Coping with complexity

The demand for risk-based technology has never been higher due to changing business practices, growing regulatory burdens and burgeoning demand for cross-asset class products. But new entrants can still gain market share in niche areas.

Risk and responsibility

A growing number of banks are producing sustainability reports detailing their environmental and socially responsible initiatives. Is this just slick PR or has sustainability become an important risk management consideration? Clive Davidson investigates

A consolidating market

Operational risk software vendors say the market is shaping up, but is this view still too optimistic? By Dianne See Morrison

M&As spark op risk software shuffle

LONDON AND NEW YORK – Mergers and acquisitions are hotting up again in the op risk software industry. Two acquisition announcements in June have set tongues wagging on both sides of the Atlantic about who the next targets will be, and which potential…

The consolidation machine keeps rolling

Algorithmics, a name that has become synonymous with driving the development of risk management practices and technology, was acquired by the Fitch Group in January this year. Victor Anderson talks to Andy Aziz, Algo's vice-president of buy-side…

FitchRisk to drop Algo op risk product

NEW YORK -- An executive from FitchRisk, the New York-based risk management software firm, has told Operational Risk that the firm plans to drop Algorithmics’ op risk software offering in the wake of its purchase of the Toronto-based software firm.

Fitch to acquire Algorithmics

Fitch Group announced today that it is to acquire Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management. The transaction, valued at $175 million, is expected to close in January 2005. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.

Algorithmics rolls out Basel II tool

Algorithmics, an enterprise risk management solutions specialist, and FRS, a global provider of regulatory and financial reporting solutions, have entered into an agreement to deliver regulatory reporting within the Algo Capital solution.

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.

Algorithmics assesses its op risk market

Demand for third-party operational risk management applications is growing steadily, but there is still no sign that there will be a dramatic uptake in the near future, says David Syer, director for operational risk at Toronto-based risk management…

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