Technology
Euronext pays CME $7.5m to settle Wagner patent dispute
Pan-European exchange Euronext will pay the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) $7.5 million related to settlement of an indemnification dispute. The dispute revolves around the CME’s $15 million deal in August last year with electronic brokerage eSpeed…
High derivatives data traffic plagues market networks
There are growing fears that market data vendors and their networks may face capacity problems due to a sharp increase in derivatives market data traffic caused by jumps in price updates and data feeds from exchanges.
MBRM buys Cygnifi intellectual property rights
MB Risk Management (MBRM), a London-based financial analytics company, has bought the entire intellectual property rights of JP Morgan spin-off Cygnifi Derivative Services from its bankruptcy trustees.
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
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Software product of the year – Almonde 4
The Risk Awards 2003
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What lies beneath?
Credit derivatives
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Software survey 2003
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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.