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Kiodex adds forex capability to energy trading platform
Kiodex, a New York-based energy risk management technology company, has released an updated version of its flagship web-based platform, the Kiodex Risk Workbench. Enhancements include a foreign exchange risk management module, new value-at-risk and…
Egar fends off competitors to grab Sberbank risk management contract
The Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (Sberbank), Russia's largest bank, has selected Egar Technology’s Focus product for its trading, treasury, operations and risk management needs. Egar Technology, a New York-based supplier of trading and risk…
SuperDerivatives reaches out to buy-side with new interface
SuperDerivatives, a London-based company offering pricing systems for currency options, has added a ‘buy-side’ interface for its currency options pricing system.
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.
SunGard snaps up Caminus for $160 million
Pennsylvania-based integrated IT service provider SunGard is to buy US energy software company Caminus for about $160 million in an all-cash deal. Upon completion – expected within two months – Caminus will become an operating unit of SunGard Trading and…
Sponsor's article > The role of correlation
David Rowe surveys recent research on the role of correlation between probability of default and recovery rates, as well as among default probabilities.
KWI head dismisses Caminus/SunGard threat
David Bucknall, chief executive of KWI, the London-based energy risk management technology firm, today told RiskNews that SunGard’s purchase of Caminus, KWI’s New York-based competitor, amounts to “a marriage of two dinosaurs”. Earlier today Pennsylvania…
Knowing when the price is right
Volatile markets have led to a change in risk procedures, with VaR and manager-led stop/loss strategies being favoured over automated controls
Technology platform allows outsourcing of IT functions
hemisphere adds software range to its tech services