Technology
US Treasury applauds industry work on back-up systems
Business Continuity
Learning from experience
Sponsored roundtable
Profile - Southern synergy
South Africa
Iterating cancellable snowballs and related exotics
Cutting edge: Exotic options
Korea and Singapore set the pace
Basel II
Enterprise 2.0: the next generation
A growing number of banks are using Web 2.0 technologies within their risk management, trading and research operations. Clive Davidson looks at how blogs, wikis and podcasts are being applied by financial services companies
Reinventando el fondo
Fondos de hedge funds
The arrogance of hindsight
Some governments are reportedly becoming more active in using derivatives to manage their debt and funding costs. While arguably quite sensible, public distrust and sensationalist journalism present special dangers, argues David Rowe
A successor to VAR?
Regulators may be pressing banks to more rigorously stress test their portfolios, but when it comes to how hedge funds apply the technique, debate remains as to how and what they should be testing. John Ferry reports
Nine banks to build Mifid utility
Nine global securities firms have gone public with plans to create a trade data and market data dissemination platform, to take advantage of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) reforms.