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Standard Bank goes live with credit risk management solution
An international bank has gone live with a counterparty credit risk management solution today that will also help it achieve Basel II compliance in key areas of its business. Standard Bank announced that the first phase of its solution on a single global…
RBS debuts trading of electronic inflation swaps
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has launched electronic inflation swap trading within its single-dealer portal on Bloomberg.
Global private equity firms acquire FRS
Two global private equity firms, Kennet Partners and the Carlyle Group have announced the acquisition of regulatory and compliance providers FRS. FRS will continue to provide financial reporting solutions through its suite of applications.
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Money for old smoke
Despite the lack of mandatory, standardised carbon trading in Asia, interest is growing fast. And several trading initiatives are under way, finds Joe Marsh
Weathering power's demand
Using temperature forecasts to predict power demand has some major pitfalls. Here Martin Fischer and Michael Grossman suggest ways to glean more from forecasted temperature data
Jaime Roman, risk managing director, Endesa, Spain
Jaime Roman is chief financial officer and risk managing director at Spanish utility Endesa. Holding a PhD in Electrical Engineering, he was in academia before being approached to join Endesa in 1997
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