Data

Data, data everywhere

Making sense of the vast streams of differently formatted data produced by the financial services industry every day is a recurring nightmare for risk managers and regulators. Efforts are now under way to standardise data formats, with Malaysia setting…

Second-order uncertainty

The financial crisis has drummed home the dangers of basing analysis on unreliable data. Despite its amorphous character, risk managers must begin to increase their focus on second-order uncertainty, argues David Rowe

Mashups take root

The financial crisis revealed many banks did not have a complete view of risk across all parts of their business. Could 'mashups' allow banks to bridge gaps by pulling together data from multiple sources? By Donna Haws

Did You Lock the Door?

Are your outsourcers protecting your customers' data adequately? Here are the most overlooked security issues and how to address them.

China - Meeting the competition

China's financial institutions have realised the need to apply best practice in managing risk, and have been implementing cutting-edge risk management systems. But there are challenges in obtaining reliable data, writes Clive Davidson.

Real option valuation and equity markets

Many non-financial assets can be viewed as ‘real options’ linked to some underlying variable such as a commodity price. Here, Thomas Dawson and Jennifer Considine show that the stock price of a well-known electricity generating company is significantly…

Component proponents

Principal component analysis is a widely used technique in finance but can be problematic when different data sets are grouped together. Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa show how to resolve this problem using a technique from biology called…

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