Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Siam Bank Selects BWise Platform for GRC
Thailand’s third-largest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), has selected BWise to support its governance, risk management and compliance (GRC)needs.
New FIA Study Suggests Futures Volatility Not Influenced by HFT
Research conducted for the Futures Industry Association by Nicholas Bollen and Robert Whaley at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management suggests that recent trading in 15 futures contracts has not become more volatile, despite increased…
Interactive Data Explores Demand for Country of Risk Information
The data vendor is investigating whether it has access to the data needed to produce country of risk information, after the challenges associated with this category of risk were highlighted during its inaugural Reference Data Advisory Group meeting
Panel Discusses the Intersection of Risk and Regulation
At a panel hosted by SunGard and moderated by The Economist, Wells Fargo's Steve Ellis encouraged firms to look at compliance with a glass-half-full perspective.
IBM Debuts Risk Manager
IBM has announced a new enterprise risk management solution for credit lifecycle management, featuring a dashboard that provides visibility into wholesale credit touchpoints.
Quantifi Tapped for ICE Futures Price-Spread Calculator
The analytics provider has released a new tool for pricing credit index futures listed by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Futures U.S., backing increased demand for exchange-traded futures, which trade more cheaply than OTC derivatives under new global…
Southport Jumps on DealVector's Business Model
Holders of collateralized loan obligations, mortgage backed securities, and other structured credit have been forced into archaic means of locating each other. DealVector wants to bring that communication into the modern age.
Armanta CEO: The Risk Paradigm is Broken
Technology is overrated as a means of performing risk analytics, argues Peter Chirlian, CEO of New Jersey-based analytics platform provider Armanta. It’s the people that do the work; technology is little more than a tool.
CLS Opens Further Asia Presence
CLS Group has announced that it will expand its presence in Asia-Pacific through the opening of an office in Hong Kong.
Bloomberg Integrates LCH.Clearnet's Swaps Margin Calculator
Bloomberg's Professional Service can now directly access LCH's SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (SMART) to determine capital funding requirements for swaps.
SunGard Upgrades Asset Arena InvestOne for ‘Multiple Books of Record’
SunGard has released the latest version of its Asset Arena InvestOne accounting platform and it now has functionality for Multiple Books of Record, as well as the launch of a new operational management and monitoring solution.
Numerix Integrates FVA Framework
The analytics provider has added a new framework for sell sides to calculate funding valuation adjustment (FVA) for arbitrary instrument types, including bespoke instruments with optionality, callability, and triggers such as Bermudan swaptions.
Open Platform: Value at Risk - The New Data Challenge
Following the financial crisis, the industry is reevaluating how it uses and calculates Value at Risk. But more accurate and frequent VaR needs the ability to capture and analyze more frequent underlying data, requiring a new approach to risk data…
Deloitte Study Finds Increased Risk Management Tech Spend
The eighth biennial survey on risk management practices concluded that almost two-thirds, or 65 percent, of financial services firms have upped their risk management and compliance spend. 58 percent say more increases are expected in the next three years.
Anthony Malakian: No Reconciling Dependency on Excel
According to some reports, 70 to 80 percent of reconciliations at major financial institutions still take place through the use of manually intensive, spreadsheet-based platforms. Anthony says that in today’s environment, this is simply unacceptable.
Risk Management a Challenge When Algos Go Rogue
In an article published in May, Waters explored the problematic task of performing market surveillance in automated, high-frequency trading environments. Another challenging area for algorithmic trading is that of risk management, when questions of risk…
AQR's Path to Reconciliation
In order to improve its reconciliations capabilities, AQR Capital decided it needed to replace its legacy reconciliation system, which relied largely on manual processes. The Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund turned to Electra Information Systems for…
Risk Management Budgets to Fall by 2014
Sell-side institutions are likely to spend 25 percent less on risk management by 2014, according to a recent survey by Risk Nation.
SimCorp, AcadiaSoft Partner on Margin Calls
The investment management solutions provider will use AcadiaSoft's MarginSphere instant messaging service, which provides automation of dispute-based processing for collateral issues and exceptions.
The World is at War (Online)
Dealing with the increasing threat from cyberspace.
Risk Management: Time to Get Real
It wasn’t long ago that it was acceptable for capital markets firms to manage their risk on an overnight basis, computing their various measures through lengthy batch processes while the markets slept. But that all changed with the 2008 credit crisis as…
Woodfield Fund Administration Taps Smonik for Reconciliations
Illinois-based Woodfield Fund Administration has chosen back-office solutions provider Smonik Investment Systems' Recon solution to manage its portfolio reconciliations processes.