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The financial crisis exposed shortcomings in performance and risk management practices with many firms taking on excessive risk with scant regard for long-term...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 03 Oct 2011
The financial crisis brought few positives to the world, but perhaps one was a focus on improving risk management on an enterprise-wide basis. However, in the wake of the recent UBS rogue trader scandal, questions abound as to whether the industry has...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 29 Sep 2011
After the credit crisis of 2008 and in light of some embarrassing risk management failures at Société Générale and, more recently, at UBS, boards and partners are asking for a different kind of risk manager. But how much of a technologist or a leader...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 27 Sep 2011
A turbulent economic environment and world events impacting businesses have in recent years highlighted the obstacles related to accurately estimating exposure to entities. Inside Reference Data and Inside Market Data gathered a panel of industry experts...
Inside Reference Data | Feature | Business Entity Data | 09 Aug 2011
The measure of collateral in circulation, which represents the total amount of collateral dedicated to mitigating credit risk in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, dropped during 2009, but that figure appears to have rebounded last year and is likely...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 31 Mar 2011
Forget Fred and Ginger, Lennon and McCartney, Batman and Robin. Risk and performance reporting is the new dynamic duo. Like most of the great double acts in history, the pair have overcome adversity in their rise to the top—as little five years ago,...
Waters | Feature | Performance and Attribution | 28 Feb 2011
Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna takes a critical look at enterprise risk management practices and concludes that the success of such projects is contingent upon data quality.
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 31 Jan 2011
There was a time when a second was the smallest unit of measurement for time. But, in the context of the financial services industry, that seems a lifetime ago. Now, the industry consistently pushes the boundaries of what is technically possible in the...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 23 Sep 2010
Since the market meltdown of late 2007 and the ensuing global recession of 2008 and 2009, risk management as a critical business function has been thrust into the limelight, especially across the sell side. Steve White, RiskCare’s CEO, assesses prevailing...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 19 Aug 2010
One doesn’t become one of the largest, most reputable institutional investment managers on the planet without keeping a firm handle on risk. TIAA-CREF’s plans to develop an enterprise-wide risk management infrastructure were well underway by the time...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 19 Aug 2010
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