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Regulation, risk and reaching nirvana – Harnessing your data assets in the wake of the crisis
Dark Pools of Liquidity – The Risks
Location of Market Risk Personnel
Credit Meltdown Recovery? Harnessing Stress Testing for Effective Risk Control
Determining Best Execution: What Roles Does Transaction Cost Analysis Play?
Establishing Control: Buy-side data management challenges
Navigating the Minefield: An assessment of current credit monitoring and control practices
Risk Management in 2009 – Where do we go from here?
26th November 2009 - London
Sponsored by Patni Computer Systems
Peter L. Bernstein, the author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk and other books, died on June 5th at the age of 90. Bloomberg reported that Bernstein, an economic historian who popularized efficient market theory, died of pneumonia on Friday, the New York Times reported. He was 90 years old and resided in Manhattan.
Most executives recognise the value and importance of Business Intelligence. In the current environment, the ability to analyse the vast quantities of data that banks hold can set one firm aside from their peers. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Gartner ranks BI among the top ten strategic technologies for firms during 2009.
For what is essentially a framework, project management has a wide variety of methodologies, viewpoints and procedures. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a framework that seeks to allow a projects to be managed in much the same way as a portfolio of diverse financial investments.
Low cost development centres, otherwise known as offshoring, is a way of describing the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another such as an operational process. However, in the current economic climate, firms have reputedly been cost cutting and rumours abound that one area affected was offshoring. But the buy-side remains resolute in that it does still see the benefits of offshoring as outweighing the disadvantages.
Straight through processing has long been one of those mythical goals in financial technology. Of course pockets of STP, where the trade lifecycle is more or less ticketless and seamless, do occur-in various asset classes or geographical regions. Swift with its strong European marketshare is the de facto standard for post-trade messaging. However, the FIX Protocol has long had a strong US-base and is heavily used for equity trade execution. The migration of FIX around the globe and to other asset classes, most notably foreign exchange, is a major factor in the march towards STP.
According to reports on Finextra, 
RiskMetrics Group, a provider of risk management and corporate governance services to the global financial community, has announced it is partnering with credit modeling guru, Professor Edward Altman, to develop a new credit risk scoring system.
As institutions shift trading volumes to electronic platforms and internalise trading functions once provided by their broker-dealers, the performance of buy-side trading desks is having a growing impact on investment returns, according to a report on Finextra.
Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase & Co and several other banks have said they have raised more than $19 billion as lenders scramble to extricate themselves from Washington's grip, according to reports on Reuters.
Reports on Finextra reveal that the investment industry's first hedge fund fraud risk certification has been launched by Protean Fraud Risk Appraisal, an independent risk certification firm specialising in the alternative investment sector.