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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
Data centre virtualisation projects have a ripple effect throughout an organisation’s infrastructure and operations. Before embarking on data centre virtualisation deployments, there are a number of considerations which must be made. Collapsing multiple physical devices into software affects the people and processes supporting the data centre. Therefore, enterprises should thoroughly evaluate how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring tools and security strategies will need to change.
Banks need to start being more aware when it comes to the matter of rogue trading. This needs to be for the long term rather than just trying to appease staff, investors and the media in the short term. The preventative methods should be ongoing and a consistent process. It is no longer sufficient to just merely comply with regulation as this has clearly not worked in the past, as this report will outline. Instead, the financial industry needs to wake up to the fact that rogue trading events have occurred and will occur if the organisation’s approach does not change.
Adopting a comprehensive approach to managing technology assets and resources has never been more important. However, using disparate IT related information that spans across the enterprise and converting it into useful and meaningful information may not be an easy task by any means.
FX markets around the world have withstood the events of the past eighteen months surprisingly well. Prior to the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the total daily volume of FX trades had been steadily growing.
There has been a surge of interest over the past year in finding ways to decrease the power, cooling and space requirements of the data centre. Hardware accelerators are billed as one of the technologies that may be able to assist this. Typically hardware accelerators are far more power efficient than CPUs and due to the fact that they exploit multiple levels of parallelism, they offer vastly increased processing power.
The proliferation of low latency data feeds supporting the growing algorithmic trading market is one of the main drivers for what many people are calling CEP. The extent to which CEP platforms are actually being used and installed within the financial industry is fiercely debated between various reports, press releases, conferences and blogs.
Data management and data cleansing is one of the most challenging and most ignored problems within the financial markets industry. The issue caused by the quality of data is no more pronounced that with the risk modelling and management departments.
In addition to personnel, the expenditure on technology will be one of the most substantial costs that a bank has to allocate for. Similarly it is one of the most important as well, therefore it needs to be researched and selected accordingly to suit the client, product offering as well as the business model.
With the rapid uptake of tools such as Blackberrys, smart phones and laptops in recent years, the notion of ‘out of office’ or ‘mobile’ working practices has significantly taken hold and continues to increase at an alarming pace. This again is not only driven by smart phones which allows mobile or remote workers to push emails and manage documents on the go but with the proliferation of mobile broadband, the boundaries of mobile working and remote access have been pushed to a new high again.
Activity in the energy risk market as been flurried in the wake of the recent global financial meltdown. While all sectors of this risk industry may not be on the up, there are others that are. There are many areas that make up this portion of the risk market, namely: oil, natural gas, carbon, electricity, coal, weather, emissions, freight, base metals and precious metals. This report will focus on the four key big players, which are carbon, gas, electricity and weather.