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The Case for Quality Data

March 31, 2008 - While data management experts regularly promote the importance of clean data to financial firms, quantitatively measuring the effects that faulty data has on an enterprise can be difficult.

Sovereign Wealth Risk

March 10, 2008 - Market observers are voicing concerns that hedge fund problems may spill over into sovereign wealth funds, which are seeking to juice their returns by putting money in high-risk alternative investments.

Risk Conquers All?

February 18, 2008 - As securities firms see their in-house risk controls compromised and banks are forced to take massive write-downs, risk management services companies like RiskMetrics are benefiting from the capital markets’ desire for security.

Resolving the Corporate Actions Quagmire

February 4, 2008 - The automation of corporate actions may finally be reaching critical mass: IT spending is on the rise and Swift’s efforts to standardize corporate actions messaging on the ISO 20022 format are being embraced.

Is Wall Street Listening to Risk Systems?

December 17, 2007 - Financial institutions have invested in ever-more sophisticated tools for gauging and controlling risk exposures--now they have to trust the measurements and improve their management practices.

MiFID: In With a Whimper?

October 22, 2007 - A litany of unresolved issues and slow-to-adopt member states may mean that the full impact of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is not felt for some time.

Managing Risk in an E-trading World

June 25, 2007 - A recent Morgan Stanley settlement with the SEC points up the need to address emerging risks and compliance issues in automated trading.

Credit Derivatives Unknowns

May 28, 2007 - At a symposium on credit derivatives, some of the best minds in the business admitted they don't know all the answers, which is probably a good thing.

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