Tag Archives: Risk Management
The business of prime broking – an overview of opportunities
To understand better the business of prime broking, there is a felt need to understand the business of hedge funds first, as prime brokers are in their business only because of these hedge funds!
According to Goldman Sachs & Co, the term...
Enhance the Quality of Financial Regulation – the Need of the Hour.
The purpose of any regulation is for solving problems that stakeholder or business alone cannot solve, as well as for making trade-offs among different objectives.
Year 2008 will definitely go down in the history as the year of the greatest...
Collateral management – Latest Developments
Collateral management is no more a back office function.
Thanks to the recent crises in financial markets, it has graduated itself to a core function status driving the very front office function.
Gone are the days of cost centre approach to...
SDRs – Emerging Intermediaries in US Financial Markets
Clarification: For the purpose of this discussion, SDRs are not Special Drawing Rights. They are Swap Data Repositories.
Swap Data Repository, a Financial Markets Intermediary, is an entity that will be expected to maintain a centralized electronic...
Cool Times in risk management?
Introduction Any activity is associated with risk – a loss or gain. Financial risk management is not about avoiding risk. Rather, it is about understanding and communicating risk, so that risk can be taken more confidently and in a better...
Foreign Exchange: Relationships do matter
Relationships do matter in any market – leave alone foreign exchange market. Without such relationship transactions cannot take place. One can easily assign relationship as a key contributor to any increase or decrease in volumes handled by...
The Art and Science of Securing Securities Lending Business
Securities Lending is an OTC market business practice that involves borrowing and lending of securities mainly for the purpose of covering short-sale positions. Sometimes, it is also be used for derivative hedges and dividend arbitrage across...
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