Financial risk is made of three basic types: market risk - FX risk, interest risk and commodity risk; counter-party risk - credit and partner risk; and liquidity risk - risk that the company will not…
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Companies won delays in Dodd-Frank Act requirements to report derivatives trades they use to hedge business risks. The so-called end users, who trade as clients of banks, need the delay to test
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On 15th March, the technical standards supplementing the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) entered into force and affect most corporate treasury departments. According to the
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In September 2012 Citi's chief economist put the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro within 18 months at 90%. These concerns on Greece and the Euro zone have lessened, but they have not gone away.
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AFP's annual risk survey of 327 senior finance and treasury professionalsin November 2012 found that developing a sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain environment is the
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Many organizations define risk as something to avoid. Playing the safest game possible has its merits, but a healthy, detailed definition of your organization's appetite for risk is critical to success in business.
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John Grout at the UK's Association of Corporate Treasurers gave some important perspectives on non financial corporates using Cashflow at Risk in his piece on the ACT web-site:
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The November 2012 article in Treasury & Risk highlighted the increasing focus on risk by boards and the expectations that corporate treasury department have a major role to play. Indeed they suggest that the most pr
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Events like superstorm Sandy are natural triggers for companies' reexamination of their risk preparedness and business resilience planning, but they should also start an internal dialogue about risk culture.
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The recent World Economic Forum Global Risks 2013 report, which is developed from an annual survey of more than 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society that were
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RavenPack, a leading provider of real-time financial news analysis services, has launched a new version of its News Analytics product which, in addition to nearly doubling the number of corporate events tracked, now
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Reval in London, the global provider of a Software-as-a-Service solutions for Treasury and Risk Management, announced it is establishing a local presence in Amsterdam to support major organizations and international
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The perfect tool for the imperfect world of hedging
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Numerix's newest version of LiquidAsset, their solution for independent pricing and risk analysis of debt and derivative instruments, contains expanded functionality and usability.
