Perspectives

In this excerpt from Energy Risk, Rashed Haq, vice president, Sapient Global Markets, explains how an analytical market-based approach can improve decision-making and reduce risk for commodity firms.

Physical Portfolio Optimization: Improving Margins in a Tight Market

Addressing local and global regulatory requirements continues to grow more challenging, particularly as global mandates have different requirements in terms of what and how information is collated and reported. Amidst this regulatory complexity, there is one common element firms can leverage to effectively manage and execute compliance--data. In this issue of CROSSINGS, we look at the various ways in which firms can identify, manage, visualize, analyze and report on data to meet regulatory obligations--and transform the business.

CROSSINGS - Spring 2013 Edition

One of the industry's most comprehensive guides to the latest capital and commodity market terminology, the Glossary includes a comprehensive list of names, phrases and acronyms that you won’t find anywhere else.

2013 Glossary of Financial Terms

This white paper reviews the current approach to executing Triparty repo transactions, discusses the benefits of automation, delineates some of challenges facing borrowers, lenders and clearing banks and, finally, suggests that an automated approach would help address many of the Fed’s current and emerging recommendations.

Automation Opportunities in Triparty Repo

This white paper is an Evaluation of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) Library as a Tool in Designing and Coding Asynchronous Applications

Reactive Extensions

The IronPython DLR engine and .NET DLR (dynamic language runtime) can be combined with the rich UI capabilities of Silverlight to create an application that provides the end user with more control than ever before. This paper illustrates the concept using a capital markets blotter as a sample implementation.

Improving End-User Control Through DLR Integration with Silverlight

Our fall 2012 edition of CROSSINGS highlights some of the key themes impacting the capital and commodity markets and includes articles that address our changing regulatory landscape.

Download CROSSINGS - The Journal of Trading and Risk Management

This whitepaper is a detailed study of XACML technology and a step-wise approach for incorporating this technology in various enterprise applications.

Extending XACML Access Control Architecture

Automating trade documentation processes has long been a challenge for financial market participants looking to increase rates of straight-through-processing (“STP”) and reduce operating costs. Emerging regulation for the over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivative markets demands even greater controls for pre- and post-trade documentation.

Download Thunderhead.com - Trade Documentation Solutions

In derivatives trading, collateral is posted against trades to act as insurance and protect against a default. This collateral is almost always in the form of cash or highly liquid securities. Presently, regulators are requiring the majority of over-the-counter derivatives contracts to move to a central clearing model. As a result, the clearing system will require several trillion dollars in additional collateral.

Download Collateral Transformation: Liquidity and Market Risk Issues