The biggest ever edition of Euromoney's specialist derivatives and risk management directory will enable risk managers and investors to take advantage of new investment opportunities to hedge risk. Effective derivatives and risk management tools are pivotal to financial institutions' success in challenging times and over 30 chapters of editorial written by senior decision-makers in the marketplace will give you advanced warning of future economic trends, giving you time to adjust your strategy.
The Handbook also charts the rise of emerging market derivatives, credit derivatives, the OTC derivatives market, hybrid capital and interest rate structured products. Explore the predicted future developments of risk management, operational risk and risk management and governance, allowing you to make better informed investment decisions. Market reviews focus on regulation and developments in Asia , Canada , China , India , Portugal , Italy , Japan , Eastern Europe and the US .
Source global contacts in the directory which lists over 1,700 individual contacts from financial institutions, law firms, consultancy and advisory firms, software providers, exchanges and associations. The directory is fully updated and includes direct tel/fax numbers and e-mail addresses for the relevant personnel, making this an essential derivatives and risk management resource in one complete volume.
"Modern risk management, including the widespread and still growing use of derivatives, is a key driver shaping a revolutionary new banking landscape. At the same time, these evolving, more rigorous risk control procedures constitute a sophisticated response to dealing with risks in an increasingly complex landscape."
Prof Dr. Hans J. Blommestein is Head of OECD's Bond Market Programme and PwC Professor of Finance at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Table of Contents:
CROSS-BORDER REVIEWS
- Swap spreads – a longer term view of change and continuous evolvement
- Hybrid derivatives - financial engines of the future
- Energy risk and derivative structuring from the perspective of an energy major
- Hot topics in light exotics - simple yet effective exposures
- Residential property derivatives. The history, progress and parallels with commercial property derivatives
- Coping with tomorrow - innovative FX solutions in the new regulatory environment
- Management of operational risk in foreign exchange
- Operational risk management - the role of insurance
- Appeal for a wide-ranging approach to risk
- Corporate reporting on risk and risk management
- Financial services globalisation: a challenge for regulators
- Derivatives markets and instruments in uncertain times
- Basel II – implementing the new framework in business practices and processes
- The impact of the ongoing risk management revolution on banking
- Establishing the bank of the future in a changing world
- Enterprise risk management – implementation requirements and future trends
- Volatility hedge funds - the history, evolution and imminent revolution
- Value protection of balanced funds: static versus dynamic portfolio insurance
- Energy derivatives – a brief survey
- Evolution of the credit derivatives market: where we were, where we are and where we are going
- ALM strategic options in booking derivatives subject to cash-flow hedges under IAS
- The first ever inflation-linked ETF in the Eurozone – diversification benefits
- Standardising exchange-traded derivatives interfaces
MARKET REVIEWS
- From revolution to evolution: Asia’s FX regime shift
- Issues affecting over-the-counter derivatives in Canada
- The mysterious dragon derivatives market – a growth story
- Risk management in Eastern Europe: raising awareness in emerging markets
- India under the spotlight - an emerging markets financial hub
- Collateralisation: the new rules in practice
- Close-out netting as a risk management tool: Japanese and English law perspectives
- Dutch pension reform – mind the gap
- Derivatives and Portuguese insolvency law
- Derivatives market innovation and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act
- Cooperative educational efforts - key driver of US listed options volume growth
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