New York Institute of Finance Partners with Gateway

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On February 24, 2016

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) announced today that it is enhancing its service capabilities in risk management by means of a partnership with Gateway Partners, LLC. NYIF will offer comprehensive risk management services to asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, institutional investors, commercial, retail and investment banks both in the United […]

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Financial Engineering and Structured Products

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On November 10, 2015

Financial engineering is the quantitative methodology used for development of solutions to financial problems. It is often used for development of new financial products, such as an existing basket of vanilla financial products, or combining features of different financial products in a hybrid financial product, in order to enhance the yield or changing the risk […]

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Methodologies of Margin Setting for Exchanges

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On November 5, 2015

Exchanges are centralized places where certain securities, commodities, derivatives, and other financial instruments are traded. In order to facilitate trading among buyers and sellers of these products, exchanges take the central position of being the counterparty to both buyers and the sellers of the product. This is done to remove the possibility of disputes that […]

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Coupling of Market Risk, Credit Risk, and Liquidity Risk

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On November 1, 2015

The main risks of any financial product are market risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk. When we reference credit risk, we are including both market-based credit risk, where widening of credit spreads is indicative of credit quality deterioration, as well as counterparty credit risk. This may be caused by the loss in the market value […]

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Do Market Rallies Necessarily Equate to Lower Volatility?

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On August 27, 2015

As a former floor trader, I find the market movement of the last week to be very intriguing. China concerns saw the world financial markets tumble, while the rebound of the last two days seems to suggest that the markets overreacted. The VIX spiked to over 50 during the recent turmoil before retreating to a […]

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Stock Market Quakes on China Fears

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On August 24, 2015

Recent Uncertain Stock Markets and Associated Event Risk In the past several months, there have been fears in global financial markets about possible downturns in the economy due to weak global markets. More recently these fears have been associated with the slowdown of Chinese markets as well as the volatility of emerging markets. Global commodity […]

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Combine market, credit and liquidity risk simultaneously

Posted by amirzia106@gmail.com
On April 9, 2015

For a variety of reasons, it is common practice for investment managers to treat market risk separately from credit risk and both of them separately from liquidity risk. Market risk is considered to be carried by securities sensitive to factors such as equity or commodity markets and treasury, Libor and foreign exchange rates. Similarly, […]

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