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Analytics Strategy from Numerix

Good post from Jim Jockle over at Numerix – main theme is around having an “analytics” strategy in place in addition to (and probably as part of) a “Big Data” strategy. Fits strongly around Xenomorph’s ideas on having both data management and analytics management in place (a few posts on this in the past, try this one from a few years back) – analytics generate the most valuable data of all, yet the data generated by analytics and the input data that supports analytics is largely ignored as being too business focussed for many data management vendors to deal with, and too low level for many of the risk management system vendors to deal with.…

Big Data – What is its Value to Risk Management?

A little late on these notes from this PRMIA Event on Big Data in Risk Management that I helped to organize last month at the Harmonie Club in New York. Big thank you to my PRMIA colleagues for taking the notes and for helping me pull this write-up together, plus thanks to Microsoft and all who helped out on the night.…

Xenomorph News: Chartis Research White Paper: Data Management for Risk in Capital Markets

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Chartis Research White Paper: Data Management for Risk in Capital Markets

Since 2008, the issue of data management for risk has become increasingly important for firms, as they realise that without the right data their view of risk will not be accurate.…

Rutgers Quantitative Finance Summit

I got my first tour around the NYSE trading floor on Wednesday night, courtesy of an event by Rutgers University on Risk. Good event, mainly around panel discussion moderated by Nicholar Dunbar (Editor of Bloomberg Risk newsletter), and involving David Belmont (Commonfund CRO), Adam Litke (Chief Risk Strategist for Bloomberg), Hilmar Schaumann (Fortress Investment CRO) and Sanjay Sharma (CRO of Global Arbitrage and Trading at RBC).…