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Dramatic changes in market conditions, budgetary constraints, the evolving nature of risk within the financial organization, as well as the requirements of increasing regulation in the global market place have resulted in a totally different environment for risk systems.

Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets. The key focus of the book is the emerging domestic and international emissions trading schemes, project based trading programmes, and the developing greenhouse gas markets.

This is the first book of its kind on the market and is aimed at collateral management professionals in the OTC derivatives markets.

Operations management is becoming critical among the success factors of financial institutions. Banking/ Trading - Operations Management focuses on the particular challenges and new trends the operations manager has to address, which involves a balancing act between cost optimization and growing business requirements.

This book responds to a growing demand for mutual funds. This timely collection of original papers focuses on changes of international investment in Europe, the US and New Zealand. Using a fresh approach, innovative techniques and various models this book assesses performance and provides an understanding of mutual funds on an international level.

An up-to-date look at the latest thinking on Corporate Governance, capturing the wealth of experience of some 60 company secretaries in the world's top companies, whose job it is to make corporate governance work. A must for anyone who has ever had to make tough decisions on their board and wondered how their peers might have done it.

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task. Real Options offer the link to value and the strategic opportunities that lie in an increasingly dynamic landscape

The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.

As we enter the early 1990s, the second phase of global deregulation gains momentum and cross-border activity in the securities markets has never been greater. As pressure on margins increases, there is a new emphasis on trading and settlement systems - as important as the innovation of financial products was in the 1980s.

The book analyzes the stock market developments in all GCC countries, focusing on the recent boom and bust episodes in five out of the seven GCC equity markets - one of the major events in emerging markets this decade. The lessons from this period will constitute a reference for emerging equity markets for decades to come.

Targeted towards institutional asset managers in general and chief investment officers, portfolio managers and risk managers in particular, this practical book serves as a comprehensive guide to quantitative portfolio optimization, asset allocation and risk management.

Foreign Exchange in Practice , now in its 3rd edition, is the single reference to the forex market any financial practitioner needs to have. The 3rd edition contains a substantial amount of new content particularly with regard to financial mathematics, interest rate swaps, option pricing and applications of option derivatives and Value at Risk.

This book presents practical Risk Management and Trading applications for the Electricity Markets. Various methodologies developed over the last few years are considered and current literature is reviewed. The book emphasizes the relationship between trading, hedging and generation asset management.

Growth in the derivatives market has brought with it a greater volume and range of interest rate dependent products. A study of the evolution of interest rate modelling theory places these models in the correct mathematical context, allowing appreciation of their key assumptions, concepts and implications.

Written by an experienced risk manager, this innovative new book explores the core concepts of risk management, including in-depth coverage of its scope, rationale, and practical applications. This is an excellent starting point for a new generation of readers who increasingly need a both practical and conceptual understanding of risk management.

Liquidity Risk is a comprehensive treatment of the topic focusing on the nature of the risk, problems that arise in asset and funding liquidity and mechanisms that can be developed to monitor, measure and control such risks.

The derivatives market has been the fastest growing area of financial activity in the past few years. This best-selling text is ordered in dictionary format, taking each financial instrument, market or related concept and giving an analysis together with diagrams where applicable.

The New Global Regulatory Landscape provides a benchmark tool for financial intermediaries and Institutional Investors. Covering 24 international regulations across the UK, Europe, Asia/Pacific and the USA, the authors provide practical compliance tips for financial intermediaries and guidance on best practice for investors.

Erik Banks seeks to explore the qualitative and quantitative aspects of risks attributable to financial instruments in today's markets, which are so much a part of banking business throughout the world.

Energy Price Risk was inspired by the success of the courses Tom James has been running in global energy and commodities trading and price risk management. It is the practitioner's guide to optimizing company performance using the correct price risk strategies and tools.