trading risk

The bank is generally considered to be among the leaders in systems to control its trading risk.

Salomon most often got business from customers by being willing to take on trading risks.

Pre-Trade - tools to manage trading risk, increase efficiency, and improve performance.

The bridegroom, 33, works at Citigroup in Manhattan, where he analyzes bond trading risks.

Enron, like other energy traders, used an unknown amount of derivatives - financial instruments whose value is determined by underlying securities - to control trading risk.

In 2011 TMR won the Market Facilitator of the year award by the Trading Risk magazine.

Mr. Berkowitz suggested that Mr. Skilling had not clearly disclosed trading risks to investors, analysts, employees and board members.

The company said at the time that it would stop underwriting municipal bonds and that it would scale back its trading risks, particulary in risk arbitrage.

"Our pipelines are strong and customer business is good," said Mr. Sidwell, who added that Morgan Stanley reduced its exposure to trading risk in past weeks.

In 2000, a federal jury awarded him $164.5 million from the brokerage firm Bear, Stearns on his claim that it did not warn him sufficiently of trading risks.

Signy walked back to her small office/quarters and took the precaution of helmet and body armor, none for her limbs, trading risk for freedom of motion.

If you sat me down with Bob Diamond or Stephen Hester and I asked them to explain where all their main trading risks were they wouldn't have a clue.

Mr. Murphy, previously a Wall Street executive, had recently been hired as the director of emerging products at Williams's headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., to help manage its trading risks.

Trading risk is divided into two general categories: (1) Systemic risk affects all securities in the same class and is linked to the overall capital-market system and therefore cannot be eliminated by diversification.

For the last few years, as the problems with derivatives have become more prominent, regulators have been warning financial executives that they must monitor their trading risks as diligently as they brush their teeth.

The potential for losses from derivatives is, in general, far less than the risks of lending, argued Lewis W. Teel, the BankAmerica Corporation executive in charge of controlling trading risk.

Therefore, the trading risks were managed by mere tykes, a few months out of a training program, who happened to know more about Ginnie Mae 8 percent IOs than anyone else in the firm.

The maximum penalty for falsifying financial statements is five years in prison and a fine up to $47,500; insider trading risks up to three years in prison and a fine up to $28,500.

Deryck C. Maughan, chairman and chief executive of Salomon Brothers, called the results "excellent" and said the firm's objective "is to build underwriting and advisory revenues and to maintain effective control of our trading risk."

Taking Huge Positions Salomon, under Mr. Gutfreund's guidance, avoided the worst of those risks while comfortably assuming large trading risks, including taking huge positions based on its opinions of where the markets were heeding.

Douglas E. Harris, a senior policy adviser to Mr. Ludwig, said that the Comptroller's office had become more worried about banks' trading risks after reviewing information the agency gathered in preparation for a House Banking Committee hearing last week.

E-mail messages sent months before Mr. Murphy was dismissed show that he and other Williams employees repeatedly and urgently warned Williams executives that the company had to reduce its trading risks, especially with shaky counterparties like Enron.

Trading Risk stated that "TMR serves a crucial segment of the insurance-linked capital markets and acted as risk transformer on 247 deals in 2010 - representing more than $800mn of limit and almost $150mn in premium".

An entire software as a service market called Energy Trading Risk Management or ETRM has emerged for this market using software such as Triple Point Technology, SolArc, OpenLink and Agiboo.

The company suffered considerable losses when the California utilities crumbled and when Enron filed for bankruptcy protection, said Mr. Murphy, who was in charge of developing financial instruments to mitigate Williams's trading risks until he was dismissed in December 2001.