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Iosif Itkin

Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro

Hedge fund spending - SOR vs. RMS

To be honest, I remain skeptical about the necessity to invest heavily into Risk Management technology. It seems to me that the issue is not in software or hardware but in general assumptions and practices. Let’s take pricing and valuation - server farms with thousands of servers running Monte-Carlo and stress tests for structured products did not...

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Iosif Itkin

Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro

Random thoughts about a recent computer glitch that hit TSX

Most financial systems are designed to handle outages in one or another way. However, even if redundancy is incorporated into the system’s architecture it is not uncommon to see that insufficient attention is paid to actually verifying that it will work out. In our practice, we have encountered situations when no more than eight hours (a single wo...

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Iosif Itkin

Iosif Itkin CEO at Exactpro

Crisis exposes banks' weaknesses towards ERM vendors

Comparing Ernst & Young figures against PRMIA Global Risk Survey results (http://www.prmia.org/globaleventseries/news/20080618.html) Ernst & Young Enterprise-wide risk-reporting process is in place 9% - nearly completed 67% - midway 24% - early stages PRMIA Benchmarks the Role of Enterprise Risk Management in Current and Future Business Pro...

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