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Systemic Risk: The Mother of All Risk & How Not To Manage It

From an early age one is taught “the bigger they are the harder they fall.” So it is that the TBTF or Too- Big-To-Fail label has taken hold in the lexicon, except that the focus is on the size, not so...

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Will CDS Survive the European Debt Crisis?

Governments and large issuers hate them, regulators wrestle with them and the general public do not have a clue of what they are, but Credit Default Swaps are the cleanest way to hedge credit risk....

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OTC Derivative Volumes Rise: But Do We Know Why?

The Bank for International Settlements reported that OTC derivative volumes increased to a record $708 trillion, up 18% for the first half of 2011. I have some theories on why.

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