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There’s never been a better time to get involved with the award-winning Santander (voted ‘World’s best bank’ by Euromoney magazine) and we’ve got big plans for the future as an exc... more>> Jobs
Exclusive: Head of Internal Audit – Banking Experience Req’d
PERMANENT - London - City - £60K - £70K Bonus Benefits
We are exclusively recruiting for the London Branch of a European Bank looking to recruit a Head of Internal Audit to provide assurance to Senior Management and the Audit Committee, including appropriate information on any major risk exposure and the progress made in implementing action to manage exposure effectively. Reporting to the MD and managing a small team your duties will include: more >>
Senior Internal Auditor
TEMPORARY - London - City - Limited
Large Utilities company based in the City require an experienced Qualified Internal Auditor to carry out some risk based and consultancy assignments. Drafting terms of reference, audit planning, field more >>
OPS CONTROL MANAGER
PERMANENT - London
An exciting opportunity has arisen at a leading London Investment Bank for a specialist to join their Emerging Markets Operations Risk and Control team.
The successful candidate will be product or more >>
Fund of Funds Risk Associate, London
PERMANENT - London
My Client, a boutique Fund of Funds, is looking to take on exceptionally bright, quantitative junior banking professionals or graduates to join their Risk team. This position requires someone with an more >>
Market Risk project Analyst VP
PERMANENT - London - City - benefits
Due to exceptional growth a top tier investment bank requires a VP level Market risk project analyst to work alongside risk managers and MRP colleagues.
Working within a team you will be responsible more >>
Change Management - Product Control
PERMANENT - London
This role falls within Product Control’s Change Management team. The role is for an experienced Business Analyst to work on projects for the investment bank, and specifically to oversee the delivery o more >>
C# Analyst / Developer - Credit or Market Risk
TEMPORARY - London - City
My client, a leading Investment Bank, currently require a highly proficient C# Analyst/developer to join their team for a 6 month contract. Candidates should have extremely strong C# development exper more >>
Rates Exotics Risk Analyst
PERMANENT - London
Our client is a leading Global Financial Services firm with operations in more than 50 countries who currently seek a Risk Analyst to join the Risk Management team, based in London.
Responsib more >>
Equities product controller
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
A leading international Investment Bank is looking to increase its trading frequency moving into 2010 and are therefore looking to expand their product control function... more >>
Commodities Product Controller
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
A leading global Investment Bank that is presently enjoying a period of extensive growth is looking to build up its commodities trading and product control... more >>
Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst
TEMP TO PERM - London - City - per annum
Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst 1year Banking. Our client a global investment bank is seeking a Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst to review the full-range of financial... more >>
Senior Internal Auditor
TEMPORARY - North London
Our client, an instantly recognisable leisure brand, is looking to recruit a high calibre individual to join its Audit function.
The role is one that requires the individual to have complete adapta more >>
Solvency 2 - Senior Analyst, London
PERMANENT - London
A leading financial institution is looking for a Senior Analyst with an insurance background to work within their Solvency 2 & Pensions Risk Team. An ideal candidate would be a credit and/or market ri more >>
VP - Operational Risk Manager, London
PERMANENT - London
Our client, a Global Financial Services Provider currently seek an Operational Risk Manager to join the Risk management and monitoring team, who provide an independent assessment of control and risk i more >>
Associate - Credit Risk Analysis (Hedge Funds), London
PERMANENT - London
A global financial services firm is looking to hire an Associate - Credit Risk Analysis (Hedge Funds)
You will be responsible for protecting the company from losses resulting from bankruptcy or def more >>
Risk Consultant (ICAAP)
TEMPORARY - London - City
Our client based in Canary Wharf are looking for a Risk Consultant for a period of 6 months starting Monday 30th November. The candidate will be responsible for calculating Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 requ more >>
Market Risk Project Manager
TEMPORARY - London - City
Our client, a highly reputable global investment bank, is seeking an experienced Market Risk professional who is able to demonstrate previous employment within a front office environment of a top tier more >>
Credit Risk Reporting - London
TEMPORARY - London
This European investment bank with over 150 years of history and still with a reputation for innovation is looking for a candidate with experience of Counterparty Credit Risk reporting within banking more >>
Emerging Markets Product Controller
PERMANENT - London
This top tier Banking giant is currently seeking an exceptional Product Controller to join their established Emerging Markets Team. The main function is to report and control the performance and tradi more >>
Junior Risk Analyst, Rates
PERMANENT - London
Our client is a leading institution who is currently looking for a Junior Risk Analyst, Interest Rate products to be responsible for assisting in the enhancement of the existing risk management tools more >>
News & Press
The Risk Management Recruitment Landscape 2008/9
During early summer 2008 GRS surveyed two hundred people responsible for hiring risk professionals globally. Our objective was to map recruitment trends in this specialist market and provide a definitive study of salary levels.
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S&P Report Examines How Parent Bank Ownership In Emerging Europe Can Mitigate Sovereign Risk
LONDON June 4, 2008--Foreign direct investment in emerging Europe's financial sectors has expanded dramatically since the mid-1990s, particularly from Western Europe. A new Standard & Poor's report published today, titled "Friends In High Places? Foreign Bank Ownership And Emerging Europe Sovereign Ratings," examines to what extent, in the event of a crisis, foreign bank ownership can mitigate the risk of financial sector contingent liabilities for emerging European sovereigns. more >>
Failing Operational Risk Systems To Fuel Major New IT Investment
London, Friday 25 April - Financial institutions are forecast to increase their IT spending by up to 25% during the next 12-18 months, according to a recent survey by Ernst & Young. more >>
Riskdata Appoints New Managing Director for EMEA
London - 15th April 2008 - Riskdata, the leading provider of risk management solutions to the worldwide alternative investment marketplace, has announced the appointment of Rachel Rubenstein as Managing Director, EMEA, leading the company's sales team across the region. She joins Riskdata from Axioma Inc, a risk management and optimisation company, where she was Sales Director. more >>
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Recruiters
Citifocus
Citifocus is a highly successful recruitment consultancy specialising in the financial services sector. We focus on temporary and permanent recruitment in the front and middle office and operational areas of fund management, investment banking, custody and clearing, corporate and commercial banking, hedge funds and stockbroking. We service vacancies at all levels ranging from junior clerical, up to and including, senior executive personnel.
Selby Jennings
Selby Jennings recruits throughout Europe, the US and Asia for Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Fund Management, Brokerages, Corporate Finance Boutiques, Energy Trading Houses and Financial Consultancies into the following areas across all asset classes: Analysis, Development, Marketing, Origination, Quant Analysis, Quant Development, Research Analysis, Risk Analysis, Risk Control, Risk Management, Sales, Structuring, Trading.
Employers
Abbey
There’s never been a better time to get involved with the award-winning Santander (voted ‘World’s best bank’ by Euromoney magazine) and we’ve got big plans for the future as an exciting programme of growth and innovation continues. We’re changing and growing fast but we’re not content, we constantly strive to be the best.
Bank of America
Bank of America is at the forefront of many of the industry's largest and complex deals, and we have more clients than any other financial services company in the world.
Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services. With a presence in many countries dating back more than 100 years, Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.
Dresdner Kleinwort
Dresdner Kleinwort operates an integrated business model, the elements of which are; leading capital markets expertise, an international cross-border advisory platform, innovative risk management solutions across all asset classes, strength in the home markets of Germany and the UK, with an international presence and capability in key product areas to support a global client base.
Dubai International Financial Centre
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is an onshore hub for global finance. It bridges the time gap between the financial centres of Hong Kong and London and services a region with the largest untapped emerging market for financial services. In just three years, over 600 firms have registered at the DIFC. They operate in an open environment complemented with world-class regulations and standards.
Fitch Ratings
At Fitch Ratings we rely on the diverse skills and backgrounds of our staff to deliver solid credit opinions. Through Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, we provide worldleading products and services to offer market participants greater insight into the growing complexity of the credit markets to enable them to make more timely and informed business decisions.
Guidepoint Global
Guidepoint Global is an independent research firm that delivers customized research tools to our clients to facilitate their analysis of products, markets, and industries. We provide our clients with access to thousands of thought leaders in various fields through our Network of Advisors, a consortium of consultants comprised of eminent thought leaders, researchers, regulatory experts, and industry professionals.
Jefferies
Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York with more than 20 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory company, with offices on six continents. The company is a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Moody's Analytics
Moody's Analytics is a leading provider of research, data, analytic tools and related services to debt capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO).
Moody's Investors Service
Moody's Investors Service's ratings and analysis track debt covering more than 100 sovereign nations, 11,000 corporate issuers, 26,000 public finance issuers, and 110,000 structured finance obligations. Moody's is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO).
Best Selling Risk Books
The International Treasurer's Handbook 2009 by
Category: Risk Management
The International Treasurer's Handbook is an essential guide to international corporate treasury and banking. Its content is reviewed and updated each year for its extensive readership of treasury, risk and finance professionals and consultants. The 19th edition will provide you with a comprehensive source of information with detailed articles on technical guidance, key strategies and policies to support you in international projects. Benefit from the handbook's extensive reference sections, including: - Treasurer's companion: keeps you up to speed on best practice guidelines and fram.....
The Asia Treasurer's Handbook 2009 by
Category: Risk Management
The Asia Treasurer's Handbook focuses on the emerging and growing market of the Asia Pacific region. It incorporates the structure and articles of global relevance from the International Handbook. The third annual edition has once again been reviewed and updated by experienced practitioners to ensure the content is accurate and comprehensive for commercial activity within the Asia Pacific region. The Treasurers' Companion section includes articles giving an Asian perspective on: - taxation - developments in accounting - payment systems - investing surplus cash - trade finance.....
Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting, 3rd edition by Bernd Scherer
Category: Risk Management
This revised third edition provides you with: key concepts and methods to implement quantitatively-driven portfolio construction; knowledge of satellite investing, estimation error heuristics, scenario optimisation, mean variance investing, Bayesian methods, budgeting active risk, non-normality and multiple manager allocation; practical applications and accessible problem-solving skills; quantitative analysis that is supported by extensive examples, tables and charts to help practitioners adopt the subject matter in their day-to-day work. The new chapters bring you up-to-date informatio.....
Offshore Risk Assessment: Principles, Modelling and Applications of Qra Studies by
Category: Risk Management
"Offshore Risk Assessment" was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for some years in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions. This updated and expanded second edition has been informed by a major R&D programme on offshore risk assessment in Norway (2002-2006). It starts with a thorough discussion of risk analysis methodology with subsequent cha.....
Mastering Collateral Management and Documentation by
Category: Risk Management
In response to the continuing and growing use of collateral by banks and other financial institutions, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. This practical guide provides negotiators with a clear, concise explanation of the topic, from an operational perspective and with particular focus on the five ISDA Credit Support Documents. Collateral is now big business. In January 2001 the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) calculated that between US$175-200 billion was pledged as collateral to protect credit exposure in the derivatives market. The authors esti.....
Market Risk Analysis: v. 3 by Carol Alexander
Category: Risk Management
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, "Pricing, Hedging and Trading Financial Instruments" forms part three of the "Market Risk Analysis" four volume set. This book is an in-depth, practical and accessible guide to the models that are used for pricing and the strategies that are used for hedging financial instruments, and to the markets in which they trade. It provides a comprehensive, rigorous and accessible introduction to bonds, swaps, futures and forwards and options, including variance swaps, volatility indices and their futures and options, to stochastic vol.....
Market Risk Analysis: Practical Financial Econometrics v. 2 by Carol Alexander
Category: Risk Management
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, "Practical Financial Econometrics" forms part two of the "Market Risk Analysis" four volume set. It introduces the econometric techniques that are commonly applied to finance with a critical and selective exposition, emphasising the areas of econometrics, such as GARCH, cointegration and copulas that are required for resolving problems in market risk analysis. The book covers material for a one-semester graduate course in applied financial econometrics in a very pedagogical fashion as each time a concept is introduced an empir.....
Bank Asset and Liability Management by Moorad Choudhry
Category: Risk Management
Banks are a vital part of the global economy, and the essence of banking is asset liability management (ALM). This book is a comprehensive treatment of an important financial market discipline. A reference text for all those involved in banking and the debt capital markets, it describes the techniques, products and art of ALM. Subjects covered include bank capital, money market trading, risk management, regulatory capital and yield curve analysis.Highlights of the book include detailed coverage of: liquidity, gap and funding risk management; hedging using interest rate derivatives and credit d.....
A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard M. Bookstaber
Category: Risk Management
Inside markets, innovation, and risk why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup and a member of some of the world's largest hedge funds, from Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think. The very things done to make markets safer, have, in fact, created a world that is far more dangerous.From the 1987 crash to Citigrou.....
Risk Management for Insurers: Risk Control, Economic Capital and Solvency II by Doff Rene
Category: Risk Management
This new user-friendly book will help the reader to quickly get to grips with risk management terms and techniques and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry. Risk Management for Insurers is an accessible reference for the whole insurance industry, identifying and discussing how to measure and manage seven major risk types such as: Market risk, including interest rate and equity risk; Credit risk; Liquidity risk; Non-life risk; Life risk; Operational r.....
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