STP on Risk Management

We specialise in the following risk management areas:

IT risk management

Will the technology be running when you need it to? It is technically robust? Do complex calculations and business data cause applications to crash? How will real-time data remain coherent even if your data centre has suffered a disaster? We have implemented many solutions to these problems and treat adherence to addressing these concerns has been a base requirement for much of the founder's work over the last 10 years or so.

Project risk management

Without wishing to write a lecture here, there are core project management approaches that address project risk, and these are best supported by a clear leadership style over the project teams involved.

Financial risk management

Beyond accounting standards and governance approaches, in investment banking there are also the specialist areas of:

• Market risk
• Credit risk

Market risk

STP's founder was globally regarded as UBS's top fixed income 'quant' and risk maths expert for 6 years, and lectured abroad on the subject. He also personally developed real-time international fixed income risk management systems with strong market risk calculations, tools and displays for traders, trading management and risk managers. With 10 years of hands-on programming and business analysis of the fixed income & derivative markets and their quantitative analytics, clearly this section could be expanded.

Credit risk

Credit risk experience includes:

• Managing the Implementation of counterparty credit risk checking tools on the repo trading system at Nomura International
• Providing the IT support to the Credit Trading Desk at Nomura International including redesigning the OTC option systems used in Nomura's front, middle and back offices
• Managing the IT work-streams of HBOS Treasury Services' Basel II project — this is STP's current main client work in progress.

Can we help you reduce your IT or financial risks?