Jawwad

Oil prices were mixed on Wednesday, the 9th of March. At the time of market closure, Brent Crude Oil Spot Price was of USD $ 114.93 a barrel, slightly above its previous day’s price of USD $ 112.41 a barrel. The price of West Texas Sour, Midlands Oil was of USD $ 100.73 a barrel,…Read more

Oil prices were mixed on Wednesday, the 9th of March. At the time of market closure, Brent Crude Oil Spot Price was of USD $ 114.93 a barrel, slightly above its previous day’s price of USD $ 112.41 a barrel. The price of West Texas Sour, Midlands Oil was of USD $ 100.73 a barrel,…Read more

Oil prices further decreased over the weekend, with Brent closing in at a two-week low of USD $ 111 a barrel. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan has led to the closure of the majority of automobile and electronic firms, and a risk to the country’s numerous nuclear plants. This is expected to have a…Read more

Oil prices further decreased over the weekend, with Brent closing in at a two-week low of USD $ 111 a barrel. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan has led to the closure of the majority of automobile and electronic firms, and a risk to the country’s numerous nuclear plants. This is expected to have a…Read more

It took two students, over a hundred training engagements in 6 markets and a life working with risk and finance to change my mind. 2007 was a good year in many ways. It was also the year when Abbas Qureshi at SP Jain, Dubai and Adnan Iqbal at Deloitte Consulting, DC asked me the same…Read more

Ever since we started preparing ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process) submission reports the two areas where clients had the most questions dealt with estimation of internal capital for strategic and liquidity risk. One client went as far as saying that I don’t want to discuss Pillar I at all. I understand Pillar I. It…Read more

Ever since we started preparing ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process) submission reports the two areas where clients had the most questions dealt with estimation of internal capital for strategic and liquidity risk. One client went as far as saying that I don’t want to discuss Pillar I at all. I understand Pillar I. It…Read more

Two ICAAP training workshops, three days, one magical location. Our second set of workshops covering exotic financial topics in breathtaking tropical locations. A focus on ICAAP – Pillar II risks primarily ALM and Liquidity Risk Capital using Interest Rate Simulations. The two day main event is preceded by a single day foundation workshop on Internal…Read more

And now for something truly off the beaten track. Exotic Financial Courses run in exotic tropical locations with trainers dressed in even more exotic Batik and Hawaiian shirts. The first in this series is the ALM and Liquidity Risk workshop in Subang, Malaysia in January, quickly followed by the ALM for ICAAP and Interest Rate…Read more

Interest Rate Forecasting and Modeling workshop The workshop is aimed at treasury, risk and fixed income investors who use interest rate forecasting tools for arbitrage, ALM, risk or credit policy decisions. Teaching methodology is based on intensive hands on model building and application cases. The workshop covers four different families of interest rate models starting…Read more