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Resources from our experts: New Research! "A Best Practice Approach to Modelling Sovereign Defaults" by Donald R. Van Deventer, Suresh Sankaran and Clement OOI "Forward Curve Smoothing" by Robert Jarrow "Fiscal Consolidations and Bank Balance Sheets" by Jacopo Cimadomo, Sebastian Hauptmeier and Tom Zimmermann "A Generalized Multiple-Factor Asset Pricing Model" by Robert Jarrow "The Zero-Lower Bound on Interest Rates: Myth or Reality?" by Robert Jarrow "Problems with Using CDS to Infer Default Probabilities" by Robert Jarrow "The Impact of Quantitative Easing on the U.S. Term Structure of Interest Rates" by Robert Jarrow and Hao Li "Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) - Appreciating the Enigma Around It" by Suresh Sankaran, from Asian Banking and Finance "A Gold Bubble?" by Robert Jarrow, Younes Kchia, and Philip Protter "Risk Management Models: Construction, Testing, Usage" by Robert Jarrow "Determinants of Sovereign Risk: Macroeconomic Fundamentals and the Pricing of Sovereign Debt" by Jens Hilscher & Yves Nosbusch
Financial Derivatives Pricing: Selected Works of Robert Jarrow
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January 5, 2015 Kamakura Reports Significant Decline in Corporate Credit Quality during December Kamakura Troubled Company Index Increases 1.31% to 6.42% December 1, 2014 Kamakura Reports Stable Corporate Credit Quality during November Kamakura Troubled Company Index Increases 0.01% to 5.11% from October 28 November 4, 2014 Kamakura Reports Continued Weakening of Corporate Credit Quality in October, Kamakura Troubled Company Index Increases 0.46% to 5.12% from September 30 October 30, 2014 Krung Thai Bank PCL Thailand upgrades to Kamakura Corporation Suite of Solutions for Asset Liability Management, Funds Transfer Pricing, Basel 3 Liquidity calculations for regulatory compliance, and Economic Profit Calculations October 2, 2014 Kamakura Reports Weakening of Corporate Credit Quality in September Kamakura Troubled Company Index Increases 0.30% to 4.66% from August 31 September 16, 2014 Kamakura Adds Credit Default Swap Trading Volumes to KRIS Default Probability Service September 9, 2014 Kamakura Corporation Announces U.S. Bank Default Model September 2, 2014 Kamakura Reports Improvement in Corporate Credit Quality in August Kamakura Troubled Company Index Decreases 0.22% to 4.36% from July 31 July 16, 2014 Bank of Communications China implements Kamakura Corporation suite of solutions for Market Risk including adoption of the internal models approach (IMA) for regulatory compliance June 19, 2014 New Research by Robert Jarrow Integrates Yield Curve Smoothing and Interest Rate Modeling: Techniques Used by Many Central Banks Inconsistent with “No Arbitrage”
June 16, 2014 Government Savings Bank (GSB) Selects Kamakura Corporation to Implement IAS39/IFRS39 May 16, 2014 Capturing Alpha in the Bond Market: J.P. Morgan Asset Management Strategy Article Features Kamakura Default Probabilities May 2, 2014 Fiscal Consolidations and Bank Balance Sheets New Research Paper Provides an Empirical Link between Bank and Sovereign Risk October 17, 2013 Prof. Robert Jarrow speaks at MIT in honor of 40th anniversary of Black-Scholes July 18, 2013 Risk Vendor Kamakura Corporation Names Martin Zorn President and COO May 15, 2013 New Kamakura Research from Prof. Robert Jarrow "A Generalized Multiple-Factor Asset Pricing Model" May 8, 2013 New Kamakura Research from Prof. Robert Jarrow "The Zero-Lower Bound on Interest Rates: Myth or Reality?" January 4, 2012 Kamakura Corporation Named to World Finance 100 May 11, 2010 - Dr. Robert Jarrow Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations For Video Version Click Here For Text Version Click Here January 14, 2009 Kamakura Managing Director Robert A. Jarrow Named for RISK Magazine 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award More...
Kamakura Corporation Named to World Finance 100
January 15, 2015 Municipal Credit Default Swap Trading Volume, 2010 to 2014
January 14, 2015 MBIA and Bank of America Lead U.S. Bank Credit Default Swap Trading Volume, 2010-2014 January 13, 2015 Banco Santander, S.A. Tops International Bank Credit Default Swap Trading Volume, 2010 to 2014
January 12, 2015 J. C. Penney Leads Non-Bank Corporate Credit Default Swap Trading Volume, 2010 to 2014 January 9, 2015 Sovereign Credit Default Swaps and the European Commission Short Sale Ban, 2010-2014 January 8, 2015 CDS Trading Volume for 1,239 Reference Names From 2010 to 2014 January 6, 2015 Trends in Sovereign Credit Risk Assessment December 4, 2014 The Fed’s CCAR Stress Testing: Big Banks and the Severely Adverse Scenario December 2, 2014 Stress Testing: The Use and Abuse of Lagged Default Probabilities in “Forbidden” Credit Models November 14, 2014 Stress Testing: The Use and Abuse of “Intuitive Signs” on Credit Model Coefficients November 12, 2014 Best Practice Model Validation for Stress-Testing Under the Fed’s CCAR 2015 Test Regime October 21, 2014 Best Practice Model Validation for Stress-Testing, Value at Risk, and Credit VAR October 15, 2014 Calculation of the Term Structure of Liquidity Premium August 18, 2014 More Evidence on the Funding “Subsidy” of the Too Big to Fail Banks August 13, 2014 Liquidity At Risk – A stochastic look at cashflows More...
Stress Testing and Macro-Factor Driven Monte Carlo Simulation: A Hands on Seminar with Prof. Robert Jarrow and Kamakura Corporation New York, October 27, 2014 Stress Testing, Counterparty Credit Risk, and Capital Adequacy Boot Camp Heath, Jarrow and Morton Yield Curve Simulation Boot Camp Making the Transition from Legacy Ratings to Modern Default Probabilities and Credit Spread Analysis Heath Jarrow and Morton 3 Factor Model Video: Parallel Yield Curve Shifts, narrated by Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, founder of Kamakura Corporation Heath Jarrow and Morton 3 Factor Model Video: 50 Years of Actual versus Predicted Results, narrated by Dr. Donald R. van Deventer Video: Kamakura Corporation Named to World Finance 100 for 2012 Video: Professor Robert Jarrow on Financial Modeling and the Sub-Prime Crisis Interest Rate Risk Video: 50 Years of Par Coupon Bond Yields, narrated by Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, founder of Kamakura Corporation Interest Rate Risk Video: 50 Years of Zero Coupon Bond Yields, narrated by Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, founder of Kamakura Corporation Interest Rate Risk Video: 50 Years of Forward Rate Movements, narrated by Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, founder of Kamakura Corporation More...