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THE STRUCTURED PRODUCTS CONUNDRUM: REVIVAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was an eye-opener for a number of people as it forced them to realise the importance of liquidity and transparency.

As a result, bankruptcy filings in the advanced economies, both business and personal, rose at an accelerated rate in 2009. The ongoing financial crisis posed major challenges to policy makers and regulators as they attempted to stabilize financial markets and prevent the slide of the global economy from its deepest synchronized recession in 60 years into possible depression. However, lessons were learnt from the Great Depression: the monetary, financial and fiscal stimulus response was unprecedented. Although we are not out of the tunnel yet, initial signs seem to show that the global response is starting to work.

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The Structured Products Conundrum

  • Kondor+ Kondor+ is the world's most widely used Trade and Risk Management platform, providing market-leading technology to financial institutions seeking to optimize and expand their trading operations.
  • KGR Kondor Global Risk (KGR) provides a single, integrated product for managing market risk, credit risk and limits in real time. This allows financial institutions to make proactive business decisions based on genuine risk intelligence
  • KTP KTP Kondor Trade Processing (KTP) is an integrated treasury and back office system that meets all the trade processing, cash and accounting needs of corporations and financial institutions, enabling them to benefit from increased automation and effective risk management
  • TopOffice TopOffice TopOffice enables banks to monitor cross-asset risk exposures and performance measures in real-time, across the organisation. This gives senior executives the integrated dynamic view of risk they need to make informed business decision and drive growth effectively