Risk Management

Silicon Valley Data Mining Camp, Nov 1, Mountain View (free)

Un-Conference, Free Event http://www.sfbayACM.org/?p=894 LOOKING FOR SPONSORS LOGISTICS: • Date: Sunday, November 1 • Time: 12:30 to 7:00 pm • Location: Hacker’s Dojo 140A South Whisman Rd Mountain…

Tagged: clustering, computing, Netflix, collaborative, filtering

Started by Greg Makowski Oct. 18, 2009.

1MM customers lose all their data on their cell phone -- no way back

A 1 billion dollar class action lawsuit in the making... Microsoft and T-Mobile on the defense. Data and contacts vanish from Sidekick phones The Sidekick has amnesia: Contacts and data disappear f…

Started by Sun Oct. 12, 2009.

FBI investigating laptops sent to US governors

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service There may be a new type of Trojan Horse attack to worry about. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who is sending laptop computers…

Started by Vincent Granville Sep. 2, 2009.

Financial Risk Management Focus

Financial Risk Management Focus at MoneyScience is a new section which brings together regularly updated risk management content from across MoneyScience and the web including: News, events, links,…

Tagged: training, jobs, events, news, management

Started by Jacob Bettany May. 21, 2009.

Risk Management/ Quantitative Analysis position 1 Reply

Hi All, We are currently looking for senior quantitative analysts for our clients on the West coast. We are primarily interested in people with hands-on experience in building quantitative models i…

Started by Veena Ram. Last reply by Jing Zhou Apr. 7, 2009.

Risk analysis in the field of medicine

William D. Rowe states in the introduction of his book An Anatomy of Risk "The only certainty in life is death; uncertainty lies in when and how death occurs, and whether it is final. Man strives to…

Tagged: medicine, Risk analysis

Started by Stephan Ogenstad Mar. 15, 2009.

What is the Best Approach for Using Transaction Monitoring and Two Factor ( Auth) in Combination without degrading the score ?

I am trying to conduct some benchmarking on this problem. It seems that most Two Factor approaches are sold as a magic bullet. In fact, malware is the way around this by the fraudsters. How are folks…

Started by Mary Ann Miler Nov. 1, 2008.

Portfolio Stress Testing 2 Replies

Dear All, I need your precious inputs on Portfolio Scenario Stress Testing. Please suggest where I can find more information on this test? Can SAS perform such test. Regards Dalip

Started by Dalip Sthi. Last reply by Ralph Winters Oct. 28, 2008.

Credit crunch: emerging loan patterns. What kind of analytics are behind these new lending strategies??

This is what I see: Banks (in particular Capital One) starting to mail unsollicited business credit card offers to profitable businesses Credit lines are being increased for profitable businesses Pe…

Started by Sun Oct. 26, 2008.

Help me find a book! 4 Replies

I was at Stacey in San Francisco (great bookstore) when I found a book called something like "security... handbook..." or "risk management ... handbook", more than 3000 pages, published by the CRC (n…

Started by Sun. Last reply by Vincent Granville Sep. 23, 2008.

Data mining tool 4 Replies

I am currently investigating data mining tools for fraud/aml investigation: the (required) features, the price, ... As features I was thinking about: -> Data input & preparation: the data inp…

Started by Nele. Last reply by Ralf Klinkenberg Sep. 22, 2008.

reject inference 2 Replies

Can anyone have practice about reject inference when developing an application scorecard? Any examples? Which technique is the preferable? (parceling,augmantation,re-weighti the preferable way to che…

Tagged: reject, inference

Started by Irena. Last reply by Tejamoy Ghosh Jul. 18, 2008.

Risk evaluation of start-ups

I am interested in the techniques used in risk evaluation of start-ups. Most VCs appear to have a short list of highly subjective attributes of what makes a startup successful. Whereas the M&A an…

Tagged: private equity, entrepreneur, system dynamics, start-up, venture capital

Started by Theodore Omtzigt May. 19, 2008.

Complimentary copy of the Journal of Operational Risk

Risk Journals would like to invite you to receive the current issue of the Journal of Operational Risk absolutely FREE. This peer-reviewed research journal focuses on the measurement and management…

Started by Vincent Granville May. 15, 2008.