Credit scoring – an alternate approach What is credit scoring? Credit scoring is a tool for segregating client credit exposures based on expected default behavior. It uses a number of techniques to grade clients based on their credit worthiness.  From a portfolio and risk management

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The Iran oil equation. Spring comes to Tehran. Nowroz, the Persian New Year arrives 21st March.  As Tehran shrugs off a mild winter there is optimism about coming months. Iran’s journey on the road of isolation ended in December 2015. The flurry of activity it

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The Iran oil equation. Spring comes to Tehran. Nowroz, the Persian New Year arrives 21st March.  As Tehran shrugs off a mild winter there is optimism about coming months. Iran’s journey on the road of isolation ended in December 2015. The flurry of activity it

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Balls or barrels? A model builder speaks about his reason for being. Ask the right question. Answer it quick. The model will take care of itself. That is all there is to building great models.  I build models. In 1987 when I was thinking about a

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The Zen of building risk models. A model builder speaks about his reason for being. Ask the right question. Answer it quick. The model will take care of itself. That is all there is to building great models.  I build models. In 1987 when I was

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Saudi oil strategy. How low can they go? The opinion on Saudi oil strategy is divided. Planned mayhem and chaos in exchange for market share versus an over played hand. While we may all have some beef with Saudi Arabia, smart money when it comes to

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Saudi oil strategy. How low can they go? The Saudi oil strategy is the most riveting of the lot.  The lot associated with the dynamics of crude oil pricing. But first some context. The top three crude oil producers in the world may switch places with each

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Russian roulette. Oil prices and the Siberian bear. All is apparently not well in Moscow. After two years of isolation, internal belt tightening and months of unabated oil price declines, the Russian economy is struggling to answer a core question.  How do you bridge the

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Oil prices and China. The key question that we need to answer is not if the Chinese economy is slowing down. It is how  China is going to drive crude oil demand in the next two years. If and when the Chinese dragon roll, which

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The knives are out in the oil market. It has been an interesting twelve months.  Between bottoms, volatility, rumors and market shifts we have seen many interesting plays at work when it comes to trading crude oil.  Depending on who you speak with, low crude

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