This guest post is written by Gurpreet Banwait, the director of Insight Solutions Product Management at FINCAD. For the third year in a row, our company surveyed corporate treasuries from around the world to find out what’s important to them with respect to derivatives. Here is what I learned: 1. The overwhelming majority are still using derivatives. While there has been a slight decrease in those who say that they

Posted: May 15th, 2012 / read more

“I have seen the enemy and he is us.” That acute observation was made by America’s most popular and possibly most brilliant philosopher of the mid-twentieth century. A resident of the Okefenokee Swamp in the state of Georgia, many people forget that he was also a reluctant candidate for US President in both 1952 and 1956. What’s even more remarkable is that he was – wait for it – an

Posted: March 20th, 2012 / read more

“There is a difference between what features customers say they want and what customers are willing to pay for.” That observation/conclusion/ironclad rule/lesson about human nature was made by Herb Kelleher, the remarkable co-founder and former leader of Southwest Airlines, many years ago. It’s a lesson that countless product managers and CEOs, including this one, have also learned the hard way to their regret. But Kelleher seemed to know it right

Posted: January 27th, 2012 / read more

And now for the news… yesterday was Monday, which means… yet more talk about how to solve the Eurozone crisis without any action.

Posted: January 24th, 2012 / read more

The eurozone, sovereign debt, regulations and portfolio risk. View the video to hear my take on 2012

Posted: December 22nd, 2011 / read more