Traditional Ratings, Traditional Risk Management: Is it Over?
“.. the effective management of risk is one of the core strengths that has made Lehman Brothers so successful”Continue Reading
Month: March 2014
The Present and Future of the Concept and Value of Ratings
“Rating agencies? Do not speak evil of the dead” (Corriere della Sera, 15/1/2009). This is an extreme synthesis of theContinue Reading
Conventional Ratings: Why The Abysmal Performance?
Why are ratings so unreliable? In a recent article which appeared on 19-th July, 2012 on Thomson Reuters News &Continue Reading
Beyond Credit Rating Agencies: A New Post-Crisis Rating System
Avoiding the next financial crisis may not be easy but if there is one factor that may potentially contribute toContinue Reading
Beyond the concepts of Risk and Risk Management
The current economic crisis indicates that conventional risk assessment, rating and management techniques don’t perform well in a turbulent andContinue Reading
Is it Possible to Make Predictions?
Prediction of the future has always been man’s dream. However, there is an overwhelming amount of physical evidence that thisContinue Reading
Italy Beats Moody’s.
Moody’s is the largest of the three major rating agencies. It employs 7000 people worldwide and posted sales of 2.7Continue Reading
How Complex is the World? We’ve Measured It.
Using annual data from the World Bank, spanning the last 5 decades, we have computed the complexity of the WorldContinue Reading
Visual Analytics and Cognitive Computing – Ontonix Beats IBM
IBM has recently announced a new “way to program computers” – the so-called “cognitive computing” – see here –Continue Reading
The Principle of Fragility
The following equation, which we call the Principle of Fragility, has been coined by Ontonix in early 2005 and indicatesContinue Reading
Artificial Intuition 