Archive | 2012



What is Risk? The new risk assessment & risk management training series

What is Risk? Introductory training series for risk professionals.

A number of banking and regulatory customers requested a collection of basic and introductory training materials on risk management. Sometimes as trainers we forget that not everyone speaks the language of risk with the same fluency.
The three posts that follow, represent the first installment in our new [...]


APICTA 2012 Brunei – The participants – Team Pakistan

APICTA 2012 Brunei – Team Pakistan – Profile
Ever since the day we won our three golds in Jakarta Indonesia for Qualitatum, PixSense and TPS, mentoring team Pakistan for the annual APICTA Awards has become the most looked forward event in our lives.
This year we had some remarkable companies and individuals who flew with us to [...]


Asia Pacific ICT Awards – APICTA 2012 – Judges Profile

Asia Pacific ICT Awards – APICTA 2012 Judges – The Sultan of Hamdan

Sultan Hamdani is the King of charm, the crown prince of impossible situations, a master negotiator, and a devoted Durian fan. Travel with him is never without excitement, loud uncontrollable laughter or good food. In the Far East he is inevitably [...]


APICTA 2012 Brunei: Team Pakistan picks up four silvers at the Empire, Brunei Darussalam.

Team Pakistan won 4 Silvers at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2012 ceremony held at the Empire Country Club in Brunei Darussalam tonight. CARE won a silver in the Communication category; Tuna Code’s gKrypt won the award in Security; Pi Labs Inc’s CandyPot and Feed Garfield Gaming Engine in New Media and Entertainment and the [...]


Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2012 (APICTA 2012) – Brunei – Judging Day One – Photo blog

Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2012 (APICTA 2012) – Brunei – Judging Day One

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A chance to pitch at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA Awards) is an exhilirating experience that comes with its own sharp curves

Ask Munir Usman who was locked in a room by two of his mentors till the very last minute

There is no [...]


APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) 2012 – Brunei – Photo Blog – Arrival

Asia Pacific ICT Awards – APICTA 2012 Brunei – Photo Blog – Arrival

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The day begins with a two hour walk at 6:00 am around the Golf Course. 9 Holes.

The 18 hole Golf Course at the Empire Resort and Country Club presents some stunning views for early birds.

Such as Zafar Khan, the man with the [...]


Sea Shells – Another day at the beach

Three times a week we take Taha, the youngest member of our brood for his therapy on the beach. While he spends time with Parizad and Khan getting his dose of hippotherapy, Fawzia and I walk around discovering sea shells.

Open Sesame

Trash on the beach

Age & Shadows

Landing Zone


16 free Risk, Treasury & Option pricing training courses

Option pricing, Risk & Treasury online training course directory

Over the last few years we have posted some interesting training materials cutting across Risk, Treasury & Option pricing education and e-learning themes. This post compiles our best free training courses available  on FinanceTrainingCourse.com.  Course Topics include:

Black Scholes, Greeks & Option Pricing
Risk & Treasury Management
Liquidity & Stress [...]


Understanding Black Scholes formula – An intuitive derivation of N(d2)

Understanding Black Scholes – An intuitive derivation of N(d2)
Of all the intimidating equations and formulas (PDE’s and otherwise) out there, the derivation of the Black Scholes formula for a European option easily takes first prize for the most un-approachable of topics for new arrivals in this field. For many of us it is literally a [...]


Feed Garfield out on the iPhone tops China charts

Building engaging games on multiple smart phones platforms is difficult. I should know because despite trying for many years I still haven’t built one.
Building great games is a painful iterative process that includes more hits than misses. For every thirty titles you publish, if you are good and lucky (at the same time), you might [...]