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Kraig Conrad, CTP
Director of Corporate Finance and Risk Management
Association for Financial Professionals
Kraig Conrad is a corporate finance and risk management subject matter expert responsible for producing education sessions, articles and publications. Prior to joining AFP, he consulted with Braun Consulting (now part of Fair Isaac) and worked as an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse. He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Conrad currently leads content development for the AFP Corporate Risk Forum, he writes the weekly AFP EconWatch with Dr. Kevin Roth, and writes a column in the AFP Risk! monthly risk management newsletter. Additionally, Conrad is interviewed for AFP Podcasts and occasionally writes for the AFP Exchange.
He can be reached at kconrad@afponline.org.
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ARTICLES
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- Risk Analysis: Risk That Lately Haven't Worried Anyone, but Should
- Does ERM Make a Company a Better Credit Risk?
- Six Ways Insurance is an Essential Component of Disaster Recovery
- ECB President Trichet Cautions Credit Derivative Markets
- Report Suggests Stand-Alone Terrorism Insurance Strength
- Customer Data Breach Exposures Large, Controls Important
- More States May Remove Corporate Tax Shelters
- Housing Prompts a Modest Decline in March Global Credit Quality
- Forecast of Active Hurricane Season Presents Increased Risk
- Geithner Upbeat on Implications of Credit Market Innovations
- Global Credit Quality Strong Despite Weakness in Sub Prime Market
- Average Property and Casualty Insurance Rates Fall in February
- Establishing Risk Tolerance Equal Issue for All Industries
- Continued Hedge Fund Inflows May Advance Regulation Argument
- Return of Liquidity Concerns... but When?
- Know Thy Investor: Increasing Leverage and Changing Investor Base Brings Challenges
- February 2007 Risk! Newsletter | Join the Distribution List
- Looking Ahead: Risk Management 2007
- Pension Regulation and Accounting Changes Bring New Challenges
- The Year's Risk Management Challenges for Treasury Departments
- AFP Honors Senior Level Certified Treasury Professionals
- AFP Delivers Newsletters on China, Accounting, Payments, Economy, Careers, Risk
- Leveraged Deals Revitalize Bondholder Protection Covenants
- Currency Hedging: Layer with Longer Tenor
- Payment-in-Kind Financing May Not Fare Well in an Uneasy Debt Market
- Inverted Treasury Yield Curve May Soon Revert to Typical Shape
- Complement Cash Flow Forecasting with Risk Measurements
- Single-Name Cash Settlement Improves CDS Usefulness to Non-Financial Companies
- Regulators Attempt to Map Instability Factors in Global Financial Markets
- US Leads In Global Research and Development Spending
- S&P Proposes Increasing Recovery Weights in Issue Ratings
- How Treasury and Finance Help Harrah's Win Big
- Acquisition Announcements and Speculation Help Equities Market Brush-Off Mixed Economic News
- Government Reports Contradict on Need for TRIA Extension
- Market Forces to have a Greater Role in Valuing Renminbi Yuan
- Global Debt Issuance Breaks Three-Quarter Record Despite Slight Slowdown
- The Latest to Place Employee Benefits Risk with Captive
- Moody's Proposes Addition of Covenant Assessment to Ratings Process
- Insurance Rates Move Downward Over Summer
- Strong Technology Deal Volume Evokes Bubble-Fear Once Again
- Will Stock Option Back-dating Hit D&O Insurance Hard?
- Hybrid Market Sees a Rebound Ahead of New NAIC Clarifications
- Covenant Compliance Could Complicate Leveraged Buyouts Deals
- Compliance Concerns Not the Only Factor Favoring Overseas IPOs
- That Boom was the Sound of the Growing Weather Derivatives Market
- Stock Option Timing May Back Over High Tech and High Yield Companies
- Risk Management Plans Face The High Growth Global Terrorism Industry
- Insurance No Longer A Novelty In The M&A Playbook
- Differing Opinions On TRIA Need--Catastrophe Bonds May Be The Answer
- Debt Holders vs. Equity Holders: Scores Shift In The Old Game
- June Global Index Shows Sharp Decline In Credit Quality
- Opinions On The Need For Terrorism Insurance Differ
- NAIC SVO Hybrid Securities Classification Determinations Status Update
- M&A Deals Do Not Realize Expected Value As Cross-Border Deals Increase
- AFP Risk Analysis: When Did You Last Test Your Recovery Plans?
- NAIC Delays Hybrid Securities Classifications Decision
- Stock Buyback Activity Continues To Soak Up Excess Cash
- Risk Resources from AFP
- Prepare Investor Relations Strategies Before Activist Hedge Fund Actions Flare Up
- Corporate Finance: The Price of a Burger in China Revisited
- Recent NAIC SVO Hybrid Securities Classifications May Further Slow New Issuances
- Bird Flu In China Could Send A Herald Wave Around The World
- Treasury's Growing Role in Risk Management
- Former Gemstar Execs Punished For Fraud While Former Enron Execs Wait
- Stapled Financing Loosens, M&A Deal Flow Reacts to Potential Conflicts of Interest
- "Go Shop" -- When A Done Deal Isn't A Done Deal
- Hybrid Securities Market Digesting New Equity Classification Decision
- Latest Commitments By 'Fourteen Families' Pleases NY Fed
- Exchange Deal Creating New Scope for Big Board, Open-Outcry Cries On Its Screens
- Practitioners Weigh Treasury Workstations In AFP Forum
- Politics, Protectionism And Security Fears Threaten Cross-Border M&A
- 'Fourteen Families' Attempt To Clean Credit Derivative House—Before Feds Arrive
- Yields May Go Higher With Strong Treasury Supply
- Reaching Finance Employees in Times of Disaster
- Reaching Finance Employees During Disasters
- RFID Redefines Future Of Supply Chain Visibility
- Jumping the Fence From Banking to Finance (And Vice Versa)
- Business Combinations: M&A Sets Treasury on a Course as Corporate Finance's New Analyst
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