TradeRisks, is a Brixx RP partner, and an FSA regulated investment banking boutique. It provides treasury risk management, corporate finance, and funding and capital markets structuring and advice to some of the largest UK housing associations. TradeRisks is the leading provider of consultancy services to social housing organisations, regeneration partnerships, arms length management organisations and local and government authorities and regulators. Its clients own in excess of 350,000 residential properties in the UK.

Key areas of expertise include:

* Treasury risk management - Counterparty risk, Security utilisation, Documentation risk, Optimisation of debt portfolio mix, Business planning, Treasury policy and training
* Debt issuance - Bank debt, Capital markets, Private placement
* Derivatives pricing and execution
* Project modelling, development and investment opportunity analysis
* M&A and enterprise value analysis

TradeRisks also operates TRL Exchange, a market place whereby TradeRisks arranges for housing associations to enter into interest rate and RPI swaps with each other, drastically reducing cost, counterparty credit risk and margin call risk.

Working in partnership with Brixx, TradeRisks provides comprehensive business planning services, including structuring, population and training for all plans, business plan reviews and validations, Monte-Carlo and stress testing risk analysis and on-going economic recommendations.

For more information please visit www.traderisks.com.