Au sommaire notamment : Introduction to extreme events in finance (F. Longin) ; Le phénomène leptokurtique sur les marchés financiers (C. Walter) ; Portfolio insurance : the extreme value approach to the CPPI method (P. Bertrand, J.-L. Prigent) ; Building a financial richter scale to assess the gravity of a financial crisis : the case of 1998 (J. Legras).