“…In a number of applications, especially those associated with multiplicative noise, the balanced implicit method showed much better stability behaviour than other methods: see, for instance, Schurz (1996a) and Fischer and Platen (1998). Implicit schemes or different concepts of numerical stability have been suggested and studied in a variety of papers, and we again mention a long list, including Talay (19826, 1984), Klauder and Petersen (1985), Pardoux and Talay (1985), Milstein (1988aMilstein ( , 1995a, Artemiev and Shkurko (1991), Drummond and Mortimer (1991), Kloeden and Platen (1992), Spigler (1992, 1993), Artemiev (1993aArtemiev ( , 1993&, 1994, Saito and Mitsui (19936), Hofmann and Platen (1994), Milstein and Platen (1994), Komori and Mitsui (1995), Hofmann and Platen (1996), Saito and Mitsui (1996), Schurz (1996a), Schurz (1996c), Ryashko and Schurz (1997), Burrage (1998), Higham (1998) and Petersen (1998). Despite all this work, stochastic numerical stability remains an open and challenging area of research.…”