Articles by Clive Davidson
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021: a different kind of virus
Tech vendors played a key role as markets – and market participants – adjusted to Covid-19
Asian banks bite back at big tech
Asia Risk 25: Asian lenders eye technology and data to help tame disruptors on their turf
Risk Technology Awards 2020 – Coping with Covid uncertainty
Scenarios scrapped, rules revised and holes plugged – how the winners of the Risk Technology Awards 2020 are adjusting to the Covid‑19 pandemic
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2020: The devil in the data
Banks are trying to do more with data, but they can’t always do it alone
Risk Technology Awards 2019: Making machines more helpful
Machine learning can be too efficient; now, vendors are looking for ways to make it more accurate. Clive Davidson looks at the stories behind this year’s Risk Technology Awards
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2019: Vendors enter the pick-and-mix era
Modular tech and micro-services – plus new risk and regulatory needs – are creating openings for insurgents and incumbents
AI wide open
The Risk Technology Awards 2018 have highlighted how new technologies are bringing recognition for vendors
Market Technology Awards 2018: New problems, new solutions
Vendors embrace cloud, alternative languages and agile approaches
Murex moves flagship trading and risk system on to cloud
Vendor expects more demand from squeezed banks; move also hints at modular future for risk systems
Asia Risk Technology Rankings 2017: The winners
Murex tops tech provision
Insurance accounting shake-up puts risk centre stage
IFRS 17 will create a closer link between insurers' risk management and P&L volatility
Progress checked: buy side still struggling to join up analytics
Firms see benefit in linking performance attribution and risk, but differences in approach are a constraint on headway
Risk technology rankings 2016: no bank is an island
Murex, FIS and Calypso take the top spots in this year’s rankings, as banks’ technology needs inspire more collaborative approaches
Asia Risk technology rankings 2016: Who rules the roost?
Our rankings rate the vendors in Asia that offer useful tech solutions
Technology: banks start thinking inside the box
Monolithic capital markets systems are giving way to microservices, containers and APIs
The growing pull of public cloud for banks and regulators
Adoption by the FCA for Mifid II data reporting indicates public cloud satisfies regulatory, security and reliability requirements
Experts warn on simplistic approach to vendor risk
Magnitude of exposures "very difficult" to size
Risk technology rankings 2015: Surgery, instead of plasters
Murex, Calypso, FIS take top spots as clients push for regulatory compliance
Firms tap Solvency II know-how for accounting overhaul
IFRS changes will be next challenge for European insurers
Tighter spreads prompt insurers to rethink liquidity premium
Firms struggling to know whether returns justify buying illiquid assets
Technology Provider of the Year: SunGard
Platform integration drives SunGard to tech provider win
Technology Innovation of the Year: Cathay Conning Asset Management
Strategic asset allocation and enterprise risk management tool scoops award
Asia Risk technology rankings 2015: Heavyweights win again
Murex victorious in tech rankings; Calypso and Misys make up top three
Presentation is key to making most of insurance models
Management depends on clear information to harness full value, say specialists