Articles by James Ryder
Princeton, Baruch and Berkeley top for quant master’s degrees
Eight of 10 leading schools for quantitative finance programmes are based in US, latest rankings show
People moves: Ice rings changes, new CFTC appointees, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Buy side turns to extreme value theory to spot tail risks
Asset managers reappraise decades-old technique to gauge downside risks amid fears of volatile 2022
Litigation threats seen delaying SEC climate disclosure rules
Efforts to demonstrate materiality of exposures to investment decision-making is taking longer than expected, say lawyers
Climate scenarios: carbon price shock sees asset prices slump
Crowd-sourced scenario analysis suggests very few sectors safe from a post-COP carbon price pop
Inflation scenarios: tail risks loom for US equities
Portfolios could lose more than one-third of their value if inflation stays high, suggests crowd-sourced scenario exercise
Cyber optics: are banks downplaying the SolarWinds hack?
In the wake of the watershed breach, banks eye supply chain risk while talking down the hack’s impact
Abu Dhabi fund lures top quants for burgeoning team
StanChart analytics head joins Lopez de Prado at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
OCC quants tout anti-procyclical margin method
Technique aims to lower initial margin calls in times of stress without sacrificing risk sensitivity
Eurex plans hedging contest in default auction revamp
New step in the default management process would enhance transparency in hedge provider selection
Goldman tackles climate risk controls
Lender joins other banks in translating physical and transition threats into controls framework
Mizuho EU CRO reveals his top risks – they may surprise you
Fears over technology dominate Wolfgang Koehler’s list of greatest risks for Mizuho’s EU unit
Zurich’s Scott: don’t levy climate risk capital charges
Imposing set-asides based on stress tests “does not make any sense”, sustainability chief warns watchdogs
How time-step stress-testing helped Deutsche navigate Covid
Market risk chief touts importance of repeat stress-testing over point-in-time methods
Quant grad conveyor belt stalls as banks retrench
Jobs market is long quant graduates, short vacancies – but hiring freeze shows signs of thawing
People moves: senior swaps at HSBC, new CEO for Nomura, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Eurex switches default fund calculation
As whipsawing markets see contributions balloon, CCP will now base charges on stress loss method
Fed’s Lindo: Basel op resilience rules imminent
Committee has also formed new group to oversee supervisory policy harmonisation, says senior regulator
After Texas storm, CFTC’s Behnam renews carbon trading push
Smaller banks imperilled by economic shocks from freak weather, says acting CFTC chair
People moves: new CRO at LCH, changes at Natixis investment bank, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Ex-SunGard chief Cris Conde’s random walk to fintech and beyond
Technologist talks artificial intelligence, angel investing and accidentally contributing to the Basel framework
Quant Guide 2021: Princeton still top, but runners-up close gap
Baruch takes second spot; Zurich, top-ranked European programme, rises to fourth
HSBC exec: measure culture through smarter surveillance
Machine learning could help gauge positive sentiment from surveillance logs, says Elhedery
NY Fed’s Stiroh: ‘cultural capital’ at risk in pandemic
Risk USA: remote working could “erode” the culture of financial firms, says senior regulator