Articles by James Ryder
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
At bounding MarketAxess platform, a new CRO parses risk
Clarity and communication are basics to Oliver Huggins at one of the biggest US bond platforms
FCA has active pipeline of misconduct investigations
As expansion of SMR to smaller firms looms, regulator says plenty of bankers are under scrutiny
Axoni readies blockchain platform for equity swaps
Service aims to smooth swaps reconciliation – ‘the Holy Grail’ – for Goldman, Citi and other backers
Q&A: CFTC’s Behnam on tackling market risk in climate change
Commissioner wants to see new derivatives products to help mitigate climate threat
Is there safety in numbers for op risk? One regtech thinks so
Acin’s library of op risks allows banks to compare their controls with their peers’
People moves: CRO role for SG’s Ricke, Barclays continues hiring spree, new SwapClear head, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
UBS exec: first trades via USC could take place this year
Risk Live: utility settlement coin project backed by group of banks moving “incredibly fast”
Industry should work together on operational resilience – BoE
Regulator to “shortly” issue report highlighting opportunities for op risk collaboration
Fed pushes big banks to calculate CVA for CCPs
Banks including JP Morgan and Credit Suisse told to quantify exposure to CCPs for annual stress tests
BoE makes climate risk a hot topic for banks
Financial institutions must entrust oversight of climate risk to named individual under senior managers regime
FCA may delay enforcement of UK’s conduct regime
Smaller firms won’t be penalised right away, says head of regulatory decisions committee
BoE to scrutinise banks’ op risk tolerance limits
Watchdog says banks must prove they can stick to tolerance limits; cyber stress test planned
FCA steps up anti-money laundering spot checks
UK watchdog changes fincrime head amid speculation AML spot visits increasing because of critical FATF review
People moves: SocGen changes at the top, new global markets head at HSBC, compliance switch at Natixis, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
UK quant academics fear Brexit brain drain
Brexit hitting graduate jobs, funding and “driving European academics away from the UK”, say universities
Metro Bank execs under scrutiny after loan probe snafu
Lender could see capital buffer rise after admitting regulator, not bank, discovered errors
Metro Bank loan blunder perplexes industry
Bankers surprised risk-weight errors went unnoticed, warn they could harm bank’s IRB aspirations
Quant guide 2019: industry entrants face cultural ‘abyss’
Divide between industry and academia worries practitioners and professors
Princeton tops inaugural Risk.net quant master’s ranking
Course sees off competition from Berkeley’s Haas and three New York schools
LCH shakes up compression vendor fee structure
Proposals follow criticism that current regime favours top provider TriOptima
LCH launches CDS exercise platform
CCP touts method for speeding up manual settlement process as rival Ice gears up for options launch
Ice changing margin model for move into options
CCP aims for Q1 2019 roll-out of new Monte Carlo-based methodology as it plans launch of index swaptions
People moves: Piterbarg joins NatWest Markets, Le Brusq leaves Natixis, and more
Latest job changes across the industry