Articles by Risk.net staff
Structured products house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2026: Innovative structures such as the catapult helped propel US issuance to new heights
Risk solutions house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2026: Diverse range of transactions puts French bank’s innovative skills in the frame
QIS house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2026: Intraday delta hedging helped dispersion strategies perform well, particularly during Trump tariff tantrum
Investment house of the year: Manulife Investment Management
Risk Awards 2026: Risk team learns to speak the language of PMs, with impressive results
Hedge fund of the year: LMR Partners
Risk Awards 2026: Lessons learned in 2020 prepared LMR to handle this year’s volatility
Clearing house of the year: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Risk Awards 2026: FICC has convinced the market that figuring out “done away” clearing will not be the only key to UST clearing reform
Exchange of the year: CME Group
Risk Awards 2026: Price discovery remained remarkably resilient as volumes set records
OTC trading platform of the year: Reactive Markets
Risk Awards 2026: Through April tumult, Reactive kept fill rates near 100% and latency below 50 microseconds
Derivatives client clearer of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: When tariffs rocked markets, Citi’s FCM was a model of reliability
Law firm of the year: Simmons & Simmons
Risk Awards 2026: Swiss-army-knife law firm aids clients in areas ranging from carbon credits to synthetic risk transfer to crypto
Buy-side quants of the year: Petter Kolm and Nicholas Westray
Risk Awards 2026: Study provides proof that simple is best when it comes to AI in finance
Quants of the year: Vladimir Lucic and Alex Tse
Risk Awards 2026: Quants broke silence on option market-making models with an algorithm that accounts for portfolio risk
Lifetime achievement award: Dennis McLaughlin
Risk Awards 2026: When the stakes are systemic, ex-Princeton prof is never far away
Currency derivatives house of the year: Bank of America
Risk Awards 2026: Early call on dollar weakness helped bank break vega records in April and quickly recycle 95% of risk
Risk Awards 2026: The winners
Citi claims top derivatives prize, lifetime award for Dennis McLaughlin, JP Morgan wins equities
Rising star in quant finance: David Itkin
Risk Awards 2026: LSE academic spearheaded project that found neat method for calculating price impact of trades
Law firm of the year: Clifford Chance
Risk Asia Awards 2025
Structured products house of the year: Barclays
Risk Asia Awards 2025
Risk Technology Awards 2025: Tariff turmoil’s tech effects
Upheaval in US trade policy drove demands for more data, more simulations as supervisors pushed banks to plan for the worst
Data and analytics firm of the year: LSEG Data & Analytics
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Firm’s vast datasets and unique analytics deliver actionable insights into energy transition trends
Climate risk advisory firm of the year: SparkChange
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Data firm provides unique insight into energy transition winners, losers and mispriced firms