Articles by Risk.net staff
Currency derivatives house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: Access to wealth management client base helped Swiss bank to recycle volatility and provide accurate pricing for a range of FX structures
Equity derivatives house of the year: Bank of America
Risk Awards 2025: Bank gains plaudits – and profits – with enhanced product range, including new variants of short-vol structures and equity dispersion
Credit derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2025: Continued investment in credit has created a virtuous circle of growth, as cash products support derivatives, and vice versa
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Natixis
Risk Awards 2025: French bank’s hedge fund push boosts its flow standing and creates repack risk offsets
Structured products house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: bulked-up structuring team is more than just the sum of its parts
Risk solutions house of the year: Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
Risk Awards 2025: Bank-wide co-ordination spurs creative solutions including ‘umbrella’ deal contingent swap
Flow market-maker of the year: Natixis
Risk Awards 2025: Flow push pays off, with FX and rates volumes almost doubling year-on-year
Bank risk manager of the year: Intesa Sanpaolo
Risk Awards 2025: Market risk team developed new tools that helped overcome the challenge of FRTB internal models
Credit portfolio manager of the year: UniCredit
Risk Awards 2025: A focus on economic value-added prompted a rapid expansion of the bank’s synthetic risk transfer activity
Technology vendor of the year: Numerix
Risk Awards 2025: Fincad and PolyPaths deals added coverage; AAD and cloud refactoring boosted speed
Quant of the year: Julien Guyon
Risk Awards 2025: Volatility modeller par excellence (and football fan) achieved breakthrough with joint calibration of S&P and Vix options
Rising star in quant finance: Milena Vuletić
Risk Awards 2025: Machine learning-based volatility model confounds sceptics