Technology/Risk management
Core-Payments for business leaders: why real-time access to payment data is key to long‑term business success
Business leaders require easy access to timely, reliable and complete information across post-trade processes. Aside from the usual requirements of senior managers to optimise for risk, revenues and costs, they increasingly need to demonstrate to their…
Firms weigh impact of blockchain on post-trade services
Opportunity for using distributed ledgers in OTC market discussed at meeting held by CFTC
Risk software survey 2015: speed, compliance and valuation
Regulatory change drives innovation, with valuation, centralisation and speed taking centre stage
Interview: Zar Amrolia on liquidity provision
Former co-head of Ficc at Deutsche Bank believes non-banks will become essential source of liquidity for banks
Managing data still biggest technology challenge for Asia banks
Data has been a problem for the past two decades for firms in the region
US Treasury’s cyber chief lays out cyber security blueprint
Julia Philipp recommends targeted defences, data sharing and response planning
Financial firms must be prepared for cyber infiltration – panel
Focus needs to be on reacting, not stopping every threat
Risk software survey 2014: risk, compliance and capacity
Risk's annual round-up of new software developments
Supervisors slam banks over 'top 20' counterparty results
After five years of work, a group of 19 big banks still get a failing grade from supervisors on their ability to pull together and report counterparty exposures. Is it all a question of cost? Fiona Maxwell reports
Beyond relational databases: a solution to data fragmentation
Beyond relational databases
Aggregation versus aggravation
Corporate statement: SunGard
Basel challenges big banks to improve risk data aggregation
Crunch time for data
White paper: Setting the Stage for FATCA Compliance
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act stands to transform the global tax framework and how financial institutions track and report on their clients’ financial assets. With the law slated to come into effect in 2013, its implications and how financial…
Quant Congress Europe: Quants should take share of blame for crisis
Quants should take their share of the blame for the crisis, and should focus on less mathematically complex models, said some panellists – although not everyone at Quant Congress Europe agreed
Sentiment could enhance risk models, says Algo’s Macdonald
Market sentiment could eventually be used as an input for risk and trading models, helping to predict future events, says John Macdonald of IBM Algorithmics
The outlook for mobile energy trading
Trading on the move
Energy risk manager outlines post-Dodd Frank reporting vision
Energy risk managers must develop a sustainable reporting system and not focus on finding "perfect technology", says ConocoPhillips risk manager
Hellman & Friedman to buy OpenLink
New-York-based commodity software firm OpenLink has announced its owners The Carlyle Group will sell it to a US private equity firm
Sponsored statement: Navita
Taking the leap into smart energy markets
ETRM technology: analysing analytics
Analysing analytics
Are CROs engaged enough in IT decisions?
Purchasing power and influence