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Podcast: Gordon Lee on how junior quants can go from newbie to MVP
Prioritising tasks and setting boundaries are key to career progression, says BNY’s head quant
Op risk data: Kaiser will helm half-billion-dollar payout for faking illness
Also: Loan collusion clobbers South Korean banks; AML fails at Saxo Bank and Santander. Data by ORX News
Beyond the hype, tokenisation can fix the pipework
Blockchain tech offers slicker and cheaper ops for illiquid assets, explains digital expert
Rethinking model validation for GenAI governance
A US model risk leader outlines how banks can recalibrate existing supervisory standards
Malkiel’s monkeys: a better benchmark for manager skill
A well-known experiment points to an alternative way to assess stock-picker performance, say iM Global Partner’s Luc Dumontier and Joan Serfaty
The state of IMA: great expectations meet reality
Latest trading book rules overhaul internal models approach, but most banks are opting out. Two risk experts explore why
How geopolitical risk turned into a systemic stress test
Conflict over resources is reshaping markets in a way that goes beyond occasional risk premia
Op risk data: FIS pays the price for Worldpay synergy slip-up
Also: Liberty Mutual rings up record age bias case; Nationwide’s fraud failings. Data by ORX News
What the Tokyo data cornucopia reveals about market impact
New research confirms universality of one of the most non-intuitive concepts in quant finance
Allocating financing costs: centralised vs decentralised treasury
Centralisation can boost efficiency when coupled with an effective pricing and attribution framework
Collateral velocity is disappearing behind a digital curtain
Dealers may welcome digital-era rewiring to free up collateral movement, but tokenisation will obscure metrics
Does crypto really need T+0 for everything?
Instant settlement brings its own risks but doesn’t need to be the default, writes BridgePort’s Soriano
October’s crash shows crypto has come of age
Ability to absorb $19bn liquidation event marks a turning point in market’s maturity, says LMAX Group's Jenna Wright
Responsible AI is about payoffs as much as principles
How one firm cut loan processing times and improved fraud detection without compromising on governance
Op risk data: Low latency, high cost for NSE
Also: Brahmbhatt fraud hits BlackRock, JP Morgan slow to shop dubious deals. Data by ORX News
Quantcast Master’s Series: Kihun Nam, Monash University
Melbourne-based programme winks at pension fund sector
How Basel III endgame will reshape banks’ business mix
B3E will affect portfolio focus and client strategy, says capital risk strategist
Why source code access is critical to Dora compliance
As Dora takes hold in EU, access to source code is increasingly essential, says Adaptive’s Kevin Covington
Quantcast Master’s Series: Petter Kolm, Courant Institute
The NYU programme is taught almost exclusively by elite financial industry practitioners
CVA capital charges – the gorilla in the mist
The behaviour of CVA risk weights at US banks in 2020 hints at the impact of the Basel III endgame
NMRF framework: does it satisfy the ‘use test’?
Non-modellable risk factors affect risk sensitivity and face practical and calibration difficulties, argue two risk experts