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Commodity volatility increases need for risk management
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No need to be negative about negative prices
Electricity prices falling below zero are not a sign of end times, but a valid price signal
Brexit gives banks a taste of life without AFS bond filters
Liquidity buffer valuations now key concern during stress events
Even for me, AMA models are too complicated
The AMA doesn’t make any sense – but the idea of a single, simple equation does, writes Ruben Cohen
Time to gear up for MVA
Banks must be prepared for the looming rise of non-cleared margin requirements
Credit risk in energy: Best practices for challenging times
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Best fraud detection product: Clari5
Financial crime-management system uses collective intelligence and responds to changes in a client's behaviour over time
Non-cleared market is changing – not dying
Non-cleared swaps market faces challenges, but it is adapting, writes Isda’s Scott O’Malia
Law firm of the year: Stephenson Harwood
Small is beautiful for the regulatory litigation practice, representing banks in high-profile cases
Asset manager of the year: AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein reduces costly operational blunders by bringing risk to the fore
Best outsourcing provider: Lanware
The firm offers a full suite of services, from disaster recovery, unified communications and back-up to cloud-based IT
Best cyber risk/security product: RiskLens
The US software company's product enables reporting and decision-making on cyber security
Bank of the year: UBS
Risk management failures cause the bank to revamp its op risk programme
Best managed/support services provider: Abide Financial
Firm captures a 24% market share in Mifid reporting by volume and is the third-largest manager of trade reports under Emir
Best operational risk initiative: Oric’s Scenario universe and Principles of operational risk management and measurement
The consortium wins with a definitive set of op risk scenarios that insurers can use to identify which one is relevant
Best newcomer: Capital Preferences
Its Economic Fingerprint product uses basic games to tease out a client's 'revealed preferences' in terms of their attitude to risk
Regulator of the year: Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Apra wins praise for pushing business case for op risk modelling and scenario analysis
Best financial crime product and Best overall provider of the year: Nasdaq Smarts
A surveillance system developed by Nasdaq proves critical to the success of a 'layering' case
Best regulatory reporting platform or service: UnaVista
The service boasts some 50,000 users, with around five billion transactions being processed each year
Best GRC product and Best operational risk product: Nasdaq BWise
The vendor, a leader in the governance, risk and compliance space, scores with rapid deployment solutions
Best risk analytics tool, Best stress testing product and Best overall product: The Analytics Boutique
OpCapital Analytics has been implemented at 10 institutions, including banks and insurance companies
Best market surveillance product: Ancoa
The London-based provider has applied itself to the specificities of fixed-income, currencies and commodities over the past year
Consultancy of the year: PwC
PwC goes back to basics to simplify how clients approach risk management
Paper of the year: PJ de Jongh, Tertius de Wet, Kevin Panman and Helgard Raubenheimer
South African academics pioneer a quick and easy way of estimating op risk capital