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Advancing on all fronts
Sompo Global Weather continues to expand its offering with timely, tailored weather risk solutions designed to service a growing global audience and diversification into new sectors supplying responsive solutions
Ensuring reliability in a rapidly changing energy landscape
Igor Koprivnikar, member of the management board at Gen-i, discusses what sets the organisation apart as the top power dealer in eastern Europe, the benefits that a global portfolio can bring for clients in regional European markets, and how strong…
Machine learning, post-Brexit novation and a world after Libor
The week on Risk.net, March 10-16 2018
Regulatory merger keeps China on course for deleveraging
Combination of banking and insurance regulators offers opportunity to co-ordinate debt reduction measures
Asia moves: Corbally becomes ANZ’s chief risk officer as Williams retires
Latest job changes across the industry
Basel liquidity, last look and higher vol
The week on Risk.net, March 3-9, 2018
People moves: Barclays’ equities hire, Dahlgren joins Wells Fargo, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Swaps data: breaking down CCPs’ $750 billion funding bill
Amir Khwaja of Clarus FT considers how initial margin, variation margin and default fund contributions can quickly add up
A Brexit financial services deal and the 12 tasks of Hammond
UK call for turbo-charged equivalence with the EU faces big hurdles
Fed vs Fed: central bank faces traps of its own making
Fed’s balance sheet normalisation goal set to collide with its banking system resilience aims
Buyer beware: the FX code has not gone far enough
New standards for currency dealers have brought some big improvements, but many practices remain hazy
Next-generation GRC
Webinar: Nasdaq BWise
Focus on total return futures – How innovation opens up investment opportunities
Eurex asks Edouard Pelier, head of delta one and collateral trading, equity and commodity products at UniCredit Bank, and Ziad Kerbage, executive director of the equity derivatives group at JP Morgan, why market participants should trade total return…
Quantum computing, central clearing and the leverage ratio
The week on Risk.net, February 24–March 2, 2018
Multicurve modelling is about to get more complex
Research into rates pricing is becoming more urgent given recent regulatory changes
Podcast: Mercurio on Libor, fraud and writing models on a plane
Post-Libor environment and financial crime detection to drive future research, says top quant
Asia moves: Nomura hires in Hong Kong, HKEx shuffles board, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
The top 10 op risks – a field guide
Survey should be read as industrywide attempt to relay and share worries anonymously
Mifid II, volatility and the top 10 op risks
The week on Risk.net, February 17-23, 2018
LME CTO leaves, Cogolludo to head Citi commodities, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Bitcoin’s busy month
Bitcoin could give us a safer central clearing mechanism
Credit data: a tough year for South African financials
Default risk rose steadily for 36 firms during Zuma’s final months of rule, writes Credit Benchmark’s David Carruthers
Waiting for Giancarlo
CFTC no-action relief to be codified, but big changes on de minimis and position limits still distant
Top 10 operational risks for 2018
The biggest op risks for 2018, as chosen by industry practitioners