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Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2026
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2026: No financing; no long-dated swaps? “No distractions,” says Esposito
Derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: Rev up, RWAs down, as US bank gets back on track (with added XiNG and XiP)
Technology vendor of the year: SS&C Algorithmics
Risk Awards 2026: From cloud, to chips, to maths tricks – vendor getting more out of existing tech
Risk solutions house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2026: Diverse range of transactions puts French bank’s innovative skills in the frame
Credit portfolio manager of the year: Standard Chartered
Risk Awards 2026: Bank brings synthetic risk transfer to new jurisdictions and develops new tools to improve balance sheet flexibility
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: Vantage point in US and European markets gave bank perspective that helped it pull ahead of the pack
Equity derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2026: Volatility strategies and technology investment help realise hyper scale-up
Credit derivatives house of the year: Barclays
Risk Awards 2026: Move to central risk book model for bonds brings more hedging flexibility and helps boost market share
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: US bank gets CPI swaption market off the ground and expands cross-market trading capabilities
Structured products house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2026: Innovative structures such as the catapult helped propel US issuance to new heights
QIS house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2026: Intraday delta hedging helped dispersion strategies perform well, particularly during Trump tariff tantrum
Sovereign risk manager of the year: The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Republic of Colombia
Risk Awards 2026: An audacious total return swap helped the national treasury reduce its debt stock and servicing costs while reducing dependence on dollar financing
Investment house of the year: Manulife Investment Management
Risk Awards 2026: Risk team learns to speak the language of PMs, with impressive results
Hedge fund of the year: LMR Partners
Risk Awards 2026: Lessons learned in 2020 prepared LMR to handle this year’s volatility
Buy-side quants of the year: Petter Kolm and Nicholas Westray
Risk Awards 2026: Study provides proof that simple is best when it comes to AI in finance
Exchange of the year: CME Group
Risk Awards 2026: Price discovery remained remarkably resilient as volumes set records
リスクアワード2026の受賞者
シティグループがデリバティブ部門で最優秀賞を獲得、デニス・マクラフリン氏が生涯功労賞を受賞、JPモルガンが株式部門で勝利
Currency derivatives house of the year: Bank of America
Risk Awards 2026: Early call on dollar weakness helped bank break vega records in April and quickly recycle 95% of risk
Lifetime achievement award: Dennis McLaughlin
Risk Awards 2026: When the stakes are systemic, ex-Princeton prof is never far away
Quants of the year: Vladimir Lucic and Alex Tse
Risk Awards 2026: Quants broke silence on option market-making models with an algorithm that accounts for portfolio risk
OTC trading platform of the year: Reactive Markets
Risk Awards 2026: Through April tumult, Reactive kept fill rates near 100% and latency below 50 microseconds
Derivatives client clearer of the year: Citi
Risk Awards 2026: When tariffs rocked markets, Citi’s FCM was a model of reliability