Technology
Banks upgrade liquidity tests to cope with volatile world
Risk Live: Greater need to assess modern threats from technology transformation
Reshaping risk and trading workflows
LSEG’s strategic partnership with Microsoft is reshaping how financial services are built, delivered and experienced
Stablecoin consortia may be ‘interim’ step to solo bank issuance
Former Citi payments head and Ubyx founder says all G-Sibs will issue their own coins
Report once: will Esma’s €1bn reforms deliver the full picture?
Critics say plan to merge three reporting regimes will see scant returns, and won’t mesh with single-sided reporting
Perps extend the menu to tempt TradFi diners
Expiry-less futures are spreading from bitcoin into gold, equities and FX. Institutions are watching, not buying
AutoRek redefines reconciliation through operational excellence
Delivering operational excellence in an evolving financial ecosystem
Repo tokens won’t be cleared. Or will they?
Uncertainty lingers over clearing status of tokenised Treasuries, with decision likely devolved to DTCC
Rapid-fire repo raises hopes of cheaper, faster trading
Tokenised Treasuries piloted by DTCC could squash settlement cycles and enable 24/7 repo
A tidal wave of token costs threatens landfall
Soaring token usage is forcing financial firms to rethink the economics of modern enterprise AI
Red alert: how Nasdaq’s Smarts became surveillance blind spot
Software that looks for shifty trades has been asleep on the job, affecting alerts for hundreds of products
CTRM software house of the year: Hitachi Energy
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Software developer’s portfolio approach meets changing needs of energy market participants
Fragmented rules obstruct tokenisation efforts, panellists say
Divergent US, UK and EU stablecoin rules and legal protections limiting cross-border growth
Climate risk service of the year: First Street
First Street helps institutions translate climate science into asset-level intelligence that supports investment, lending and risk decisions
Integrated risk management software of the year: TS Imagine
TS Imagine’s integrated risk platform helps clients monitor exposures across markets, counterparties and asset classes amid increasingly complex trading environments
Best in-house ALM technology: EFG Bank
The EFG ALM Risk Suite has shifted ALM from a retrospective reporting exercise into a forward-looking, strategic discipline
Credit data provider of the year: Moody’s
As financial institutions seek faster, more contextualised credit insights, Moody’s has combined proprietary datasets, domain expertise and agentic AI to help clients make more informed risk decisions
AI autonomy may redefine risk management roles
Risk Live: Machine validation of autonomous processes may emerge “relatively soon”, EIF risk chief says
Treat AI models as would-be hackers, says quant
Risk Live: Models capable of “strategic deception” require different risk management, says former Risk.net quant of the year
Four in five banks use AI to manage op risks
Risk Benchmarking: Cyber risk use cases growing; governance and ROI doubts give some pause
Build, or buy: banks still don’t love their GRC vendors
Risk Benchmarking study finds a record number of firms reviewing tech provision for top op risks, amid touted wave of AI-led self-builds
EU banks welcome high-risk systems breather from delay in AI act
But chatbot transparency still applies from August, requiring deployers to disclose use to customers