Artificial intelligence
Baruch, Princeton cement duopoly in 2026 Quant Master’s Guide
Columbia jumps to third place, ETH-UZH tops European rivals
Quantcast Master’s Series: Kihun Nam, Monash University
Melbourne-based programme winks at pension fund sector
XVA desks prioritise core tech upgrades over AI
Vendor upgrades, cloud-native rebuilds and sensitivities tooling dominate 2026 budget road maps
Quantcast Master’s Series: Petter Kolm, Courant Institute
The NYU programme is taught almost exclusively by elite financial industry practitioners
Quantcast Master’s Series: Laura Ballotta, Bayes Business School
The business school prioritises the teaching of applicable knowledge with a keen eye on the real world
Almost two-thirds of banks now run XVAs on cloud
Risk Benchmarking study finds a majority of big dealers tapping cloud capacity, some exclusively, with others migrating
For tomorrow’s quants, Python is essential; AI isn’t
Proportion of PhDs in quant teams is sliding, as employers focus on all-round skills
Quantcast Master’s Series: Dan Stefanica and Jim Gatheral
Baruch College leaders on how they manage the top-ranked quant finance master’s programme
Treasury market urged to beef up operational resilience plans
NY Fed panel warns about impact of AI and reliance on critical third parties
Lloyds draws a (second) line on AI risk
Model risk office is accountable for managing the risk of AI roll-out at the UK bank
Tomorrow’s Quants: what it takes to be a next-gen modeller
Employers increasingly prize mix of hard and soft skills, Risk.net survey reveals
How conflict sharpened Israel’s role in cyber security
Recent growth in offshoring of infosec comes despite regulatory focus on supply-chain resilience
Bond investors diverge on AI’s rates impact
While many agree the technology will drive growth, questions remain over the timing and inflationary impact
How FCA could help tackle third-party risk in AI
UK regulator’s supercharged sandbox is designed to boost explainability and reduce reliance on vendors
AI as pricing law
A neural network tailored to financial asset pricing principles is introduced
The AI explainability barrier is lowering
Improved and accessible tools can quickly make sense of complex models
Cyber risk triggers alarm bells for credit portfolio managers
Attack on Jaguar Land Rover highlights difficulties modelling unpredictable impact of outages
First line of defence dominates third-party risk management
1LoD survey finds 86% of control functions think they have sole responsibility for vendors
Robinhood looks to ‘Chaos Monkey’ for op resilience playbook
Risk Live North America: US broker is ditching emails, using chaos engineering and automating everything in sight
How staff exodus could leave the OCC high and dry
A third of staff set to depart US regulator, but some teams will suffer much heavier losses
Most banks add ERM heads – but CROs keep control
Hiring tilts towards AI, cyber and model risk as enterprise risk’s remit grows faster than its reach