Artificial intelligence
XVA desks prioritise core tech upgrades over AI
Vendor upgrades, cloud-native rebuilds and sensitivities tooling dominate 2026 budget road maps
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
When AI models malfunction, address the problem not the math
Governance of artificial intelligence models should focus on actionable outcomes rather than interpretability, argues former chief regulator
Rates investors unmoved by stories of AI bliss, or doom
Research shows downward moves in US Treasury yields around generative AI model releases
Geopolitics, crypto and inequality are systemic risks, say panellists
ESRB conference attendees discuss threats to EU’s financial system
Untangling corporate actions data complexity
LSEG is developing AI capabilities and leveraging expert validation to bring structure and speed to corporate actions data
SNB researchers test LLM-based FX trading strategy
Meta’s Llama 3.1 comes out top predicting G10 currency sentiment based on news articles