Artificial intelligence
Inside the company that helped build China’s equity options market
Fintech firm Bachelier Technology on the challenges of creating a trading platform for China’s unique OTC derivatives market
AI ‘lab’ or no, banks triangulate towards a common approach
Survey shows split between firms with and without centralised R&D. In practice, many pursue hybrid path
Everything, everywhere: 15 AI use cases in play, all at once
Research is top AI use case, best execution bottom; no use is universal, and none shunned, says survey
How AI agents could become investing’s crash test dummies
Firms mull the use of chatbot simulations to test organisational set-ups
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
Researchers, quants, strats – AI is coming for you
Survey IDs roles to be most impacted by front-office AI, but experts say many will change, not disappear
Front office open to AI promise
AI offers real potential for capital markets firms. But how disruptive, and how immediate, will the impact be?
For AI’s magic hammer, every problem becomes a nail
Risk.net survey finds banks embracing a twin-track approach to AI in the front office: productivity tools today; transformation tomorrow
AI and Trump tariffs spur hyped-up dispersion trade
Popular vol strategy pays off in January despite highest entry costs on record
How Citi moved GenAI from firm-wide ban to internal roll-out
Bank adopted three specific inward-facing use cases with a unified framework behind them
Quants try investing like Socrates, with help from AI
Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions
Mitigating model risk in AI
Advancing a model risk management framework for AI/machine learning models at financial institutions
Bloomberg offers auto-RFQ chat feed – but banks want a bigger prize
Traders hope for unfettered access to IB chat so they can build their own AI-enhanced trading tools
Transforming stress-testing with AI
Firms can update their stress-testing capability by harnessing automated scenario generation, says fintech advocate
The path to operational resilience begins with reliability and risk management
The challenges Apac financial services firms face enhancing operational resilience and leveraging data and hybrid cloud
Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2025
Fresh concerns this year include a trade war, a stock market crash and growing social discord
Review of 2024: as markets took a breather, firms switched focus
In the absence of major crises and rules deadlines, financial firms revamped strategy, services and practices
Revolutionising credit surveillance: part two
Does GenAI live up to the hype? How prioritising AI and digitisation projects reveals data as the power behind AI initiatives
Elevating risk management to a strategic partner in investment decision-making
Based on insights from a Risk.net webinar sponsored by S&P Global Market Intelligence, this article explores how risk management is evolving from a compliance role to a strategic partner.
Quant of the year: Julien Guyon
Risk Awards 2025: Volatility modeller par excellence (and football fan) achieved breakthrough with joint calibration of S&P and Vix options
An AI-first approach to model risk management
Firms must define their AI risk appetite before trying to manage or model it, says Christophe Rougeaux