Artificial intelligence
CTRM software house of the year: ION
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Software firm stands out for its wide and expanding portfolio, new technology use and impressive client growth
Innovation of the year – Technology: Cumulus9
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Disruptive technology firm harnesses AI to create transformative risk management capabilities
Technology project of the year: Centrica Energy
Energy Risk Awards 2025: Energy firm’s AI team positively disrupts trade lifecycle processes with raft of innovative AI tools
Optimising AI and cloud transformation to modernise financial services in a dynamic regulatory landscape
Financial institutions are leveraging AI to modernise their infrastructures while navigating regulatory priorities and challenges
Banks seek to advance predictive pricing models
AI and machine learning-based tools could give FX desks the power to forecast currency movements
Evalueserve tames GenAI to boost client’s cyber underwriting
Firm’s insurance client adopts machine learning to interrogate risk posed by hackers
OCC’s security chief on generative AI with guardrails
Clearing house looks to scale technology across risk and data operations – but safety is still the watchword
Why AI will never predict financial markets
Laws that govern swings in asset prices are beyond statistical grasp of machine learning technology, argues academic Daniel Bloch
Top 10 op risks: AI arms race leaves risk teams playing catch-up
As firms invest for fear of being left behind, op risk managers urge caution on data, controls and access
The future of risk and insurability in the era of systemic disruption, unpredictability and artificial intelligence
The authors demonstrate the fragile nature of traditional risk management techniques in the face of frequent high-impact shocks and advocate for a new approach that treats disruption as systemic rather than episodic.
DeepSeek success spurs banks to consider do-it-yourself AI
Chinese LLM resets price tag for in-house systems – and could also nudge banks towards open-source models
Commodity price insurance, an alternative to swaps?
ChAI founder eyes metals and power for expansion after selling first hedges for recycled materials
Top 10 operational risks for 2025
The biggest op risks as chosen by senior practitioners – and what they’re doing about them
Top 10 op risks: cyber still top, but change management surges
AI-enhanced threats permeate this year’s top operational risks for financial firms, from infosec to geopolitics
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
Tech firm OneChronos to offer ‘bundled’ equity-FX trading
New auction algorithms will optimise multi-leg trades; FX roll-out due in second quarter
The robot-labeling phenomenon: robot-ready modern operational risk management
The author highlights misuse of the term "robot" in banking practice and the literature, proposes the robot-labelling phenomenon and recommends a shift in approaches to operational risk management to address challenges of the synthetic era.
Banks urged to track vendor AI use, before it’s too late
Veteran third-party risk manager says contract terms and exit plans are crucial safeguards
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?