Artificial intelligence
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
BNPP ups efforts to weed out skew sniffers
French bank deploys skew sensitivity algo to help identify predatory behaviour
Artificial intelligence in crisis management: a bibliometric analysis
The authors carry out a bibliometric analysis of academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence applications in crisis management and propose potential new directions for researchers in this field.
Revolutionising financial data with large language models
With the integration of LLMs, LSEG is reshaping data analytics, utilisation and management
Beware the macro elephant that could stomp on stocks
Macro risks have the potential to shake equities more than investors might be anticipating
Elevating financial crime compliance and data management through AI
AI, process automation and strategic data management can effectively combat financial crime. However, the power can be in the hands of good and bad actors
UBS embraces ‘narrative alpha’ for new form of sentiment strategy
NLP engine traces how stories spread, instead of counting words
Banks must loosen up on ChatGPT use – risk chiefs
Risk Live: ’Shadow use’ and inability to attract new hires mean restricting access to GPTs is untenable
Quantum cognition machine learning: financial forecasting
A new paradigm for training machine learning algorithms based on quantum cognition is presented
Banks urged to keep regulators in the loop on AI plans for AML
Risk managers advocate five-year strategies and compliance teams’ ownership of the tech they use
Only human: the secret of reliable LLM workflows
Examining the strengths and limitations of LLMs and insights into how to integrate them into business workflows