Data
Portfolio traders turn to tech – A new generation of strategies
Chris Bruner, head of US credit product at Tradeweb, explores the products that can help managers express portfolio views and how they can maximise the benefits they can reap by evaluating and understanding the price, risk and relative value of each…
Using data and innovation to drive business insights
Survey and report: How banks can develop unified finance and risk solutions to drive innovation, operational excellence and productivity
Use-cases for Mifid II data prove elusive
Banks running market share analysis from trade reports, but data quality hampering other projects
Nowcasting can illuminate China’s macro scene
Nowcasting teams are proving a valuable tool for investors
Regulatory compliance – The new business enabler
Leila Szwarc, global head of compliance and strategic regulatory services at TMF Group, explains how Asia-Pacific organisations can cultivate a more robust approach to compliance amid data privacy concerns and the changing local and international…
Brexit to deliver further blow to Mifid transparency data
Market participants say duplicate reports in UK and EU will result in misleading public data
A blueprint for alternative data in asset management
UBS Asset Management’s data chief describes how alternative data can aid the investment process
Top 10 op risks 2019: theft and fraud
Rogue employees are costly, but the thought of cyber mayhem dominates managers’ concerns
Top 10 op risks 2019: outsourcing and third-party risk
Perfecting internal controls is meaningless when lax oversight of outsourcing offers back-door vulnerability
Top 10 op risks 2019: Brexit
UK departure from European Union could result in “every operational risk you’ve ever seen”
Top 10 op risks 2019: data compromise
Big data provides big target for hackers, as banks wrestle with risk of monetary and reputational loss
Firms fear Mifid-style reporting crunch for Brexit day one
Operational clarity still needed to fully implement system changes in time for April 1
Credit data: a new PD story for Brazil and Mexico?
One has been sliding, the other stable, but the stage appears to be set for a break from those trends
Asset managers brave patchy data to nowcast China’s GDP
Techniques include using many datasets, relying on proxies and continually reviewing models
Responding to regulatory change in Apac – Part 3 of 3
How can firms turn compliance into a source of competitive advantage?
Responding to regulatory change in Apac – Part 2 of 3
How can firms turn compliance into a source of competitive advantage?
Tackling local compliance in an increasingly globalised world
TMF Group’s Leon Mao, head of family business and wealth solutions in Hong Kong, explores the pressing challenges of addressing both local and global regulations to minimise regulatory and reputational risk in the Asia‑Pacific region
Responding to regulatory change in Apac – Part 1 of 3
How can firms turn compliance into a source of competitive advantage?
Mifid data publishers drag feet on Esma guidelines
Four publishers yet to align post-trade data format with Q&A issued eight months ago
Honesty is key to machine learning’s future – Roberts
Oxford-Man Institute director on why tomorrow’s models will gracefully admit defeat
Blazing new analytical paths: Tackling data aggregation for new risk insights
As the risk function’s influence continues to grow within financial services firms, demand for quality integrated risk data to support a wider range of business-critical decisions is stretching the capabilities of existing technology to breaking point. A…
Data mining, machine learning and problems with autocalls
The week on Risk.net, January 19–25, 2019