Technology
Perps extend the menu to tempt TradFi diners
Expiry-less futures are spreading from bitcoin into gold, equities and FX. Institutions are watching, not buying
A tidal wave of token costs threatens landfall
Soaring token usage is forcing financial firms to rethink the economics of modern enterprise AI
Red alert: how Nasdaq’s Smarts became surveillance blind spot
Software that looks for shifty trades has been asleep on the job, affecting alerts for hundreds of products
CTRM software house of the year: Hitachi Energy
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Software developer’s portfolio approach meets changing needs of energy market participants
Fragmented rules obstruct tokenisation efforts, panellists say
Divergent US, UK and EU stablecoin rules and legal protections limiting cross-border growth
Climate risk service of the year: First Street
First Street helps institutions translate climate science into asset-level intelligence that supports investment, lending and risk decisions
Integrated risk management software of the year: TS Imagine
TS Imagine’s integrated risk platform helps clients monitor exposures across markets, counterparties and asset classes amid increasingly complex trading environments
Best in-house ALM technology: EFG Bank
The EFG ALM Risk Suite has shifted ALM from a retrospective reporting exercise into a forward-looking, strategic discipline
Credit data provider of the year: Moody’s
As financial institutions seek faster, more contextualised credit insights, Moody’s has combined proprietary datasets, domain expertise and agentic AI to help clients make more informed risk decisions
AI autonomy may redefine risk management roles
Risk Live: Machine validation of autonomous processes may emerge “relatively soon”, EIF risk chief says
Treat AI models as would-be hackers, says quant
Risk Live: Models capable of “strategic deception” require different risk management, says former Risk.net quant of the year
Four in five banks use AI to manage op risks
Risk Benchmarking: Cyber risk use cases growing; governance and ROI doubts give some pause
Build, or buy: banks still don’t love their GRC vendors
Risk Benchmarking study finds a record number of firms reviewing tech provision for top op risks, amid touted wave of AI-led self-builds
EU banks welcome high-risk systems breather from delay in AI act
But chatbot transparency still applies from August, requiring deployers to disclose use to customers
Trading desks urged to bolster cross-market surveillance
Artificial intelligence could help track market abuse across different instruments and venues
Second line seeks to stamp its authority on AI risk
Risk Benchmarking study finds fragmented accountability for AI risk among banks, and most are short of controls to contain it
Op Risk Benchmarking 2026: explore the data
View interactive charts from Risk.net’s 61-bank study, covering risk appetite breaches, controls, scenario analysis, GRC tech and regulation
Is alt data betting on prediction markets?
While offering a rich source of new data, legal uncertainties remain
AI could shrink trader roles – markets heads
DekaBank, BNPP AM see hedging, risk position management and bond markets as ripe for robots
Regulators question human-in-the-loop as AI governance tool
Bank of England and FSB executives suggest it’s more important to retain overall accountability
Why bank stablecoin projects get stuck in the sandbox
Five years ago, a wave of banks launched stablecoin projects, but most never got beyond the testing phase