Technology
How can banks drive value from risktech investment?
Jeroen van Doorsselaere and Steve Hostettler, Wolters Kluwer Finance Risk and Regulatory Reporting, discuss the key findings from a recent Risk.net survey exploring the challenges, priorities and trends influencing risk teams’ investment decisions and…
The hidden effects of stress on risk takers
Trader turned neuroscientist urges financial firms to monitor trader physiology, hire fewer physicists
DBS chief executive on fighting tech disruptors with data
Asia Risk 25: Data and AI are top technology priorities for Singapore bank, says Piyush Gupta
Asian banks bite back at big tech
Asia Risk 25: Asian lenders eye technology and data to help tame disruptors on their turf
Diginex chief on taming the Wild East of cryptocurrencies
Asia Risk 25: Singapore-based digital exchange wants to bring respectability – and regulation – to the sector
Machine learning will create new sales-bots – UBS’s Nuti
Technologists working to automate indications of interest from trading desks
Regulators voice concerns over cloud risk
Risk USA: failure of big cloud service provider could cause “a very large shock”, says NY Fed exec
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2020: The winners
BNPP wins top derivatives award, with Macquarie scooping environmental products house
To offset US sanctions risk, banks bake in China loan clauses
Global lenders seek to hedge against the threat of US sanctions on China – which seems unlikely to ease under Biden
Ion-Broadway merger approved with strings attached
Broadway chief executive Tyler Moeller leads consortium to buy divested fixed income business
IFRS 9 product of the year: AxiomSL
Asia Risk Technology Awards 2020
AML bill will swamp financial crime teams, banks warn
Proposed US legislation could force firms to run new and old systems in parallel, stretching resources
Banks rent ready-made algos for FX trading
NatWest, XTX Markets and others develop new outsourcing model for tech
Accelerating fixed income’s risk‑on rise
Jason Waight at MarketAxess reveals how advances in data and technology are enabling faster, more agile risk-on trading strategies in today’s fixed income markets
Science friction: some tire of waiting for quantum’s leap
Use cases for new tech are piling up – from CVA to VAR. But so are the obstacles
Dutch banks seek quantum edge for stress tests
ABN, ING and Rabobank working together; US quantum developer seeks patent for CCAR
Indexed for growth – The democratisation of thematic indexes
Simon Karaban, head of index services at Singapore Exchange, talks about environmental, social and governance indexes and how the emergence of exchange-traded funds and wealth platforms is democratising thematic indexes, making them more accessible to…
AFM seeks to ‘level playing field’ for venues and vendors
Dutch regulator suggests some liquidity aggregators should be classified as OTFs
House of the year, Philippines: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Vendor for system support and implementation of the year: Finastra
Asia Risk Technology Awards 2020
GRC product of the year: Financial Risk Solutions
Asia Risk Awards 2020