Risk systems
Identity verification solutions 2023: market and vendor landscape
This report analyses the current identity verification solutions landscape and examines the key market trends, regulatory drivers and vendor strategies shaping it
Sponsored video: Philip Moyer, Amazon Web Services
Philip Moyer, Enterprise Cloud and Financial Technologies, Amazon Web Services, discusses the biggest government, regulatory and compliance (GRC) challenges organisations face today, how moving to the cloud can help firms prevent potential cyber attacks…
Cloud control
Time-stretched energy traders are crying out for faster, smarter risk management systems. OpenLink has answered the call with its trading and risk management cloud that offers transformative possibilities to individual firms and the industry as a whole
Algorithmic execution: Harnessing technology to manage risk
Technological innovation continues to provide market participants with access to increasingly sophisticated risk management tools and strategies. Senior executives at HSBC discuss how organisations can make the most of cutting-edge solutions such as…
Interview: Zar Amrolia on liquidity provision
Former co-head of Ficc at Deutsche Bank believes non-banks will become essential source of liquidity for banks
Technology – Solving the new equation of capital markets
Since the financial crisis in 2008, banks have seen an erosion of margins in their over-the-counter derivatives businesses as they get to grips with new regulations and risk measures. As market participants adapt to the new market structure, there are…
Structured products desks join the AAD revolution
Dealers in the structured products market have begun applying adjoint algorithmic differentiation to a variety of complex pricing and analytics problems, with a staggering increase in computation speeds as a result. But challenges remain before the…
Options Panelists: Algos are the New Hope — and Target — in Cyber Wars
The closing panel at the Options Industry Conference 2015 in Miami Beach covered the year's most trendy topic: cyber security. Firms are quickly catching up, Tim Bourgaize Murray reports, as both sides of the battle become more sophisticated — with…
Data sharing platform unites banks against cyber crime
Big banks unite behind cyber security information sharing platform that could change the way cyber crime is combated
Supervisors slam banks over 'top 20' counterparty results
After five years of work, a group of 19 big banks still get a failing grade from supervisors on their ability to pull together and report counterparty exposures. Is it all a question of cost? Fiona Maxwell reports
Aggregation versus aggravation
Five years have elapsed since the onset of the financial crisis and, at the behest of regulators, firms have scaled back many of the risky activities they engaged in at the time. But, if another crisis emerged tomorrow, too many institutions would still…
Credit Suisse extends ICPPI hedging platform
Swiss bank adds SunGard data service to reduce operational barriers for insurers
Liability modelling speeds boosted by computer games technology
As insurers look for ways to improve the speed of their modelling calculations, some are turning to microprocessors originally developed for computer graphics in games consoles to increase calculation times. But while graphical processing units can…
Basel challenges big banks to improve risk data aggregation
Drawing together and managing vast amounts of risk data is a vitally important skill for today’s large banks, and regulators recently gave the industry some new standards to which it should aspire. But the ideal is still some way from reality. By Clive…
White paper: Competing in a new highly regulated industry - how banks need to consider their IT infrastructure
The global credit crisis exposed the weaknesses inherent in the risk management and IT infrastructures employed by banks. Learn how these weaknesses can be overcome to increase competitiveness and reduce risks.
Chip and win: Banks expand use of GPUs
As computational demands on banks have increased, some have turned to powerful graphics processing units, but these were initially applied at the transaction pricing level. Now, they are starting to cover portfolio valuations and other enterprise-level…
Insurers look to technology to improve operational risk management
In the absence of clear regulatory guidance, insurers are developing their own best practice for managing operational risk, and investing in the necessary technological tools that enable them to do so. Clive Davidson reports
Technology providers look to the cloud to meet insurers’ modelling challenges
Cloud technology potentially offers insurers an efficient way to undertake the huge amount of actuarial and risk modelling calculations that need to be performed. But with concerns around data security and reliability, is it really a fail-safe option?…
Asia looks to cloud computing
Rapid technological advances mean that financial institutions in Asia are looking to cloud computing solutions as an alternative to investing in internal infrastructure. But regulators around the region are cautious about the potential pitfalls involved
White paper: How to use compliance as a competitive advantage in banking
We're at a critical turning point for risk, finance and compliance functions in the banking sector. Faced with the dual pressure of increased regulatory activity and ongoing economic pressures, organisations are looking to transform the role of these…
White paper: Setting the Stage for FATCA Compliance
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act stands to transform the global tax framework and how financial institutions track and report on their clients’ financial assets. With the law slated to come into effect in 2013, its implications and how financial…