Analysis
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2025
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Rising star in quant finance: Milena Vuletić
Risk Awards 2025: Machine learning-based volatility model confounds sceptics
Technology vendor of the year: Numerix
Risk Awards 2025: Fincad and PolyPaths deals added coverage; AAD and cloud refactoring boosted speed
Derivatives client clearer of the year: Societe Generale
Risk Awards 2025: French dealer rides CTA wave with 9.6% jump in US clearing business
OTC trading platform of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2025: French bank raises Cortex from nadir of pandemic through partnerships and cohesive strategy
Exchange of the year: Eurex
Risk Awards 2025: Eurex jolts credit futures market into life
Hedge fund of the year: Citadel
Risk Awards 2025: In a year without tall trees, Citadel’s forest of strategies thrived
Investment house of the year: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2025: World’s largest investor is undergoing its biggest transformation in more than a decade
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Côte d’Ivoire
Risk Awards 2025: Dual-tranche $2.6 billion deal enables African sovereign to refinance costly private loans and improve debt sustainability
Credit portfolio manager of the year: UniCredit
Risk Awards 2025: A focus on economic value-added prompted a rapid expansion of the bank’s synthetic risk transfer activity
Bank risk manager of the year: Intesa Sanpaolo
Risk Awards 2025: Market risk team developed new tools that helped overcome the challenge of FRTB internal models
Flow market-maker of the year: Natixis
Risk Awards 2025: Flow push pays off, with FX and rates volumes almost doubling year-on-year
Risk solutions house of the year: Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
Risk Awards 2025: Bank-wide co-ordination spurs creative solutions including ‘umbrella’ deal contingent swap
Structured products house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: bulked-up structuring team is more than just the sum of its parts
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Natixis
Risk Awards 2025: French bank’s hedge fund push boosts its flow standing and creates repack risk offsets
Credit derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2025: Continued investment in credit has created a virtuous circle of growth, as cash products support derivatives, and vice versa
Equity derivatives house of the year: Bank of America
Risk Awards 2025: Bank gains plaudits – and profits – with enhanced product range, including new variants of short-vol structures and equity dispersion
Currency derivatives house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: Access to wealth management client base helped Swiss bank to recycle volatility and provide accurate pricing for a range of FX structures
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2025: Steepener hedges and Spire novations helped clients navigate shifting rates regime
Derivatives house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: Mega-merger expected to add $1 billion to markets revenues, via 30 integration projects
Law firm of the year: Linklaters
Risk Awards 2025: Law firm’s work helped buttress markets for credit derivatives, clearing and digital assets