Analysis
Quant Guide 2019: City, University of London
Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), London, UK
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2019
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, featuring a ranking of the top 15 schools
People moves: SocGen adds in prime services, Deutsche fills new rates hole, HSBC makes model move, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Bank risk manager of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2019: Bank heeds lessons of past structured products routs to navigate February volatility
Degree of influence: are machines starting to learn finance?
This year's analysis recognises a turning point in machine learning applications
People moves: Asia hires at Credit Suisse, new UBS data role, NatWest takes UBS’s Duclos, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Currencies flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2019: Credit innovation opens up market-making to previously out-of-reach customers
Asia moves: BlackRock picks new Asia head, Credit Suisse boosts regional solutions, and more
Latest job changes across industry
Technology vendor of the year: FIS Global
Risk Awards 2019: Software engineers respond to new challenges in traded risk
Clearing house of the year: CME Clearing
Risk Awards 2019: Clearer moved early to ramp up default resources and counter threat of February volatility spike
Risk solutions house of the year: HSBC
Risk Awards 2019: UK bank helped get Italian NPLs moving; revamped sales effort unlocked host of diverse deals
Clearing house innovation of the year: Eurex Clearing
Risk Awards 2019: CCP’s incentive scheme takes on LCH to capitalise on Brexit uncertainty
Buy-side quant of the year: Gordon Ritter
Risk Awards 2019: Quant uses new tech to tackle old problem of optimal execution
OTC infrastructure service of the year: Quantile Technologies
Risk Awards 2019: Compression provider has been quick to respond to market needs, say dealers
Sovereign risk manager of the year: Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency
Risk Awards 2019: PDMA’s innovative €35bn swap programme helps slash sovereign’s interest rate payments
Buy-side risk manager of the year: Citadel
Risk Awards 2019: hedge fund CRO is intent on steering clear of the “history trap”
Lifetime achievement award: Craig Broderick
Risk Awards 2019: Goldman’s long-serving CRO helped bank survive the crisis, and then adapt to new world
Quant of the year: Alexei Kondratyev
Risk Awards 2019: A glimpse of the future? Quant uses ML to model term structure and crunch margin costs
OTC trading platform innovation of the year: Tradeweb AiEX
Risk Awards 2019: Expansion of automation tool to swaps trading supports soaring derivatives volume
Inflation derivatives house of the year: HSBC
Risk Awards 2019: Revamped repack making waves
OTC trading platform of the year: Trad-X
Risk Awards 2019: From a D2C Clob to CCP-specific pricing, Trad-X isn’t scared to rock the boat
Quant research team of the year: Deutsche Bank
Risk Awards 2019: Deutsche’s quants dig for alpha
Equity derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk Awards 2019: US dealer shrugged off Steinhoff loss to make timely risk-off call before Vix surge
Insurer of the year: Rothesay Life
Risk Awards 2019: Bulk annuity deal unlocks £1 billion of capital in Prudential’s strategic split