Articles by Risk.net staff
Review of 2024: as markets took a breather, firms switched focus
In the absence of major crises and rules deadlines, financial firms revamped strategy, services and practices
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
Clearing house of the year: LCH
Risk Awards 2025: LCH outshines rivals in its commitment to innovation and co-operation with clearing members
Exchange of the year: Eurex
Risk Awards 2025: Eurex jolts credit futures market into life
Derivatives house of the year: UBS
Risk Awards 2025: Mega-merger expected to add $1 billion to markets revenues, via 30 integration projects
Hedge fund of the year: Citadel
Risk Awards 2025: In a year without tall trees, Citadel’s forest of strategies thrived
Rising star in quant finance: Milena Vuletić
Risk Awards 2025: Machine learning-based volatility model confounds sceptics
Quant of the year: Julien Guyon
Risk Awards 2025: Volatility modeller par excellence (and football fan) achieved breakthrough with joint calibration of S&P and Vix options
Lifetime achievement award: Don Wilson
Risk Awards 2025: DRW founder has created a firm in his own image – one that defies definition
Markets Technology Awards 2025: Untangling the knots
Vendors jockeying for position in this year’s MTAs, as banks and regulators take aim at counterparty blind spots
Risk Awards 2025: The winners
UBS claims top derivatives prize, lifetime award for Don Wilson, JP Morgan wins rates and credit
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
Investment house of the year: BlackRock
Risk Awards 2025: World’s largest investor is undergoing its biggest transformation in more than a decade
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
Law firm of the year: Linklaters
Risk Awards 2025: Law firm’s work helped buttress markets for credit derivatives, clearing and digital assets