Technology and Data
Advances in technology and data are transforming every facet of the capital markets. From banks deploying sophisticated analytics to better model capital exposures, or leveraging cloud technology to scale stress-testing capabilities and build new risk applications. To asset managers sifting alternative data to gain competitive insight or using intelligent algorithms to activate trading strategies in milliseconds, Risk.net’s coverage explores the potential and limitations of new technologies such as AI, machine learning and blockchain, and the challenges for regulators in keeping pace with cutting-edge innovation.
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Holistic credit risk assessment and the goal of safe unbiased modelling
In this Asia Risk webinar, experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning examined the growing applications being seen in the field and their merit in credit risk modelling
Faster than the speed of crime: how cloud-enabled fincrime strategies are helping firms fight back
The volume and complexity of financial crime has surged. In a webinar convened by Risk.net and sponsored by NICE Actimize, experts in this field explored five themes around safeguarding your institution and customers from fincrime with the speed and…
NIT protocol expanded among plans to electronify the full bond lifecycle
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How energy risk managers are responding to extreme volatility
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The future is now: how data science is revolutionising risk management and finance
This webinar explores how your organisation can move beyond legacy technology, better meet investor demands and remain competitive by embracing the future of finance.
Staying ahead of financial crime: powered by the cloud
A webinar exploring how to safeguard your institution and customers from financial crime with the speed and agility of the cloud
KWA Analytics spearheads CTRM modernisation drive
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The importance of enterprise resilience alongside rapid digital transformation
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital and organisational transformation for many companies but, as leaders across industries note, this has also made them more vulnerable to new risks. In this feature, ServiceNow explores why further change is…
The importance of preparation and technology in a world of risk
This webinar explores the implementation of smart technologies to transform risk management strategies and improve risk teams’ credibility within and influence on the wider business
Fraud and compliance 2.0: wising up to next-generation technology and boosting payment fraud detection
Fraud can take place due to checks occurring too late in the payment process, after the payer believes the payment has been confirmed. This webinar explores how simplifying the payment process by connecting compliance directly at the point of payment…
Shaping the future of risk and finance with analytics and integrated technology
This webinar explores how to enhance business planning activities, while accelerating regulatory demands with limited resources amid a need to derive greater value from the analytic lifecycle
The relentless rise of real-time data
Rob Lane, head of real-time feeds at Refinitiv, discusses the changing data needs of banks and buy-side firms and how the cloud is helping improve access to a key source of competitive advantage
Digital transformation and the future of GRC
This Risk.net survey report explores the impact of digitalisation on financial firms, and the changing strategies, resources and technology deployed by the governance, risk and compliance function
Leveraging a hybrid cloud for better decision‑making
At a Risk.net webinar in association with open-source solutions provider Red Hat and analytics services provider SAS, panellists discussed how financial institutions can leverage the hybrid cloud to analyse data, reach trustworthy decisions and maximise…
Moving targets: the new rules of conduct risk
How are capital markets firms adapting their approaches to monitoring and managing conduct risk following the Covid‑19 pandemic? In a Risk.net webinar in association with NICE Actimize, the panel discusses changing regulatory requirements, the essentials…
Four assurance mega-trends shaping risk management
For business leaders, the idea of a world changed forever is giving way to a new reality – a world forever changing. As Paul Butcher, chief executive officer at LRQA, explains, the implications for risk management are dramatic and, as a result,…
Leveraging liquidity scores and pricing data in portfolio trading
In this podcast, Zoi Fletcher, associate commercial editor, Risk.net, talks to Matt Walters, head of product, portfolio trading at MarketAxess, about how data analytics is improving outcomes in portfolio trading, the optimal situations in which it should…
Climate risk takes scenario analysis and stress-testing to the next level
Financial institutions are facing several challenges as they prepare for the transition risk journey that will see them evaluating their existing risk and finance solutions. Ludwig Dickens, client advisor, risk business consulting, at SAS discusses what…
Data analytics set to fuel change in the oil market
Privileged data insight is no longer the sole preserve of the world’s oil conglomerates. Access to insightful analytics is providing a new competitive edge for smaller and mid-sized commercial and trading firms in the oil market, helping them navigate…
The FRTB challenge: banks brace for further uncertainty
The widely anticipated implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) hit another obstacle when the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision pushed back the roll-out by another year to January 2023. With different jurisdictions…
UMR efficiency: optimising systems and processes for IM compliance
UMR are among the biggest collateral management issues faced by investors in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. At a specially convened session sponsored by IHS Markit at Risk.net’s Buy-Side Risk Global event, panellists discussed the latest phases of…
Sending the right signals: quantifying and repricing risk
Risk.net convened a panel of three experts from different fields to discuss some of the most pressing and pertinent climate-risk related issues, each offering different insight to the discussion from their respective backgrounds, providing an exchange of…
Managing physical and financial risk in today’s volatile commodities markets
This webinar examines what firms are doing to modernise their IT systems to get better control on their risk measures and key performance indicators across their physical and financial businesses.
Driving greater value in credit risk and modelling
A forum of industry leaders discusses the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and strategies to adapt to a more stringent regulatory framework in the future