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Caveat creator: GenAI giants’ pledges won’t pre-empt copyright suits
Tech vendors offer indemnities on generative output, but end-users need to check the fine print, warn IP lawyers
Banks call for direct oversight of cloud providers by US regulators
Tri-opoly of cloud vendors “poses systemic risk” to financial sector, say risk managers
Optical computer beats quantum tech in tricky settlement task
Microsoft’s analog technology twice as accurate compared to IBM’s quantum kit in Barclays experiment
Correlation ‘is not causation’ for rates and value stocks
Some quants remain unconvinced by the ‘great rotation’ away from growth
Fed hiring more staff to examine cloud providers
OpRisk North America: regulator wants to put more “boots on the ground” at firms such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft
Clouding the issue: blurred lines divide banks and servicers
Banks clash with big three cloud service providers over data security and configuration errors
Language barrier: quants slog to teach investing bots to read
Training models to interpret text can be dull; doing it badly can be costly
Technology vendor of the year: NICE Actimize
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Cloud solution provider of the year: Murex
Asia Risk Awards 2021
Mizuho EU CRO reveals his top risks – they may surprise you
Fears over technology dominate Wolfgang Koehler’s list of greatest risks for Mizuho’s EU unit
Deep XVAs and the promise of super-fast pricing
Intelligent robots can value complex derivatives in minutes rather than hours
Regulators voice concerns over cloud risk
Risk USA: failure of big cloud service provider could cause “a very large shock”, says NY Fed exec
Esma calls for full audits of cloud providers
Regulator says firms must negotiate access rights to books and premises of providers
From DNA to DHA – Preparing for a new era of digital human augmentation
As technology increasingly permeates societies, cultures and everyday activities, its integration into people’s lives is having a profound impact on what is expected of people in the workplace. Deloitte examines this evolution of today’s workforce, the…
Financial firms toil to meet new EU rules on outsourcing
Negotiating right to audit vendors, including cloud providers, seen as toughest requirement
European renewables turn to corporates as states retreat
Can corporate PPAs help smooth European power market transformation?
Quants needed: how finance can use power of quantum tech
New machines have big potential in AI, valuations and VAR, but tech giants like IBM need help from practitioners
Cloud set to replace in-house tech for banks
‘No other way’ to meet demands of FRTB, XVA and other changes, claim proponents
Acadian ends social media data ties with Microsoft Bing
Quant asset manager says it finds more use in orthodox sources of data
Corporate risk manager of the year: Microsoft
The first US clearing mandates came into force last year in three separate phases. While most corporates looked to take advantage of the corporate hedging exemption, Microsoft decided right from the start to voluntarily clear everything
Aggregation versus aggravation
Corporate statement: SunGard