Technology
Complying with climate risk framework standards for streamlined processes
Conscious that climate change affects all sectors of the economy, financial institutions are realising the significant impact this will have on their customers and, ultimately, their own profit margins.
Credit risk, data and AI: managing spiralling demands and delivering value
Based on a comprehensive survey of, and conversations with, credit risk professionals globally, this report delves into their challenges they face in trying to source and use forward-looking data.
Podcast: Leveraging Real-time Data Feeds For Faster Business Decisions
The markets have been on a very volatile ride in 2022, which makes low-latency data more crucial to the business.
Making smarter decisions
Everyone working in the industry is aware that financial technology is changing the way we operate.
What brokers want: Technology, reliability and interoperability
This whitepaper sheds light on the extent to which brokers make use of single, integrated front-office platforms, their technology sourcing/development preferences, their most acute front-office operational and technology challenges, what they value most…
Decision science: From automation to optimisation
Despite its benefits, credit decisioning is severely lagging – average ‘time to decision’ for small business and corporate lending at traditional banks is between three and five weeks, while average ‘time to cash’ is nearly three months.
Risk applications and the cloud: driving better value and performance from key risk management architecture
Today's financial services organisations are increasingly looking to move their financial risk management applications to the cloud. But, according to a recent survey by Risk.net and SS&C Algorithmics, many risk professionals believe there is room for…
Risk applications and the cloud: boosting collaborations to strengthen risk management infrastructure
More of today's financial services organisations are choosing to move their financial risk management applications to the cloud.
The case for modularity and interoperability
This rapid read investigates the extent to which firms have optimized their entire trade lifecycles, the structure, challenges and interoperability of their front-office systems.
The post-trade patch-up: revamping processes in volatile times
This Risk.net Rapid Read survey report, commissioned by ION, examines the effectiveness and efficiency of post-trade processes and services at financial firms, and assesses where change is most needed, and the barriers to change.
Machine learning models: the validation challenge
Machine learning models are seeing increasing demand across the capital markets spectrum. But how can firms improve their chances of gaining internal and regulatory approval for these type of models?
Outsourcing Across the Buy Side - Look Before You Leap
This paper investigates the extent to which firms have embraced outsourcing across the industry, key benefits they can reasonably expect on the back of outsourcing business processes and technologies to a specialist third party, potential drawbacks of…
Key actuarial transformation trends across Apac in 2022
Digital transformation has resulted in growing market complexity. This has been heightened by both the introduction of more regulations for insurers and consumer demand for customised insurance coverage.
FX needs for Apac corporates in 2022
This white paper examines the results of a survey, conducted in association with Bloomberg, that offers insight into how corporations based in the Asia-Pacific region interact with the FX market.
Establishing an Institutional Brand - A Guide to Database Marketing
Cloud-based databases have become so comprehensive that investment consultants and asset owners now conduct manager research on an ongoing basis.
The economic impact of Covid on the US housing and mortgage market
Covid-19 has fundamentally reshaped consumer behaviour. Combined with drastic changes in federal government policy, the impact on financial markets will be long-lasting.
The Emir Refit Playbook
The upcoming Emir Refit regulation, set to enter the European Union’s statute books in the first half of 2024, is different in substance to the regulations preceding it, although the implications of complying with it are similar: firms will need to…
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
The report is essential reading for buy-side risk, investment and technology leaders looking to achieve a new level of analytical insight and drive a step-change in performance.
The World’s Fastest File System for Financial Services
Speed. Agility. Storage. In financial services, the need has never been greater.
Case study: Rabobank achieving strategic transformation with Murex MX.3
Crises throughout the last decades have led financial institutions to seek, devise and implement solutions to lower the cost of their operations, focus on their core businesses and speed up their go-to-market innovation.
High-Performance Storage for AI and ML
It’s a highly complex question with a deceptively simple answer: How do you win with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance, computing-based analytics? Speed.
Deploy a scalable distributed file system — rapidly, easily and affordably
Eliminate the complexity, cost and delays of configuring a distributed file system from multiple components and manufacturers. Hitachi Content Software for File lets you design and deploy a leading edge file system — now.
The landscape ahead for FX options desks: a Murex expert series
FX options desks face an increasingly complex and demanding context. The challenges they confront necessitate automation, digitization, proper risk and lifecycle management and sophisticated, leading analytics.
Crypto Investing — Asset Managers Have Left the Starting Block
Asset managers are diving into the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technologies — crypto currencies, digital assets and smart contracts — and are progressing faster than expected.