Artificial intelligence
Why AI will never predict financial markets
Laws that govern swings in asset prices are beyond statistical grasp of machine learning technology, argues academic Daniel Bloch
Top 10 operational risks for 2025
The biggest op risks as chosen by senior practitioners – and what they’re doing about them
Top 10 op risks: cyber still top, but change management surges
AI-enhanced threats permeate this year’s top operational risks for financial firms, from infosec to geopolitics
Inside the company that helped build China’s equity options market
Fintech firm Bachelier Technology on the challenges of creating a trading platform for China’s unique OTC derivatives market
Tech firm OneChronos to offer ‘bundled’ equity-FX trading
New auction algorithms will optimise multi-leg trades; FX roll-out due in second quarter
The robot-labeling phenomenon: robot-ready modern operational risk management
The author highlights misuse of the term "robot" in banking practice and the literature, proposes the robot-labelling phenomenon and recommends a shift in approaches to operational risk management to address challenges of the synthetic era.
Banks urged to track vendor AI use, before it’s too late
Veteran third-party risk manager says contract terms and exit plans are crucial safeguards
AI ‘lab’ or no, banks triangulate towards a common approach
Survey shows split between firms with and without centralised R&D. In practice, many pursue hybrid path
Everything, everywhere: 15 AI use cases in play, all at once
Research is top AI use case, best execution bottom; no use is universal, and none shunned, says survey
How AI agents could become investing’s crash test dummies
Firms mull the use of chatbot simulations to test organisational set-ups
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
Researchers, quants, strats – AI is coming for you
Survey IDs roles to be most impacted by front-office AI, but experts say many will change, not disappear
Front office open to AI promise
AI offers real potential for capital markets firms. But how disruptive, and how immediate, will the impact be?
For AI’s magic hammer, every problem becomes a nail
Risk.net survey finds banks embracing a twin-track approach to AI in the front office: productivity tools today; transformation tomorrow
AI and Trump tariffs spur hyped-up dispersion trade
Popular vol strategy pays off in January despite highest entry costs on record
How Citi moved GenAI from firm-wide ban to internal roll-out
Bank adopted three specific inward-facing use cases with a unified framework behind them
Quants try investing like Socrates, with help from AI
Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions
Mitigating model risk in AI
Advancing a model risk management framework for AI/machine learning models at financial institutions
Bloomberg offers auto-RFQ chat feed – but banks want a bigger prize
Traders hope for unfettered access to IB chat so they can build their own AI-enhanced trading tools
Transforming stress-testing with AI
Firms can update their stress-testing capability by harnessing automated scenario generation, says fintech advocate
The path to operational resilience begins with reliability and risk management
The challenges Apac financial services firms face enhancing operational resilience and leveraging data and hybrid cloud