Information technology (IT)
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
Technology vendor of the year: Murex
As a technology vendor, Murex places adaptability front and centre of everything it does, constantly enriching its MX.3 platform to ensure institutions can respond to new market opportunities as soon as they spot them
Derivatives trading halved amid CrowdStrike tech outage
With broker screens offline, G3 rates derivatives volumes plunged versus a normal Friday
Op Risk Benchmarking 2024: the G-Sibs
Eleven large banks feature in round II, with new data points on first-line risk teams, taxonomies and AI adoption
Breaking out of the cells: banks’ long goodbye to spreadsheets
Dealers are cutting back on Excel amid tighter regulation and risk concerns
How Ally found the key to GenAI at the bottom of a teacup
Risk-and-tech chemistry – plus Microsoft’s flexibility – has seen US lender leap from experiments to execution
Energy Risk Software Rankings 2024: IT demands increase amid rising risk
Heightened geopolitical and credit risk increase requirements on commodities software
Top 10 op risks: third parties stoke cyber risk
High-profile hacks on market infrastructures and vendors expose linkage between top three risks
Beware war exclusions in cyber insurance, risk managers told
Risk Live: Experts say policy wording is tightening up following rise in ransomware attacks
The important role of information technology and internal auditing in risk management: evidence from Greece
The authors investigate the value of using information technologies in internal audit, finding that its effective use can help mitigate risks in business operations.
Nordea writes off €130m of intangibles after accounting change
Fourth quarter impairment charges fourteen times larger than year prior
Citrix Bleed hacks flag IT asset inventory shortfalls
To know what needs urgent patching, global banks first need to know what software they have
Will generative AI crack the code for bank tech teams?
Banks could roll out tools to help translate old – or write new – code within months
Maximum insecurity: banks tool up to meet cyber threat
Lenders confront “existential” threat of data leaks with bigger teams and better controls
FDIC security woes make banks sweat over supervisory data
Fears over confidential reporting after inspection urges regulator to address cyber “weaknesses”
New threats, old foibles prompt banks to switch GRC vendors
Op Risk Benchmarking: more than half of participants are reviewing or switching systems
Citi cyber chief says AI providing new weapons in hacking wars
Barron-DiCamillo also urges regulators to work with industry best practice, not against it
Top 10 operational risks for 2023
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Internet financial risk assessment in China based on a particle swarm optimization–analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation
The authors propose a comprehensive evaluation system to index internet financial risk, based on the identification of China's internet financial risk.
Markets Technology Awards 2022: the joy of flex
Tech users want the freedom to tweak and change their systems – not always an easy ask for rigid, legacy software
An approach to simultaneously assess operational risk and maturity levels in information technology management
The aim of this paper is to investigate the operational risk and maturity level of IT in an anonymized financial institution, based on the American Productivity and Quality Center benchmark and control objectives for information and related technologies.