Technology
How machine intelligence can help banks beat financial crime
Faced with massive financial crime challenges, many banks have responded by scaling up their functions. However, these investigations take way too much time and require unending growth in person-power
Risktech start-ups: survival of the fittest?
A new breed of vendors could change the face of risk management, if they can hang around long enough
Shaping the future of risk and finance with analytics
As global financial institutions face changing compliance targets, demand has emerged for new ways to improve efficiency and increase the integration of regulatory and finance initiatives into organisations’ business‑planning processes
Symphony bots march on Bloomberg
New chat system touted as sales and trading game-changer, as banks build hundreds of add-ons
Podcast: Lo on adaptive regulation, machine learning, bitcoin
MIT quant says next project will be to combine behavioural science with tech such as machine learning
Mark Yallop on conflicts in fixed income
Banks and their clients need protocol on information sharing, says FMSB chair
Actionable data breach insights from op risk modelling
Thomas Lee, chief executive at VivoSecurity, and Martin Liljeblad, operational risk manager at MUFG Americas, examine how a data breach cost model can replace an advanced measurement approach in a structured scenario
Planned sale prompts hard look at post-trade firms
Plans to sell MarkitServ fuel warnings about middleware vendors’ future
AI models prompt banks to strengthen governance
Risk managers want ‘transparency and clarity’ around AI-based models
Banks explore new data techniques to tackle money laundering
Artificial intelligence in tandem with human analysis seen as effective for know-your-customer
Trade data initiatives aim to unify regulatory reporting
Standardised data would improve systemic risk monitoring and save firms billions, say data engineers
From prophets to ‘parasites’
How post-trade vendors went from problem-solvers to ‘rent-seekers’
The battle for the back office
Post-trade incumbents at risk as Isda and others search for standards
Next-generation GRC
Webinar: Nasdaq BWise
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
Top 10 op risks 2018: organisational change
Banks fear pace of technological change will leave them exposed; others worry they could be superseded altogether