Technology
Asia embraces intelligent automation
Asia’s adoption of new tools and processes has gained significant momentum, with increased automation now a primary focus for many financial firms. Paul Worthy, head of Japan at Tradeweb, explores how this change has come about, and how firms can use the…
Institutional ETF trading: Liquidity improving, trade sizes growing
Sponsored survey report: Jane Street
Cryptocurrencies: king’s ransom or fool’s gold?
Extreme volatility makes products an unreliable store of value – for now
Commerzbank hires new cyber chief for Americas
Thomas Kartanowicz will oversee cyber risk and information security
A call to arms – How machine intelligence can help banks beat financial crime
The revolution in artificial intelligence promises new leads in banks’ fight against dirty money. Alexander Campbell of Risk.net hosted a live online forum, in association with NICE Actimize, to investigate the applications of this emergent technology
Disruptive change in US power markets: Identifying risks and embracing opportunities in the new world of digital
Power markets worldwide are experiencing disruptive changes on a bigger scale and with greater speed than many had anticipated. Now, more than ever, it is essential to understand opportunities and risks associated with these changes
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