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GARP 2025 Financial Risk Symposium
March 6, 2025
With today’s ongoing geopolitical tensions, macroeconomic uncertainty, and rapid advancements in technology, it’s clear the role of the risk ...
The Six-Letter Word That Unites AI Factions
January 10, 2025
As debates rage over whether artificial intelligence is benign or evil and how it should be regulated, there is unity around the objective of ...
Reflections on the Past 25 Years: What Risk Managers Have Learned from the Technology Revolution
October 25, 2024
Engineering geniuses have greatly altered the way risk practitioners perceive the financial services industry and evaluate future scenarios.
Generative AI Has Made Banking Cheaper - But Has It Made It Better?
September 27, 2024
Large language models, like ChatGPT, have ushered in a new wave of AI that should savebanks time and money, and perhaps mitigate some risk. But there ...
Syndicated Loan Trading: An Automation Laggard No More
September 20, 2024
Big-bank-backed Octaura and Versana are delivering on their promises for data and operational modernization.
What Recent Turmoil Tells Us About Technology Risk Management Principles
August 23, 2024
The trading market suffered an ETFs-driven shock in early August. For technology risk managers, that event should serve as a reminder of the power of ...
What Risk Managers Can Learn from the Roots of Modern Technology
July 26, 2024
Technology is ubiquitous in risk management today, and its uses and potential dangers are too numerous to list. Risk practitioners must comprehend ...
The Intersection of Compliance and Resilience
April 9, 2024
Sponsored by Fusion Risk Management Operational resilience is top of mind at both global regulators and financial services firms. Whether you are a ...
How Blockchain Technology Can Streamline an Investment Value Chain
March 22, 2024
Eliminating intermediary steps and inefficiencies isn’t merely theoretical. A property lending firm’s CTO explains.
Bank of America Quantitative Strategies Leader Is Named Financial Engineer of the Year
February 16, 2024
International Association for Quantitative Finance honors Leif Andersen, also affiliated with NYU and Carnegie Mellon, as "both an academic and a ...
Is Institutional-Grade Blockchain Ready for Its Great Leap Forward?
February 2, 2024
Perceiving an inflection point for digital assets, DTCC joins with international peers in a call for order, collaboration and standardization.
Could Speedier High-Frequency Trading Prompt the Next Market Meltdown?
October 20, 2023
Traders and market makers are pushing hard for faster HFT, claiming it will result in more liquid and more efficient markets. But a proposed speed ...
Quantum Computing: Breakthrough Performance Comes with High-Stakes Perils
September 8, 2023
Although the fully realized technology is years away, it is advancing incrementally, and risks are coming into focus
A Brave (and Risky) New World: The Gig Economy Comes for Hedge Funds
June 23, 2023
The most rapidly growing segment of the hedge fund industry is a gig business model that offers more freedom to managers and investors – and could ...
Facing the Reality of Real-Time Payments: Are Anti-Fraud Protections Up to Speed?
June 16, 2023
FedNow, a milestone for the U.S., launches in July. Artificial intelligence will be on guard.
Helyette Geman, of Johns Hopkins and Birkbeck, Is Financial Engineer of the Year
February 17, 2023
“Research across disparate topics” and “extensive career of important contributions” earn IAQF/Northfield honor
Risk Management: DeFi Lending and Borrowing
February 9, 2023
Decentralized finance promises a new and efficient way of enabling access to financial services, but it does not come without sizeable risks. Kashish ...
Distributed Ledgers and Digital ID: A Logical Match for KYC?
November 18, 2022
Identity verification and authentication are key to electronic commerce and the further digitalization of financial services and other businesses, ...
The Ethereum Merge: A Smoother On-Ramp for Institutional Finance?
September 23, 2022
Energy-efficient blockchain may be more hospitable to ESG-minded investors; crypto market risks still loom large
Fintech Innovation: What Does It Mean for FRMs?
September 9, 2022
Regulatory efforts are being outpaced by the progress being made by financial technology companies. How will the growth of fintechs impact the ...
The Rise of Low Code: A Productivity Breakthrough with Caution Flags
September 2, 2022
As major banks and others empower “citizen developers,” operational risks and “shadow IT” need vigilance
Embedded Applications: New Revenue and New Risks for Banks
July 22, 2022
Do Artificial Neural Networks Provide Improved Volatility Forecasts?
January 20, 2022
Stock market volatility forecasting is an important component of measuring and managing investment risks. Mehmet Sahiner, David G. McMillan and Dimos ...
The DeFi Paradox: Risks and Opportunities
July 29, 2021
By reducing the costs and risks of using centralized intermediaries, decentralized finance promises cheaper and more open access to financial ...
GARP Presents: The New Age of Risk Analytics Podcast
April 22, 2019
Sweeping changes to regulations and accounting standards, breakneck advances in technology and the emergence of innovative competitors are upending ...
Paxos and the Quest to Institutionalize Blockchain
November 5, 2018
In 2015, Paxos (then known as itBit) became the first firm active in the emerging digital asset and blockchain business to obtain a New York State ...