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The Infinite Surface: AI as Risk Amplifier
July 10, 2026
Artificial intelligence is not a risk category – it is the infrastructure through which every other risk now travels, and governing it requires a ...
A CRO's Perspective on Emerging Risks: AI, Geopolitics and Enterprise Resilience
July 8, 2026
Toronto: Join the GARP Toronto Chapter for a fireside chat with Shyam Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at HomeEquity Bank. In ...
Built In, Not Bolted On: AI Risk Management Belongs in the Architecture
July 2, 2026
Regulators are evaluating artificial intelligence based on its domain, not its model architecture. This is how the financial industry has typically ...
Anthropic's Mythos: Frontier AI Shakes Up Cybersecurity and Regulation
July 2, 2026
A select group of corporations gets early access to powerful agentic software, and the U.S. administration alters its anti-intervention posture.
Governing the Machine: How the RAI Prepares Professionals for an AI-Driven World
June 23, 2026
AI is no longer on the horizon. It’s already embedded in credit decisions, compliance workflows, trading systems, and beyond. But with that power ...
Managing the Risks of Agentic AI Requires a Lens of Its Own
June 18, 2026
When systems autonomously make and execute decisions, “the challenge is no longer securing models,” JPMorgan says. “It is securing agents operating ...
KYB Compliance: Can AI Separate Risk Signal from Noise?
May 29, 2026
Manual processes can’t keep up with business onboarding and due-diligence demands. Enhanced, AI-driven productivity can also boost competitiveness.
AI Meets Instinct: The Human Relationship Still Defines Real Estate Lending
May 15, 2026
“Algorithms can crunch numbers at speed, but they cannot replicate the value of reputation, sector expertise, or the trust built across the table.”
Taking Back Control of AI Alignment – from the Inside
March 27, 2026
Regulation and standardization can go only so far in delivering effective governance and alignment of artificial intelligence. To step into the ...
Skills Wanted for the AI Age: Agility, Flexibility, Resilience
March 13, 2026
“Clinging to outdated hiring practices” is characterized as “a critical business risk.”
Modernizing Credit Risk Management in Turbulent Times
March 13, 2026
Three years since the Silicon Valley Bank failure, volatility and other risks are on the rise. Artificial intelligence solutions are more available ...
Bruno Dupire, Quantitative Research Head at Bloomberg, Is Financial Engineer of the Year
March 6, 2026
The latest Northfield/IAQF honoree, who initiated development of the BQuant platform and runs the Bloomberg Quant seminars, has made influential ...
SR 11-7 in the Age of Agentic AI: Where the Framework Holds – and Where It Strains
February 27, 2026
As the U.S. model risk management guidance is challenged by technological advances, it “remains one of the few stable reference points for model ...
From Black Boxes to Boardrooms: How Banks Must Govern Artificial Intelligence
February 20, 2026
“AI is no longer an innovation story. It is a governance story.”
In Memoriam: John C. Hull
February 18, 2026
The late University of Toronto professor leaves “a rich legacy of pedagogy” and “an impact on the risk profession, and on the FRM designation, that ...
The House of AI: Why the Smallest Details Matter in a Regulated World
February 13, 2026
New construction can be impressive on the outside, but uninhabitable without plumbing, wiring and other necessities. The generative AI analogy: “A ...
AI in Risk Management: Preparing for the RAI Exam
January 15, 2026
As organizations integrate AI into their operations and business strategies, it’s critical for business leaders, risk managers, and young ...
AI Adoption in Risk and Compliance: Revolution or Evolution?
November 14, 2025
Acceptance is growing, and efficiencies are identifiable. Radical, groundbreaking transformation? Not so much.
AI and Governance Gaps, from the Boardroom on Down
November 14, 2025
Regulators and thought leaders have been insisting for years that corporate directors raise their IT familiarity and comfort levels. Surveys indicate ...
Chatbots Can Go Awry. Is There an Insurance Hedge for That?
October 10, 2025
Innovative strategies emerge as the risks of generative AI raise concerns about legal liability outside of what conventional cyber policies cover.
Why U.S. Financial Firms Are Cautious on AI for Surveillance – and What Needs to Change
September 26, 2025
Implementation challenges and costs can make ROI seem elusive. Data-driven and “risk-informed” strategies help unleash the technology’s power.
Leveraging AI to Make Everyone a Risk Manager
September 11, 2025
Sponsored by Protecht Group Unlocking the full potential of risk management lies not in adding more systems or processes, but in tapping into the ...
Boston Think Tank Brings Ethical AI Principles into Governance, Finance, Banking and Blockchain
August 15, 2025
Led by co-founders including ex-Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston Global Forum and their AI World Society promote international and multidisciplinary ...
Democratizing AI: A Heavy Lift for Compliance
July 25, 2025
The governance and data-protection potential of the OpenAI for Countries initiative.
Agentic AI: On the Frontier of Autonomy
June 13, 2025
The capabilities build on, and go beyond, those of generative AI. The risks are still there.
The EU AI Act: A Risk Manager's Roadmap
June 6, 2025
New regulation in Europe should motivate financial risk institutions across the globe to rethink how they build, deploy and govern AI-driven models. ...
The Need for Responsible AI: A Q&A with Xiaochen Zhang
May 30, 2025
Financial institutions are using AI for everything from data processing to fraud detection and even quantitative risk modeling, but they need to be ...
Frugality at Scale: India’s Bid to Be an AI Contender
May 16, 2025
Although not yet on a par with the U.S. or China, India has vast IT resources, proven nationwide digitalization capabilities, and an accelerated, ...
Inside the Mind of a Buy-Side CRO
April 8, 2025
Hear from Peter Mortensen, the chief risk officer of Russell Investments, about inflation volatility, tariffs, liquidity risk, AI threats and ...
The Dangers of AI: Don’t Forget the Human Factor
March 28, 2025
Is AI manipulation by people a larger threat, to both the financial services industry and society at large, than the technology itself becoming ...
Risk Management and the Fifth Industrial Revolution
March 21, 2025
As the relationship between humans and AI evolves, “the way we think about the management and optimization of risk will be transformed.”
The Place for Generative AI in Risk Management
March 14, 2025
What are the pros and cons of the next wave of AI? Though technology like ChatGPT is flawed and must always be validated, it is proving its worth in ...
Technology Risk Lessons from the Rise of DeepSeek
February 28, 2025
The rapid ascension of a relatively obscure Chinese AI provider should cause financial institutions and their risk managers to rethink the way they ...
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 ...
How AI Could Transform Asset Management and Financial Risk
December 13, 2024
AI in finance remains prone to occasional errors, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in communication between different systems. But ...
Managing the Risks of GenAI Models
November 6, 2024
Join us for an insightful discussion with Agus Sudjianto and Arpit Narain on the effective and safe application of Generative AI Models (GenAI). This ...
Use of Generative AI in Financial Services
October 18, 2024
The Risk Snapshot Series highlights key insights from GARP’s quarterly survey of Financial Risk Managers (FRM®) about critical risk issues global ...
Generative AI: Trends, Benefits and Risks
October 17, 2024
Hear from Bo Xu, a Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a member of GARP’s Risk and AI Advisory Committee, about GenAI use cases and ...
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 ...
For This Data Scientist and Risk Manager, AI Is a Compelling Next Step
September 6, 2024
“The evolution of my career path” through data, risk and quantitative research brings AllianceBernstein’s Andrew Chin to chief artificial ...
Real-time Customer Decisions in the Age of AI
August 30, 2024
Hear from Terisa Roberts, Global Head of Risk Modeling and Decisioning at SAS and Sarah Murphy, Principal Director of Accenture Data and AI, as we ...
Chief, Czar, or Committee: Who Rules Over AI?
August 16, 2024
For a technology affecting business activities across the board and facing its own set of legal, risk and operational challenges, a chief artificial ...
AI on the Buy Side: Risks, Challenges and Opportunities
July 25, 2024
Nirav Shah, a founding partner at Versor Investments, speaks with GARP editorial director Robert Sales about the pros and cons of artificial ...
A Big Tech Arms Race Is Fueling the AI Boom. Are Productivity Gains or Business Efficiencies in Sight?
July 3, 2024
Some of the billions of investment dollars make their way into risk and other enterprise-level solutions, but the big payoffs will take time to ...
Evolving AI: Threats and Opportunities
June 28, 2024
Financial institutions are clearly benefitting from machine learning and generative AI, but a recent academic research paper shed some light on a new ...
The Potential Impact of Generative AI on Risk Careers: A Q&A with Michelle Liposky
May 31, 2024
The latest innovation in AI continues to transform the day-to-day jobs of risk managers. In which risk areas has generative AI gained traction, and ...
Harness the Power of AI With GARP’s New Risk and AI (RAI™) Certificate
May 28, 2024
As organizations integrate AI into their operations and business strategies, it’s critical for business leaders, risk managers, and young ...
How Extreme – and How Manageable – Are the Risks of AI?
May 17, 2024
Concerns are voiced about excessive energy consumption, biases, privacy invasions, and even the fate of humankind. “Responsible AI” alone won’t ...
Risk Management and Generative AI: A Matter of Urgency
March 15, 2024
Identifying safeguards as risks come into view.
Pros and Cons of Generative AI: A Quantitative Analysis
March 1, 2024
Artificial intelligence is changing the risk modeling landscape. Financial institutions are evaluating whether they can gain an edge through the ...
Will ChatGPT Break Financial Markets?
January 26, 2024
Generative AI models have the potential to alter the trading landscape significantly. Risk managers have learned lessons from the dramatic impact of ...
AI Risk: The Inefficiencies of Existing Oversight, and What FRMs Can Learn From Science Fiction
December 22, 2023
Regulations and government guidelines for AI are flawed and do not address the key risks presented by this complex, fast-evolving technology. ...
How Generative AI Can Solve a Traditional Risk Modeling Problem
December 8, 2023
Financial risk modelers are now using generative AI to work more efficiently. Though the technology is still not yet fully developed, modelers can ...
Artificial Intelligence and the Revolution in Financial Crimes Compliance
November 22, 2023
Federated machine learning can enable companies to detect financial crime at a lower cost without sharing their data. Gary M. Shiffman, Shelly ...
To Combat Money Laundering, AI Tools Come Off the Shelf and In the Cloud
November 10, 2023
Weapons for fighting financial crime and fraud are increasingly powerful and accessible, but they must be well orchestrated to be effective.
AI, ML, Blockchain, Crypto and CBDCs: Risks and Opportunities of Disruptive Tech
October 30, 2023
Hear from Wall Street veteran and author Aaron Brown about the impact of fast-evolving technology on risk management. Financial institutions are now ...
Harm Reduction: A Strategy to Mitigate the Risks of AI
October 27, 2023
AI advancements have brought a lot of potential benefits to the financial system, but also come with risks. To minimize the impact of negative ...
Generative AI: The Next Wave in Credit Assessment?
October 13, 2023
Banks must now consider how the latest advancement in AI can help risk analysts measure consumer and corporate credit.
Transforming Risk Management with Generative AI
October 6, 2023
The next generation of AI is not flawless, but could very well be used to identify and rank threats, democratize data and analytics, and improve ...
Large Language Models, Security and Privacy
August 25, 2023
Effective corporate culture and governance practices are paramount, a top information security executive writes.
Does Visualization Improve the Explainability of ML Models?
July 28, 2023
Machine-learning models are being used by more and more financial institutions to improve the accuracy of credit risk forecasts. Sophisticated ...
AI Regulation Is On the Way – But Not So Fast
June 23, 2023
The financial industry faces as much uncertainty and need to prepare as any other. Its regulatory experience may prove to be an asset.
Managing the Risk of Large Language Models Like ChatGPT
June 9, 2023
The fast-moving new technology requires risk assessments and policies that impose necessary control without stifling innovation
AI’s Inroads in Investment Management
May 12, 2023
Signals are cutting through the noise, but there are limitations still to be overcome
AI ‘Digital Workers’ Take on AML, Risk and Compliance Tasks
March 31, 2023
Even as the technology brings relief to overstressed departments, human “boots on the ground” remain indispensable
The Use of AI/ML in Risk Management
March 17, 2023
The Risk Snapshot Series highlights key insights from GARP’s quarterly survey of Financial Risk Managers (FRM®) about critical risk issues global ...
AI in Banking: Past, Present and Future
January 20, 2023
The growth of artificial intelligence in the financial services industry has been somewhat kept in check by regulators, but risk managers still make ...
To Maximize Artificial Intelligence’s Value, We Have to Let It Do Its Thing. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
November 23, 2022
Technology subject to real-world laws, contracts and company policies needs elements of human judgment, subject-matter expertise and legal counsel
Machine Learning and Risk Management: A Q&A with Professor John Hull
August 5, 2022
U.S. Seeks Expert Insights on Artificial Intelligence
July 15, 2022
Explainable Machine Learning Models of Consumer Credit Risk
February 24, 2022
In the financial services community, ML models are currently being used for everything from credit underwriting to forecasting to fraud detection and ...
Addressing Bias and Fairness in AI Systems
November 1, 2021
In this episode, we will continue with part three of a four-part series looking at Responsible AI (Listen to part one: Alternative Data in Risk ...
Explainable/Interpretable AI
October 4, 2021
In this episode, we will continue with part two of a four-part series looking at Responsible AI (Listen to part one: Alternative Data in Risk ...
Predicting VIX with Adaptive Machine Learning
July 8, 2021
Can the power of machine learning be harnessed to forecast the daily CBOE implied volatility index? Yunfei Bai and Charlie X. Cai answer this ...
Machine Learning Predictions of Credit and Equity Risk Premia
May 6, 2021
The emergence of algorithmic high-frequency trading has given rise to new AI-driven methodologies for predicting credit risk. The University of ...
Big Data and AI: Impact and Opportunities for the Financial Risk Space
April 12, 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming the ways in which financial institutions manage risk. Driven by a proliferation of data ...
Model Risk Management in the Age of AI and ML
July 7, 2019
For the second half of our focus on Model Risk Management, we spoke with Tomasz Mostowski and Luther Klein from Accenture about the impacts of ...
Transforming Trade Finance Compliance Through Machine Learning and Natural Langu
May 29, 2019
At the SAS Global Forum, we caught up with Valeria Sica, Managing Director, Head of Global Trade Services and Jake Jacobson, Technology Advisory ...
Operationalizing AI and Risk
April 4, 2019
Over the years, GARP and SAS have worked together many times to bring to risk practitioners unique insights on a variety of topics related to ...