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The most volatile risk factor of 2025 has been tariffs, and technology has arguably been the sector most impacted.
Aaron Brown
While the tariff policy changes we’ve seen under the Trump...
May 2, 2025 | By Aaron Brown
When I read about technology risk today, or speak with other risk managers, software disruptions dominate the discussion. However, there are also many hardware ideas around that could cause radical...
January 30, 2025 | By Aaron Brown
Artificial intelligence systems for trading, factor identification and portfolio construction have not been able, to date, to communicate with each other effectively. But the technology is constantly...
December 13, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Risk management has been forever changed by technological innovation. The roots of this boom date back centuries, but disruption-loving engineers have made a particularly huge impact on the financial...
October 25, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
A rapid unwind of carry trades on August 5 was one of the biggest financial events of the last month. Although there seems to be no lasting damage from the market turmoil, the mechanism by which it...
August 23, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Risk managers who want to take advantage of technology cannot simply have access to it. Whether we’re talking about, say, cybersecurity or machine learning or blockchain or digital currencies, to...
July 26, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Artificial intelligence is seemingly ubiquitous in financial services today. Still, disruption and instability threats remain, and a new academic paper has raised another AI concern: reversibility.
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June 27, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Today, “technology risk” extends to everything from, say, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and cybersecurity to data, digital currencies and cloud computing. That’s a stark...
May 10, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Just as many risk managers are struggling with newly-mandated climate risk disclosure, nature risk reporting has appeared on the horizon. Forward-thinking managers therefore at least need to think...
March 28, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Critics of cryptocurrencies, ranging from senior regulators to well-known politicians to renowned economists and investors, have grabbed headlines by highlighting the potential of these instruments...
February 23, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are threatening to disrupt most areas of life and work. Financial trading is no exception.
Earlier versions of machine learning (ML) and artificial...
January 26, 2024 | By Aaron Brown
Runaway artificial intelligence has been a major concern of science fiction at least since the 1909 publication of E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, but it took 114 years to get serious official...
December 22, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
High-frequency trading (HFT) is already lightning fast, but there is currently a proposal on the table to make it even speedier. What are the potential advantages and drawbacks of this possible...
October 20, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
Risk managers involved in cryptocurrencies or niche blockchain applications have had to think about both the positive and negative novel risks of blockchain for 15 years now, but we seem to be...
September 22, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
The general business press usually fails to distinguish between financial control professionals and experts concerned with financial statements, tax accounting, audits and other reports generated for...
July 28, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
Hedge funds exert outsized influence on financial markets because they employ aggressive trading and high leverage. The world learned this in 1992, when George Soros broke the Bank of England – and...
June 23, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
What is the central goal of risk management? A common wrong answer is, “To predict and prevent disaster.” The issue with this response is that at least half of risk management is maximizing...
May 26, 2023 | By Aaron Brown
Some of us hate it, others love it, but at least we can all agree that networking is a very important business skill. The ability to accumulate connections that provide relevant business information...
May 28, 2021 | By Peter Went
Amid the pandemic, as banks rapidly transformed their core businesses to serve their customers, the digitization of banking has given rise to new model risk management challenges.
Decision-making...
April 30, 2021 | By Peter Went
Cryptocurrencies have long been heralded as the future of finance, but it wasn't until 2020 that traditionally conservative and risk-averse institutions became proactive investors in this complicated...
March 19, 2021 | By Peter Went
The financial services industry is becoming rapidly transformed by the shift toward online banking products and services, where models driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have risen to prominence....
February 19, 2021 | By Peter Went
Earlier this year, in just a few weeks, COVID-19 forced greater adoption of innovative technologies and accelerated a worldwide digital transformation. In financial services, operating models and...
October 23, 2020 | By Peter Went
To improve alpha, quantamental portfolio managers combine fundamental analysis with various quantitative approaches. By identifying patterns and statistical relationships across fundamental and...
August 7, 2020 | By Peter Went
The most endearing sketches of Little Britain, a BBC comedy show, features a character named Carol Beer. Carol always responds to a customer's enquiry by typing into her computer and responding,...
July 10, 2020 | By Peter Went
Even as the world gradually reopens, traditional banks are facing an uncertain future, rife with vanishing revenues, huge projected credit losses, declining earnings and stiff digital banking...
June 12, 2020 | By Peter Went
Fearing the risk of community transmission during the SARS pandemic, users in Asia flocked to a small online e-commerce company, Alibaba, helping it reshape e-commerce and finance. Persistent...
May 1, 2020 | By Peter Went
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the economy, society and financial institutions. While the long-term effects are uncertain, we know that the global pandemic will fundamentally transform...
April 9, 2020 | By Peter Went
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