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 has...
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, even...
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 social...
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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