Fintech
Stable mates: the interoperability of cryptocurrencies
Why central bank reserves could be a better option for backing stablecoins than Treasuries
Bank-backed futures utility criticised as too ambitious
Osttra’s Joanna Davies urges industry to look for “quick wins”
What can we learn from what a machine has learned? Interpreting credit risk machine learning models
This paper studies a few popular machine learning models using LendingClub loan data, and judges these on performance and interpretability
Asian banks bite back at big tech
Asia Risk 25: Asian lenders eye technology and data to help tame disruptors on their turf
Citi turns to fintech to boost FCM interest income
Clearing giant is optimising its treasury function to combat low rates and CCP fee hikes
AFM seeks to ‘level playing field’ for venues and vendors
Dutch regulator suggests some liquidity aggregators should be classified as OTFs
Moonshots shelved: banks spend on home-working tech
Dealers made success of remote working switch – now they’re investing in its future, and pausing grander ambitions
Ion forced to ditch Broadway rates business
Remedy satisfies UK competition watchdog – but “a big defeat” for acquisitive tech giant
Deutsche Börse to exit regulatory reporting business
Pricing war and cost pressures force service providers to reconsider regulatory reporting businesses
Treasurers turn to AI in bid for sharper forecasting
Wider automation could usher in future of ‘hands-free hedging’, but obstacles lurk in data standards and sharing
Taming the future: Hong Kong and China
Times are tough for Hong Kong, but it remains the best-positioned financial centre to access China
Bank disruptors: SocGen’s call to start-ups
Fintechs and ‘intrapreneurs’ are leading Societe Generale’s digital transformation
Haitong taps NLP to inform collateral coverage
Hong Kong broker scours news and blogs in bid for better corporate signals in China’s opaque markets
Bank disruptors: tread carefully and bend things
How BofA, SocGen, JP Morgan, Nomura, UBS and others are disrupting themselves
Asia lenders usher in year of the virtual bank
The surge in online banking is informing risk technologies in traditional banks
Law firm of the year: Allen & Overy
Risk Awards 2020: Not just "stodgy lawyers", fintech incubator gives A&O a headstart on automation
The end of the fintech gold rush?
Why did so many new fintech start-ups fail, and how can ‘fintech 2.0’ succeed, asks consultant
JP Morgan turns to start-up to manage CME margin
Bank also weighing whether to bring its business at two other clearing houses on to Baton platform
Europe’s regulators grope for value of software
In the US, the cost of software is not taken out of capital. Europe is fumbling for something similar
NLP sniffs out contracts harbouring Eonia as fallback
Test finds wide range of 4,000 Libor euro contracts examined could end up in the flagging Eonia rate
A tech-driven transformation
A panel of experts explores how greater collaboration between risk and finance teams can garner significant benefits and add value, how technological innovation is making the regulatory landscape more complicated to navigate and produce transformative…
Risk and finance – Better together
Changing regulations and new accounting standards are creating enormous challenges for financial organisations. Thorsten Hein, principal product marketing manager, risk research and quantitative solutions at SAS, explores why, to successfully meet these…
JP Morgan’s Hudson: innovation stuck in trading web
Risk Live: Digital head floats shared platform, rather than “point solutions”