Cross-jurisdictional activity accounted for 22.4% of systemic risk at global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) at the end of 2023 – the smallest share since end-2019. The risk indicator remained ...

The first time Alexei Kondratyev appeared on Quantcast, he predicted that quantum computers would be commercially available and commonly used by banks within five years.

The world’s largest asset manager is planning to launch a managed futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), a step that peers say will open the strategy to a pool of hundreds of billions of dollars of ...

Welcome to the latest edition of Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quantitative finance master’s programmes, and ranking of the top 25 courses. Although US courses occupy seven of the top 10 ...

Baruch College’s Master of Financial Engineering ranks first in the 2025 edition of Risk.net’s Quant Finance Master’s Guide, holding on to the top spot it clinched last year, amid strong demand for ...

In outline, the CrowdStrike outage in July illustrates why IT disruption continues to be a major bugbear for op risk managers ...

CME is planning to launch single-stock futures, with an initial focus on ‘Magnificent 7’ tech names including Amazon, Nvidia ...

Strategists at BlackRock say the idea of an anchor portfolio in asset allocation has become unhelpfully canonical – enshrined as if part of finance’s first principles, when it was never intended that ...

New rates head Laura Chepucavage prioritises collateral efficiency, e-trading and central risk book for enlarged rates, ...

The European Union’s ‘Fit-for-55’ climate stress test showed that the financial system was broadly resilient to transition risk barring any shocks – but for 13 banks, the baseline scenario would ...

A Swiss Parliament inquiry into Credit Suisse’s 2023 failure has criticised the “relaxation of capital requirements” granted by Finma, the country’s financial regulator.

The gamma profile of options dealers – reflecting the net end-of-day position that must be delta hedged – has become a keenly ...