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Decision science: From automation to optimisation
Despite its benefits, credit decisioning is severely lagging – average ‘time to decision’ for small business and corporate lending at traditional banks is between three and five weeks, while average ‘time to cash’ is nearly three months. Are such long lead times efficient and responsive in today’s…
Risk applications and the cloud: boosting collaborations to strengthen risk management infrastructure
More of today's financial services organisations are choosing to move their financial risk management applications to the cloud. But, according to a recent survey by Risk.net and SS&C Algorithmics, many risk professionals believe there is room for improvement in key elements of these migration…
The post-trade patch-up: revamping processes in volatile times
This Risk.net Rapid Read survey report, commissioned by ION, examines the effectiveness and efficiency of post-trade processes and services at financial firms, and assesses where change is most needed, and the barriers to change. In an era of heightened volatility where risks are high and errors…
The economic impact of Covid on the US housing and mortgage market
Covid-19 has fundamentally reshaped consumer behaviour. Combined with drastic changes in federal government policy, the impact on financial markets will be long-lasting. Today, the financial markets are battling a new set of economic issues as the US enters the endemic phase of the virus amid…
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
The report is essential reading for buy-side risk, investment and technology leaders looking to achieve a new level of analytical insight and drive a step-change in performance. This paper explores the challenges for investment managers in achieving ‘one analytics view’ of risk and performance…
Case study: Rabobank achieving strategic transformation with Murex MX.3
Crises throughout the last decades have led financial institutions to seek, devise and implement solutions to lower the cost of their operations, focus on their core businesses and speed up their go-to-market innovation. This case study identifies how Rabobank’s was able to achieve a strategic…
The landscape ahead for FX options desks: a Murex expert series
FX options desks face an increasingly complex and demanding context. The challenges they confront necessitate automation, digitization, proper risk and lifecycle management and sophisticated, leading analytics. Learn more in a series of expert articles outlining what’s ahead for FX options desks…
FRTB: a question of strategy for US banks
As pieces of the FRTB puzzle fall into place, the model methodology reshuffle raises new questions for US banks hoping to heed the lessons from their FRTB forerunners in Europe and beyond. This Risk.net paper explores the key decisions facing US banks as they look to future-proof their FRTB…
Investment Management: Harnessing Data Insights to Drive Innovation
To prepare themselves for the future, firms must readily embrace AI, ML, and natural language processing (NLP) based solutions to achieve operational and strategic targets. By doing so, they will discover how powerful data insights are when coupled with the right set of approaches and tools. In…
Reinventing regulatory reporting with intelligent innovations
The complexities of existing disjointed regulatory data and technology infrastructure are a hindrance in achieving timely and accurate fulfilment of regulatory compliance, especially in areas of cross-border reporting challenges and obligations. Given the need for regulatory reporting…