BNP Paribas had its foreign exchange forwards book with US mutual funds halve during the third quarter of 2024, as Pimco and ...
Foreign exchange traders mostly profited from last week’s collapse in the Brazilian real, but the gains were offset by ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...