Banking & Finance

The year 2021 witnessed a renewed interest in liquid alternatives (alts.), and 2022 continues to see a strong inflow of funds. The primary reasons driving this inflow are volatile equity market returns, weakening policy support, higher interest rates and inflation, market volatility, and geopolitical turmoil, as they forced investors to critically think about portfolio construction and seek strategy changes.

Introduction The purpose of this blog is to construct and analyze the performance of an in-house ESG index for the Chilean

Let’s discuss the challenges that come with adopting ESG indexes, are they more than a green initiative, how and what does it mean?

The recently issued interagency statement SR 21-8 is a non-binding guidance note with very useful and practical suggestions on how banks

Let’s look into an alternative to funding President Bidens new tax plan.

RiskMinds event key takeaways – managing uncertainty, credit risk and systems, second generation risk models
and ESG stress testing.

Five key takeaways from Risk Americas 10th Annual Virtual Event.

Advanced Model Risk 2021 event offers eye-opening view of how MRM models enhanced through improved technology and practices.

Bhashkar Upadhyay, Evalueserve’s, Financial Services lead analyst weighs in on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Q&A with Erick Gonzalez

The MRM infrastructure implemented by banks in the past few years has finally been put to test. The plane has met air, and risk teams need to adjust to any turbulence mid-air.

In our conversations with industry leaders, fulfilling the following parameters will help ensure a successful partnership.

Amit Inamder shares highlights from RiskMinds International 2020 conference

Through our proposed solution, we see the addition of shame to financial institutions’ vocabulary as an essential tool to empathetically and respectfully reach those who have been greatly affected by the pandemic.

The Investment Management industry has witnessed secular changes in structure, pricing, and asset flows.

In this blog, we set out to test our hypothesis by tracking the returns of companies that facilitate remote working.

RPA for Model Risk Management has become a rising topic in the risk and compliance space, as Model Risk Management (MRM) teams have started to look at the use of robotic process automation (RPA) to help ensure that their models are meeting regulatory requirements and the bank’s financial standards.

As of May 2020, four European monetary zones (the Eurozone, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland) along with Japan are firmly in negative interest rate territory.

The performance of factors in the US and other developed markets have been widely studied.

Facebook surprised the market by announcing its intention to launch Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology.

The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a grave threat for both global health and the economy.

Public and regulatory attention to the impact of COVID-19 on banks has been rightly focused on credit quality.

The Global Lockdown May Accelerate Automation And New Ways Of Working With Lower Costs.

Imagine yourself in a Harry Potter movie, reading a newspaper with pictures that move and characters that smile and wave to you! How cool would that be?

As Covid-19 continues to spread, the burden of disease has been asymmetrically distributed, as countries find themselves at different stages of the pandemic.

How often do you find yourself or your team members tied up in essential but repetitious tasks?

What is the role of the shadow banking in China’s economy and how does it develop under the impact of crackdown and a raging trade war? Check out this blog article for more details.

Increasing importance of data lineage and advent of machine learning indicates that traditional and new risk models will co-exist, as the MRM life cycle is optimized. But what will help minimize teething pains associated with this growth phase? Find out more in this blog.

The new legislative proposal is expected to have a global impact on the ecosystem of how buy-side consumes sell-side research. The changes will create fresh challenges for the industry, but they will also bring some attention-worthy opportunities.