SimCorp has sought to better prepare clients for increased market volatility with an update to its Axioma Worldwide Equity Factor Risk Model, which is designed to help managers identify risks in their portfolios.
Among its improvements is the introduction of a Non-Linear Residual Factor, which uses machine learning to identify hidden factor correlations that can’t be detected by standard, linear models.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
When global markets were roiled by the announcement of massive US trade tariffs, Bloomberg saw the amount of financial and other data that runs through its systems surge to 600 billion data points, almost double the 400 billion it manages on an average day. “These were just mind-blowingly large volumes of data,” says James Jarvis,...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
A-Team Group recently held a webinar on the topic of Regulation and Risk as Data Management Drivers. Fill in the form to get immediate access to the accompanying Special Report. Alongside death and taxes, perhaps the only other certainty in life is that regulation of the financial markets will increase in future years. How do...