Technology Systems and Software
310 white papers and resources
Technology Systems and Software
Three key drivers of middle-office outsourcing
This white paper examines the growing trend of middle-office outsourcing among asset and fund managers, driven by operational efficiency and cost control. Insights from Hedgeweek’s May 2023 report show that 60% of hedge funds outsource back-office tasks, with 40% outsourcing middle-office functions…
Market and reference data management: Challenges abound
The findings in this paper illustrate just how much firms can improve managing and optimizing market and reference data spend and usage.
Risk, portfolio margin, regulation: regtech to the rescue
This Whitepaper addresses the complexity of today’s risk environment for market professionals which can only be fully met with a regtec approach. Cost, competition, technology capability, and regulation influence and drive decision making. Successfully navigating the seemingly incalculable…
Driving a modern operational resilience program
Strengthen your operational resilience processes, meet pertinent regulatory requirements in this space, and enhance business continuity practices with the help of high-performance GRC technology.
Stress-testing and capital adequacy in banking: tackling technology challenges
This article builds on the discussions held in a Chartis and Appian webinar, which covered how banks have sharpened their focus on stress tests. These tests, varying in methodology and scope, rely on extensive data from various business lines and asset classes. However, smaller banks still lack…
Is your SOFR readiness being put to the test? Let's talk about post-transition issues and challenges
In this white paper, five Numerix experts discuss the issues tied to SOFR impacting the market. These include benchmark challenges, curve building, operational challenges, market data quality and availability, system validation and the impact of SOFR on bonds and loans
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
This paper outlines the benefits accruing to buy-side practitioners on the back of generating a single analytics view of their risk and performance metrics across funds, regions and asset classes. And, while that objective might be well understood and clearly defined, actually producing a single,…
Bank balancing: optimising margin and capital in a higher-rate environment
This Risk.net paper, which features leading practitioner insights, assesses the challenges banks are facing in the new higher rate environment and the strategies and tools they are using to optimise margin and capital on their derivatives portfolios.
Tackling credit risk in turbulent times
In September and October, Risk.net surveyed 58 chief risk officers from a mixture of banks and insurers across the Asia-Pacific region on the credit risks they face in the current environment and how they manage them. The survey, sponsored by Boston Consulting Group, found spiralling inflation,…
Can ChatGPT unlock better investment portfolio selection?
This white paper explores the potential uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as ChatGPT, for investment portfolio selection. We use ChatGPT to obtain a universe of stocks from the S&P 500 market index that are potentially attractive for investing. We compared various…