Risk Systems
120 white papers and resources
Blockchain Potential in Financial Services - Video Highlights
This animated video provides highlights from an exclusive survey from WatersTechnology, in association with SmartStream. It surveyed a diverse mix of personnel and aimed to assess the industry’s state of readiness around blockchain and to identify the significant challenges to adoption still at…
Building a Scalable, Auditable Valuation and Pricing Process - How automation can reduce risk and improve controls in month-end pricing and valuation
This white paper explores the dangers and hidden risks of performing critical calculations with customized spreadsheets. It further examines how organisations can increase automation to reduce risk, and improve controls in a strategic way.
Cat bonds & Artificial Neural Networks | An example of reinsurance products’ pricing using machine learning methods
This white paper presents a mathematic model allowing to predict the number and the cost of incoming catastrophes. It further explores models that help to price insurance risk transfer products, such as XL contracts or cat bonds.
Putting Data Analytics to Work in Energy Trading
This paper will look at trading across the energy spectrum, a few of the key prerequisites of a successful energy trading company today in the current high-stakes, time-sensitive environment and how one can best utilise data analytics to make sense of everything.
The Importance of Real-Time Forward Curves - Leveraging Technological Advances to Manage Risk
This white paper examines the importance of real-time forward curves. It further explores potential solutions that will aid traders, analysts and risk managers in addressing their needs for real-time and easy-to-use price curve tools.
Blockchain—Next Steps on a Journey
How will today’s market infrastructure and data processing providers react to ledgers—the very innovation that, some evangelists say, could ultimately subsume them? This white paper explores the latest developments.
The fair value of defaultable bonds and bank loans - a practitioners’ guide
This white paper deals with the pricing of defaultable assets, whether corporate bonds or bank loans, in terms of theoretical and practical issues alike.
Top 5 Triggers for Insider Trading: Leveraging Behavioural Science for Forensic Analysis
This white paper explores how behavioural science technology can cut through data to help identify insider trading. It further examines how technology can identify suspicious trading, so teams can avoid the waves of false positives that occur from using systems which rely on mathematical models.
AI Adoption Across Capital Markets - Opportunities, Challenges and Use-Cases
This white paper analyses the results of a recent WatersTechnology survey which aimed to gain a clearer sense of progress in capital markets adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). It further offers a fascinating study into what could be called ‘qualified optimism’ around AI.
Managing Fraud Risks in the Digital World
This white paper examines the 4 key emerging fraud risks related to digital payments. It further explores how to implement anti-fraud tools and technology, as well as the top five minimum requirements to achieve effective and optimal fraud management.