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It is, according to the FT’s U.S. Editor-at-large, Gillian Tett, one of the smartest ideas to emerge in finance for a long time”. The idea in question is “reverse…

Henry Ford famously remarked that “a customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black”. Whether the founder of the eponymous car-maker uttered…

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”” These lines, from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, could just as easily apply to…

On HBO’s The Last of Us, much of humanity has been zombified by a fungus that spreads like, er, a virus? In economic crises, liquidity risk can do the same,…

After three years of pandemics, bear markets and war, what on earth could 2023 have in store? Anyone who tells you they know the answer to that question is…

Bringing the power of machine learning and full-range scenario analysis to Strategic Asset Allocation, Straterix is the first SaaS application of its kind for CIOs and senior risk managers….

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Do your capital buffers need buffing-up – and if so, by how much? In a market buffeted by extreme events and uncertainty, there’s no easy answer: set aside too…

With age, they say, comes wisdom. But when it comes to models, the older they get, the less useful they become, especially when you need to find out which…

Cash is king. This may be a cliché, but it also happens to be true. If your balance sheet is bulging with greenbacks, it’s almost impossible to default. By…

From politics to punchlines, timing can be everything. The same goes for investment. In an ideal world, wealth managers would have foreseen the declines we’ve seen on financial markets…

Markets tanking, rates rising, recession looming, Russia’s Ukraine invasion ongoing – these are, to put it mildly, volatile times. Against this backdrop, how should financial institutions manage balance-sheet risk?…