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Webinars

Webinar Series

Curated by the Risk.net and WatersTechnology editorial teams, these webinars provide our senior audience with impartial analysis and practical advice, directly from the experts. 

Our audience relies on our technical know-how to solve their current challenges, as well as garner forward-looking insights and prepare for what is ahead. Each webinar offers your firm the opportunity to position a subject-matter expert alongside our panel of industry thought leaders, and to generate leads.

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FRTB: strategic insights for a post-2025 market

With FRTB set to increase capital requirements for banks by 35%, this webinar will offer strategic insights for financial institutions, risk managers and regulatory professionals to capitalise on opportunities and mitigate challenges in the post-2025 market.   

Implementing the Prudential Regulation Authority's SS1/23

The release of the PRA's supervisory statement SS1/23 in response to CP6/22 marks a significant development in risk management practices. Join a deep dive into the principles outlined in SS1/23, offering practical insights and strategies for risk transfer and management professionals in Europe.  

Mastering CSRBB

Understanding credit spread risk in the banking book (CSRBB) is crucial for financial institutions' compliance and for risk managers to proactively identify and manage potential losses in earnings and economic value.    

The AI boom: harnessing the promise of cutting-edge advances and efficiencies today

The euphoria of Chat GPT and generative AI has led to the most important AI business question - How do we deploy and benefit from AI tech now?   

Mastering scalable AI

As organisations strive to deliver AI solutions at scale, they face challenges related to infrastructure scalability, cost management and maintaining data quality.   

What’s next for AI regulation?

With the Bank of England and UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) releasing next steps in their AI discussion paper, the launch of the FCA AI sandbox in the UK, and the early stages of implementation and the ramifications of the European Union AI Act, the C-suite and technical/data architects need to stay on top of evolving regulations and solutions to ensure compliance.   

Operational resilience by design: adding value beyond processes

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, operational resilience is not just a compliance necessity but a strategic asset that can drive significant value. This insightful webinar will to shift the focus from merely implementing processes to creating a culture of resilience that actively adds value to the business. 

Elevating supply chain resilience: mastering third-party risk management

In an era where supply chain integrity is paramount, particularly in sectors such as financial services, this webinar will delve into the growing need for robust and sophisticated approaches to manage third-party relationships and mitigate associated risks. The webinar will explore the evolving landscape of supply chain testing, focusing on how organisations can achieve greater visibility and control over their external partnerships to ensure operational resilience.  

Cyber security trends 2024: navigating identity threats and AI challenges

As cyber security continues to evolve rapidly, this webinar will focus on the critical themes shaping the cyber landscape in 2024. It will delve into the urgent need for robust multifactor authentication to counter identity and access threats, the growing focus on securing operational technology amid heightened risks to critical infrastructure, and the dual role of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber security – as a tool for threat actors and a potential defence mechanism. Additionally, the session will explore the rising concerns around deepfakes and AI-driven misinformation.   

ESG reporting: navigating SFDR, CSRD and EU taxonomy 

With added layers to the European Union's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation in the form of the Regulatory Technical Standards and the introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, financial market participants and advisers must understand how these regulations interrelate.

Finding the right talent in climate risk modelling

Global systemically important banks are struggling to find quants with the necessary expertise – and background - in climate risk modelling. Model risk managers need to recruit competitively, as well as secure and nurture existing and emerging talent.    

Going beyond ESG: a global outlook on climate and portfolio design

The recent shift away from traditional ESG into more climate and macro-specific issues is altering the way portfolios are constructed, with risk mitigation as a primary goal.   

Assessing and mitigating risks in private equity and credit markets

Examine the changing landscape of private capital markets, focusing on private equity and credit. Buy-side risk managers and investment analysts uncover the risks associated with over allocation, financial engineering and the potential credit crunch.   

Navigating the refinancing crunch

Nearly one-fifth of high-yield bonds in Europe are set to mature in the next two years. Credit portfolio managers and asset managers will delve into the intricacies of increased interest rates impacting smaller companies, and discover strategies to navigate the challenges of refinancing and potential defaults. 

Data management and the cost of the cloud

Financial institutions are continuing to turn to the cloud for efficient and scalable data management solutions. However, understanding the true cost of the cloud is difficult to accurately gauge, although crucial to making informed decisions. Join this insightful webinar to explore cost components and comprehensive pricing models, understand cloud usage optimisation and discover how to ensure efficient data management.

Ethical considerations in data analytics and reporting

Navigating a data-driven business is crucial for overall success, but what are the ethical considerations necessary when handling sensitive client data? Hear from the experts as they share tips on safeguarding client information and maintaining confidentiality, identifying and mitigating biases, and ensuring fair and equitable outcomes. All of which link into evolving regulatory requirements.  

Generative AI use cases and what’s ahead

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating businesses, with many unsure of how to safely implement this new technology. This webinar will explore the use cases on how companies have successfully started their business journeys with generative AI, and how this may impact data management in the future.  

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About AcadiaSoft, Inc.

AcadiaSoft, Inc. is the leading industry provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives community. AcadiaPlus is a new generation open platform that provides the sell-side, the buy-side and fund administrators with specialist applications and a third-party partner ecosystem for the straight-through processing of the entire collateral, margin and risk mitigation lifecycle. Backed by 16 major industry participants and market infrastructures, AcadiaSoft is used by a community of more than 1100 firms exchanging approximately $700B of collateral on a daily basis via its margin automation services. AcadiaSoft is headquartered in Norwell, MA, and has offices in London, New York and Tokyo.

For more information, visit acadiasoft.com.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcadiaSoft_ and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acadiasoft-inc/.

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ActiveViam delivers a precision analytics platform that improves decision making for complex, real-time, high-volume business and regulatory challenges. 

By harnessing existing and new data sources in its high-performance, in-memory aggregation engine, the ActiveViam platform enables train-of-thought analysis, empowering users to delve deeper into key questions.

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 505,000 people serving clients in over 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Archer is a leading provider of integrated risk management solutions that enable customers to improve strategic decision-making and operational resilience with a modern technology platform that supports qualitative and quantitative analysis driven by business and IT impacts.

As pioneers in governance, risk and compliance software, Archer remains solely dedicated to helping customers manage risk and compliance domains, from traditional operational risk to emerging issues such as environmental, social and governance. With more than 20 years in the risk management industry, Archer's customer base represents one of the largest pure risk management communities globally, with over 1,600 deployments, including more than 90 of the Fortune 100.

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Bottomline helps make complex business payments simple, smart and secure. Banks rely on Bottomline for domestic and international payments, state-of-the-art fraud detection, insider fraud protection, behavioural analytics, consolidated case management and regulatory compliance solutions. Banks worldwide benefit from Bottomline cyber fraud and risk solutions. Headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Bottomline delights customers through offices in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information visit www.bottomline.com.

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Cutover is the work orchestration and observability platform that drives greater business outcomes with a new model of working. Cutover orchestrates human and machine automation to improve performance and radically compress timelines. The platform has proven success in helping world-class organisations with technology delivery and release, operational resilience and transformation.

Cutover uses automated runbooks to plan, orchestrate and analyze complex work. Our customers replace the chaos of multiple spreadsheets and fragmented communications with a single intuitive platform. Teams can achieve more in less time, making more efficient use of resources.

Real-time visibility and detailed analytics deliver greater control, precision and agility. This enables organisations to move quickly with confidence, reducing the risk of disruption and customer-facing incidents.

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Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory helps organisations turn critical and complex business issues into opportunities for growth, resilience and long-term advantage. Deloitte's market-leading teams help its clients manage strategic, financial, operational, technological and regulatory risk to enhance enterprise value, while experience in mergers and acquisitions, fraud, litigation and reorganisation helps clients emerge stronger and more resilient.

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Deutsche Börse is one of the world’s leading exchange organisations. It provides investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. Deutsche Börse covers the entire process chain from securities and derivatives trading, clearing, settlement and custody, to market data and the development and operation of electronic trading systems. 

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Eka Software Solutions is a global leader in providing digital commodity management solutions driven by the cloud, blockchain, machine learning and analytics. The company’s best-of-breed solutions serve the entire trading value chain across agriculture, energy, metals, and mining and manufacturing markets. Eka is reimagining commodity management with a new-age architecture that breaks monolithic ETRM systems into bite-sized chunks of powerful, enterprise-grade apps, thereby enabling faster implementation, adoption and decision-making. Eka’s mobile-first enterprise apps are embedded with commodity-specific algorithms that empower businesses to stay on top of volatile markets by letting them scale at will, go live faster, and achieve better value for their investments.  

Eka’s offices are located across the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, serving a rapidly growing global client base across multiple commodity segments. For more information, visit www.ekaplus.com.

To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, email us at info@ekaplus.com

 

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Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: to bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. Entrade® is all of this and more. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: from done deal through to sent bill.

Entrade supports every commodity, every feature, and every user in one place. There is no third-party or legacy system to integrate. 

Whatever and wherever you trade, its universal deal manager and risk engine ensure all of your trading activities can be well managed within one system, with one architecture, on one trade management platform. Entrade also provides industry and market segment-specific logistics management forms and reports, which take into account the nuances of the specific logistical requirements of each commodity.

Enuit continuously invests in its technology stack and, in 2019, decided to build into the core Entrade system the functionality to not only support an entire business from front to back, but also all aspects related to enterprise resource planning (ERP).

This led to the creation of Entrade Unite, one of the few solutions to incorporate all the aspects of a CTRM system and all the aspects of an ERP solution directly in its core, in a single platform without cumbersome modules to enable integration and mapping from one system to another.

Entrade Unite creates an integrated solution that can support today’s supply chain needs of any trading organisation, allowing companies to integrate trading and risk data with supply chain functions.

To learn more about Enuit visit www.enuit.com

 

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Eurex is the leading European derivatives exchange and – with Eurex Clearing – one of the leading central counterparties globally. Being architects of trusted markets characterised by market liquidity, efficiency and integrity, Eurex provides its customers with innovative solutions to seamlessly manage risk. 

On the trading side, Eurex masterminds the most efficient derivatives landscape by pioneering ingenious products and infrastructures, as well as by building ‘smart’ into technology. Eurex is the centre of European equity and equity index markets, offering a global product range, operating the most liquid fixed income markets in Europe and featuring open and low-cost electronic access. 

As central counterparty, Eurex Clearing builds trusted relationships with and among market participants, enabling effective risk management and delivering high efficiencies to clients.

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FactSet helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology globally. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized amongst the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor.

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At EY, we share a single focus — to build a better financial services industry, one that is stronger, fairer and more sustainable.

Our strength lies in the proven power of our people and technology, and the possibilities that arise when they converge to reframe the future.

Our professionals are dedicated to the industry, and live and breathe financial services. This deep sector knowledge combined with a holistic point of view, delivers true value from strategy through to implementation. Whether your business challenge is specific, complex, small or large, we can be trusted to deliver solutions that work for today and tomorrow.

By using technology as a tool, to transform what a business can be, and people can do, we are building long-term value for our financial services clients. It is how we play our part in building a better working world.

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FIS is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. FIS empowers the financial world with software, services, consulting and outsourcing solutions focused on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, trade enablement, transaction processing and record-keeping. FIS’ more than 53,000 worldwide employees are passionate about moving their clients’ businesses forward.

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Fusion Risk Management is a leading industry provider of cloud-based software solutions for operational resilience, encompassing risk management, third-party risk management, IT and security risk, business continuity and disaster recovery, and crisis and incident management. Its products and services take organisations beyond legacy solutions and empower them to make data-driven decisions with a comprehensive and flexible approach through one system. Fusion and its team of experts are dedicated to helping companies achieve greater operational resilience and mitigate risks within their businesses.

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With the unique combination of financial services, technology and regulatory expertise, IBM enables institutions to make more timely and risk-aware decisions. IBM applies the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation to the risk and compliance process, increasing operational efficiency, accelerating insight and improving transparency. This greater oversight and understanding helps IBM's clients preserve institutional trust and enhance value to their shareholders and customers alike.

To learn more about IBM financial crime and regulatory compliance solutions, visit ibm.com/RegTech and follow on Twitter @IBMFintech
 

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As a leader in analytics, SAS has more than 40 years of experience helping organisations solve their toughest problems. SAS' unrelenting commitment to innovation enables the financial services to modernise and sustain a competitive edge. SAS provides an integrated, enterprise-wide risk management platform for managing risk in an organisation, from strategic to reputational, operational, financial or compliance-related risk management. Learn more about how SAS is driving innovation and business value for risk and finance professionals at www.sas.com/risk.

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Banks and securities firms are facing intense pressure to accelerate business velocity and improve customer engagement while managing a rising flood of new and more complex regulation. Sharing and exchanging information is a critical business requirement but, without the proper control, it becomes a source of regulatory and business risk. Intralinks & SS&C provide a platform to develop new revenue sources, reduce operational expenses and improve customer experiences with enhanced communication – all while reducing risk by maintaining complete control over shared information. Intralinks' certifications include ISO 27701, 27001, SOC 2 Type II, CAIQ-demonstrating compliance with GDPR, CCPA and other global privacy regulations, as well as its commitment to the security and privacy of clients’ information. 

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About LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, playing a vital social and economic role in the world’s financial system. With our open approach, trusted expertise and global scale, we enable the sustainable growth and stability of our customers and their communities. We are dedicated partners with extensive experience, deep knowledge and a worldwide presence in data and analytics; indices; capital formation; and trade execution, clearing and risk management across multiple asset classes. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 23,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

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MetricStream is a global software-as-a-service leader of integrated risk management and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions that empower organisations to thrive on risk by accelerating growth via risk-aware decisions. It connects governance, risk management and compliance across the extended enterprise. MetricStream's ConnectedGRC and three product lines – BusinessGRC, CyberGRC and ESGRC – are based on a single, scalable platform that supports clients on their GRC journeys. For more information please click this link www.metricstream.com 

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Milliman is among the world’s largest providers of actuarial, risk management, and related technology and data solutions. With over 60 offices around the globe, our consulting and advanced analytics capabilities encompass the fields of healthcare, property and casualty insurance, life insurance, financial services, and employee benefits. Our breadth of expertise and data solutions provide insight into the interplay between physical, health, and economic risks, as well as the ability to communicate those risks and inform key decisions for governments, communities, and businesses around the world.

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Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better and faster decisions. Its risk expertise, expansive information resources and innovative application of technology help its clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. Moody’s Analytics offers industry-leading and award-winning solutions, comprising research, data, software and professional services. 

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NICE Actimize, the industry’s largest and broadest provider of financial crime, anti-money laundering, enterprise fraud and compliance solutions is the leader in autonomous financial crime management. The autonomous journey begins with NICE Actimize’s ActOne, which fundamentally transforms financial crime investigations by introducing intelligent automation and visual storytelling for speed and accuracy. Intelligent automation saves time by enabling a virtual workforce of robots to collaborate with human investigators, while visual storytelling uncovers more risks by showing relationships between entities, alerts and cases in a visual manner. The autonomous path continues with the release of X-Sight, NICE Actimize’s cloud-based financial crime risk management platform-as-a-service, which breaks the limits on data and analytics by leveraging the cloud. Get in touch at info@niceactimize.com.

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Nasdaq is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Its data, analytics, software and services offerings enable clients to optimise and execute their business visions with confidence. Nasdaq is the world’s largest capital markets infrastructure technology provider, powering one in 10 of securities transactions globally. Nasdaq's market technology powers more than 250 market infrastructure organisations and market participants – including broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing houses, central securities depositories and regulators – in over 50 countries with end-to-end mission-critical technology solutions. 

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Numerix is the leading provider of innovative capital markets technology applications and real-time intelligence capabilities for trading and risk management. It drives an open fintech-oriented digital financial services market. Numerix is uniquely positioned in the financial services ecosystem to help its users reimagine operations, modernise business processes and capture profitability.

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Quantifi is a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions. Its award-winning suite of integrated pre- and post-trade solutions allow market participants to better value, trade and risk manage their exposures. Founded in 2002, Quantifi is trusted by the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including five of the six largest global banks, two of the three largest asset managers, leading hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other institutions across 40 countries. By applying the latest technology innovations, Quantifi provides new levels of usability, flexibility, and integration. This translates into dramatically lower time to market, lower total cost of ownership and significant improvements in operational efficiency, allowing clients to focus on their core business.

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ServiceNow provides cloud-based platforms and solutions that help digitise and unify organisations so they can find smarter, faster and better ways of working, and employees and customers can be more connected, innovative and agile.

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S&P Global Market Intelligence integrates financial and industry data, research and news into tools that track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. It offers investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities the intelligence essential to make business and financial decisions with conviction.

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Tradeweb Markets is a leading global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters. For more information, visit www.tradeweb.com.

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TriOptima is the leading multilateral compression provider that lowers costs and mitigates risk in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets, and is now part of CME Group. As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimise portfolios and analyse data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. 

 

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