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Know Your Customer: Who’s Short Technology Venture Options?

Know Your Customer: Who’s Short Technology Venture Options?

Jun 2025

Technology ventures are risky entities that often fall into two categories: rousing successes and…

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Here’s Proof That the Fed Needn’t Fear a Tokenized World

Here’s Proof That the Fed Needn’t Fear a Tokenized World

May 2025

A new report demonstrates that central banks can port their monetary policy tools into a evolving…

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Gambling Is No Longer Investing’s Evil Twin

Gambling Is No Longer Investing’s Evil Twin

May 2025

Legal and regulatory attitudes are rooted in a morality few people accept today.

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Tariff Technology Risk

Tariff Technology Risk

May 2025

New, frequently changing rules for tariffs have created volatile markets with widespread…

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The ‘Oil Curse’ Explains Harvard’s Puzzling Financial Choices

The ‘Oil Curse’ Explains Harvard’s Puzzling Financial Choices

Apr 2025

Universities with large endowments can lose focus from their core academic missions.

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The Dark Side of Surging Bank Trading Revenue

The Dark Side of Surging Bank Trading Revenue

Apr 2025

Every dollar that market makers collect is money investors pay. Volatility also reduces the…

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Bitcoin’s Response to Tariffs Says a Lot About the Dollar

Bitcoin’s Response to Tariffs Says a Lot About the Dollar

Apr 2025

The cryptocurrency trading in lockstep with stocks points to troubling uncertainties for the US…

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The Dangers of AI: Don’t Forget the Human Factor

The Dangers of AI: Don’t Forget the Human Factor

Mar 2025

Is AI manipulation by people a larger threat, to both the financial services industry and society…

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We Still Need to Find Out Why Stocks Gains Come at Night

We Still Need to Find Out Why Stocks Gains Come at Night

Mar 2025

The market anomaly of overnight drift has baffled researchers and potentially put retail investors…

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Hedge Fund-Beating Equities Will Mislead Investors

Hedge Fund-Beating Equities Will Mislead Investors

Mar 2025

The incredible run of passive stock funds may prompt return chasing by institutional managers. That…

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Hardware Innovation Will Up the Ante for Risk Managers

Hardware Innovation Will Up the Ante for Risk Managers

Jan 2025

Over the next few years, major advancements in hardware technology are expected, especially across…

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How AI Could Transform Asset Management and Financial Risk

How AI Could Transform Asset Management and Financial Risk

Dec 2024

AI in finance remains prone to occasional errors, and there is still a lot of room for improvement…

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Reflections on the Past 25 Years: What Risk Managers Have Learned from the Technology Revolution

Reflections on the Past 25 Years: What Risk Managers Have Learned from the Technology Revolution

Oct 2024

Engineering geniuses have greatly altered the way risk practitioners perceive the financial…

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What Risk Managers Can Learn from the Roots of Modern Technology

What Risk Managers Can Learn from the Roots of Modern Technology

Jul 2024

Technology is ubiquitous in risk management today, and its uses and potential dangers are too…

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Evolving AI: Threats and Opportunities

Evolving AI: Threats and Opportunities

Jun 2024

Financial institutions are clearly benefiting from machine learning and generative AI, but a recent…

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Rethinking Technology Risk: Moving Beyond Guns, Gates and Guards

Rethinking Technology Risk: Moving Beyond Guns, Gates and Guards

May 2024

Risk management for a long time suffered from a narrow, protective approach focused on dangers,…

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Will ChatGPT Break Financial Markets?

Will ChatGPT Break Financial Markets?

Jan 2024

Generative AI models have the potential to alter the trading landscape significantly. Risk managers…

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Could Speedier High-Frequency Trading Prompt the Next Market Meltdown?

Could Speedier High-Frequency Trading Prompt the Next Market Meltdown?

Oct 2023

Traders and market makers are pushing hard for faster HFT, claiming it will result in more liquid…

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A Brave (and Risky) New World: The Gig Economy Comes for Hedge Funds

A Brave (and Risky) New World: The Gig Economy Comes for Hedge Funds

Jun 2023

The most rapidly growing segment of the hedge fund industry is a gig business model that offers…

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Risk Management and Public Key Cryptography

Risk Management and Public Key Cryptography

May 2023

Risk managers must consider all risks and make decisions based on complex, voluminous,…

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Gambler’s Ruin

Gambler’s Ruin

Jun 2019

Aaron Brown demonstrates that ruination can lead to enlightenment; tough but so true

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Statistiks

Statistiks

May 2019

Aaron Brown asks why we use the same word, "statistics", for numbers put out by the government and…

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