The Risk Awards are the longest-running awards of their kind and are widely recognised as the most prestigious for firms and individuals in our markets.
Risk Awards 2021
♦♦ CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR 2021 WINNERS ♦♦
♦♦ WATCH ALL OF THE 2021 AWARD PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS ON DEMAND ♦♦
No black tie, no tickets, no tables – still the risk transfer market’s most prestigious awards.
Thank you to everyone who joined us this year for the 2021 Risk Awards and Risk Markets Technology Awards. The awards were hosted virtually, consisting of interviews and panel discussions with awards winners and market leaders, followed by the awards announcement. All the content is available to watch for free on demand, you can see the agenda below.
Pricing and analytics: fixed income, currencies, credit
Pricing and analytics: structured products/cross-asset
Trading systems: commodities
Trading systems: equities
Trading systems: fixed income, currencies, credit
Best user interface innovation
Best use of machine learning/Ai
Best use of natural language processing
Best use of cloud
Best modelling innovation
Day 2
Opening remarks: Duncan Wood, global editorial director, Risk.net
Webinar: The changing face of fixed income liquidity provision
Today’s credit, FX and rates markets embody a host of apparent contradictions. Bilateral trading is resurgent, while new multilateral venues are still being launched; execution algos are cutting orders into ever-smaller slices, while portfolio trades allow ever-larger one-shot transactions; internalisation rates are growing, while hoovering up flow to the public venues on which pricing engines depend. How to explain this uneasy equilibrium? And what does it mean for liquidity providers, and consumers?
Moderator: Lukas Becker, editor, Risk.net
Giuseppe Nuti, head of machine learning & AI, UBS
John Estrada, managing director, head of eMacro trading, Credit Suisse
Roel Oomen, head of FIC quant trading, Deutsche Bank
Isaac Chang, head of trading, global fixed income, Citadel
Awards announced:
Risk Awards 2021:
Flow market-maker of the year
Innovation in execution
Risk solutions house of the year
Inflation derivatives house of the year
Credit derivatives house of the year
Currency derivatives house of the year
Interest rate derivatives house of the year
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021:
Market risk management product of the year
Market liquidity risk product of the year
Counterparty risk product of the year
FRTB product of the year
Regulatory reporting product of the year
Best support for Libor reform
Day 3
Opening remarks: Duncan Wood, global editorial director, Risk.net
Webinar: Spotlight on clearing and margin efficiency
Few predicted the outbreak of a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness in central China a year ago would turn into a pandemic that has killed millions and wrecked the global economy. Most CCPs’ margin models failed to predict the consequences, either – with some exhibiting alarming spikes in requirements of 1,000% or more as asset prices whipsawed in the aftermath, adding to systemic risk concerns at a time of extreme stress on dollar funding markets. Throw in issues with post-trade resilience among some banks and vendors, and the derivatives industry did well to come through 2020 relatively unscathed. Banks, clients and clearers alike united to patch things up – but what can be done to prevent a repeat? And, how can firms move forward with more positive initiatives to ease margin pressures, in operational and efficiency terms?
Moderator: Tom Osborn, risk management editor, Risk.net
Nick Rustad, global head of derivative clearing, JP Morgan
Dmitrij Senko, chief risk officer, Eurex Clearing
Ulrich Karl, head of clearing services, ISDA
William Thum, principal, global head of capital markets legal and regulatory, Vanguard
Awards announced:
Risk Awards 2021:
Hedging adviser of the year
Law firm of the year
OTC infrastructure service of the year
OTC platform of the year
Exchange of the year
FX prime broker of the year
Derivatives client clearer of the year
Clearing house of the year
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021:
Central counterparty clearing support product of the year
Collateral management and optimisation product of the year
Market data vendor of the year
Alternative data vendor of the year
Risk data repository and data management product of the year
Electronic trading support product of the year
Best vendor for system support and implementation
Day 4
Opening remarks: Duncan Wood, global editorial director, Risk.net
Webinar: Life after 60-40: what to do when bonds stop working
Yields are near zero. As a diversifier bonds can no longer be counted on. Inflation is a mounting concern. The traditional 60-40 portfolio model, with bonds offsetting risks in equities, arguably is broken. Replacing it won’t be easy. Probably, it will require the use of more-complex investing strategies and call for closer risk management, especially of tail risks.
Moderator: Rob Mannix, quant investing editor, Risk.net
Sandrine Ungari, head of cross-asset quantitative research, Societe Generale
Serge Tabachnik, head of research, multi-asset group, Lombard Odier
Kari Vatanen, chief investment officer, Veritas Pension Insurance Company
Asbjørn Trolle Hansen, head of asset allocation, Nordea Investment Management
Awards announced:
Risk Awards 2021:
Investment house of the year
Hedge fund of the year
Quant investment firm of the year
Research house of the year
Equity derivatives house of the year
Structured products house of the year
Lifetime achievement
Derivatives house of the year
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2021:
Buy-side market risk management product of the year
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