by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Mar 10, 2025 | Risk Report
This is by far one of my favorite German words. The direct translation is dark doldrums, and if that doesn’t say everything there is to say, I don’t know what does. Dunkelflaute’s more modern meaning is a period of time, often several days, with little or no sunlight...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 24, 2025 | Risk Report
Someone on the internet said that to get people to read your academic papers, you just had to put Harry Potter and in front of the title. Another thing that seems to work for attention is applying the AI lens: How Will AI Affect the Way Snails Perceive Color? The AI...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Feb 26, 2024 | Risk Report
Information about the Chinese financial markets is often fleeting, sparse, and long after the fact. This week, however, Bloomberg brought a piece on a recent Quant Quake, a headline too good to pass up. The piece talks about how Chinese quant hedge funds—hedge funds...
by Regitze Ladekarl, FRM | Oct 30, 2023 | Risk Report
Worry is within the purview of Team Regulator, and they do it well. This week, Gary Gensler of the SEC voiced his concern to FT that AI will cause substantial financial instability within the next decade. So here is his thinking: Financial institutions, especially...
by Hannah Wiser | Oct 20, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
Through the lens of Financial Risk, this blog series will focus on Financial Institutions as a premier business use case for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. For any application of machine learning (ML) being considered for industry practice, the most...
