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Numerix is thrilled to announce that we have selected the recipient of our 2024 Women in Finance Scholarship. Jaya Gaur will use her $20,000 financial award to pursue a master's degree in financial engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Derivatives valuation adjustments or XVA have become crucial factors impacting the earnings of financial institutions. While historically, sell-side participants have been focused on managing XVA, today buy-side firms are as well. Our blog explores key aspects of XVA from a buy-side perspective, featuring takeaways from a Risk.net webinar on the same topic. 

The fragmented implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) across various jurisdictions poses major challenges for global financial institutions. Dissimilar go-live timelines and rules are leading to inconsistencies in capital requirements and regulatory burdens. Learn more about FRTB complexities in our blog. 

Our blog explores the industry's shift away from Excel toward advanced solutions like Python that meet the demands of modern finance with greater accuracy, scalability, and risk management capabilities. 

The financial services industry is rapidly embracing AI tech like ChatGPT. Such tools are transforming tasks from software development to data analysis. Our blog explores harnessing AI effectively with ethical oversight. 

Benchmark rate reform and shifting central bank policies are adding complexity to the OTC derivatives market, making precise risk management crucial. Our blog offers insight to help you navigate these turbulent times.

We're happy to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2024 Women in Finance Scholarship. This $20,000 annual scholarship award recognizes talented young women advancing their education with the goal of pursuing a career in financial asset management, market risk management or derivatives finance within the capital markets. 

Today, we unveil our bold new brand identity, featuring an enhanced company logo and modernized website design. We invite you to explore our new website at numerix.com.

For investors looking to diversify their portfolios with lower risk, municipal (muni) bonds are becoming an increasingly attractive investment option. In this blog, we explain how muni bond investors can use swaps to hedge their exposure to interest rate fluctuations and inflation expectations.

Cloud usage is surging amongst capital markets participants that rely on fast information processing, the analysis of huge data sets, complex risk management, and effectively executing real-time trades. The nature of cloud is also ideal for simplifying complex pricing and risk functions, such as XVA.

In August 2023, Numerix acquired PolyPaths, the leading provider of analytics and risk management solutions for financial institutions. In today’s blog, we share an overview of PolyPaths’ powerful structured finance offering.

We’re delighted to announce Season Two of the popular Numerix podcast series, Trading Tomorrow: Navigating Trends in Capital Markets. Episode One will offer exciting conversation around society’s fascination with AI and what we can expect for the future of this technology.  

Numerix and PolyPaths recently attended SFVegas 2024, the premier global capital markets conference hosted by the Structured Finance Association (SFA). Today, we’d like to share a few takeaways we gleaned from this educational event.  

With LIBOR now phased out, the transition to SOFR has not always been smooth sailing, producing many operational, workflow and market-readiness challenges for financial institutions. We share three of the top issues firms are encountering as they navigate SOFR adoption.

Over the past year, options trading volumes hit a record high. What’s more, nearly 50% of all S&P 500 options are now associated with zero day to expiration (0DTE) options specifically, surpassing those of all other options maturities. We recently held a solution webinar to look deeper into this topic.

Managing MBS investing is growing more complex by the day, placing risk concerns at the forefront for the buy-side and redefining the MBS landscape. In this blog, we touch on three leading factors transforming the mortgage industry, as reported in a recent Greenwich Coalition report. 

As the new year started, there was talk at Numerix about particular industry topics that dominated in 2023 that are expected to continue being of significant focus in 2024. So, we took a look back at the best stories we published last year on these same subjects and believe they are worth sharing with you again. Why? We think this collection paints a picture of some of the key areas where industry thinking will continue to be heading this year.

Get top takeaways from our solution webinar exploring the valuable role of PnL Explain Analytics. Discover how the PnL Explain analytics in Numerix Oneview can provide you with critical insights that inform on-point daily trading and risk decisions.