
Quantcast – a Risk.net Cutting Edge podcast
Conversations around the latest articles and topics covered by Risk.net's Cutting Edge team.
Latest episodes

Mar 20, 2020 • 37min
Horvath and Lee – 19/03/20
Quants explain application latest techniques to produce synthetic data

Feb 6, 2020 • 27min
Alexei Kondratyev and Christian Schwarz – 16/01/19
Market generator models may aid areas of finance where data is limited or sensitive, by generating new data with the same statistical properties, say Alexei Kondratyev and Christian Schwarz

Jan 15, 2020 • 29min
Andrew Dickinson – 09/01/20
Trades’ size limits, membership rules and more transparency are key to avoid another CCPs’ default, says BofA quant Andrew Dickinson

Oct 16, 2019 • 17min
Mats Kjaer – 03/10/19
Mats Kjaer discusses a balance-sheet based model in which he derives breakeven price and valuation adjustments of a new trade for the firm and the shareholders

Aug 30, 2019 • 35min
Carlo Acerbi – 28/08/19
Model validation for ES-based risk models is not only possible but far more informative than traditional model acceptance on the basis of VAR exceedance counting, says head of valuation and quantitative solutions at Banque Pictet in Geneva

Aug 7, 2019 • 34min
Andrew McClelland – 31/07/19
Numerix's Andrew McClelland talks to Mauro Cesa in relation to an upcoming Risk.net paper – MVA: future IM for client trades and
dynamic hedges

Jul 3, 2019 • 18min
Chung and Gregory – 19/06/19
Quants talk about new technique that can model wrong-way risk better

Jun 5, 2019 • 16min
Hans Buehler – 28/05/19
Quant says a new machine learning technique could change the way banks hedge derivatives

May 31, 2019 • 47min
Venturelli and Kondratyev – 24:05:19
How quantum theory could aid portfolio construction

May 1, 2019 • 20min
George Hong – 29/04/19
Credit Suisse quant talks about new paper on valuing quanto options