Executive Summary

Modernizing Risk Management Technology: Has the Game Changed?

Market complexity is off the charts. While market risk hasn’t fundamentally changed, the factors that are feeding into it have. This paper focuses on the recent macroeconomic alphabet soup of happenings and how sell-side risk is being impacted under the new regime.

In a series of qualitative interviews, Coalition Greenwich spoke with global risk professionals at banks and other sell-side institutions. Discussions were designed to achieve a better understanding of how they are thinking about the challenges tied to volatility, geopolitical confict, the COVID aftermath, a changing rates and infation regime, and other factors through the lens of market-risk and credit-risk tools.

Methodology

Between April and June 2022, Coalition Greenwich spoke to risk management professionals of 20 sell-side firms globally in a series of qualitative interviews to explore how sell-side risk is being impacted by current geopolitical and macroeconomic factors.