Ahead of the Curve

Oct 29 2024 32 ep. 23 mins 8
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Acadia presents Ahead of the Curve, a podcast that provides unique perspectives and insights into the margin and collateral industry. Hosts from Acadia’s leadership team are joined by special guest speakers from across the industry to share topical perspectives and really get ‘under the skin’ of the issues that are transforming the sector. Produced and recorded by Lansons. www.Lansons.com

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ISDA SIMM 2.7: Challenges and Opportunities

Oct 29 2024 22 mins  
In this landmark episode of Ahead of the Curve, John Pucciarelli is joined by Stuart Smith, Co-Head of Business Development. This is Acadia’s first episode under the new LSEG Post Trade Solutions name and the podcast tackles key areas of the transition from ISDA SIMM 2.6 to 2.7, including notable changes, impacts and tips for firms making the giant leap. Amid the volatile global

The Evolution of Model Validation: Why governance is essential

Sep 18 2024 24 mins  
Join our host Scott Sobolewski as he interviews Roland Stamm, Partner within Acadia’s Quantitative Services division on the important topic of model validation both for ISDA SIMM and complex internal models. Roland stresses the importance of model governance and how it is crucial for firms to be able to prove to regulators that their model is fit for purpose. Packed with sound ad

Building a comprehensive market data utility for risk and pricing calculations

Sep 18 2024 25 mins  
In this latest episode of Ahead of the Curve, our host Scott Sobolewski chats with James Mac Hale – Head of Acadia Market Data about the monumental task of creating a centralised market data library of over fifty thousand different types of daily curve inputs as part of the Acadia hosted service to support firms in their risk and pricing calculations. The podcast provides tips an

Unpacking the Agenda - Part 3

Jul 08 2024 30 mins  
Scott O’Malia, CEO at ISDA returns for a ‘threepeat’, his 3rd time on the podcast. He joins John Pucciarelli, Head of Industry Engagement at Acadia for a special 30th episode of Ahead of the Curve. Their discussion ranges from the benefits and adoption of the Common Domain Model (CDM) across the industry, reflections on the advocacy and impact of the latest capital reforms in

Counterparty Credit Risk – How Regulators are raising the bar in the wake of the Archegos default.

Jul 08 2024 25 mins  
In this episode of Ahead of the Curve, John Pucciarelli – Head of Industry Engagement and Stuart Smith, Co-Head of Business Development discuss the paper issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervison (BCBS) on the Proposed Guidelines for Counterparty Credit Risk Management. They provide an insight into the guidelines and share their perspectives on the why the regulators fe

Harnessing counterparty credit risk using the open source risk engine

Jun 11 2024 18 mins  
Join our host Roland Stamm, Partner at Acadia’s Quantitative Services team alongside his colleague Joey O’Brien (Senior Consultant) as they explore the topic of Backtesting of Future Risk Factors. This discussion is inspired by a recent client engagement, focusing on the utilization of the Open-Source Risk Engine (ORE) library within a counterparty credit risk framework and the

Implementing Open-Source Risk Engine: Accessing online resources

Mar 25 2024 21 mins  
Our host Devin Cook is joined by Alexis David, both Senior Consultants within Acadia’s Quantitative Services team. They discuss the merits of Open-Source Risk Engine (ORE) and explain the myriad of resources available to assist in implementing the software. They share nuggets of information which will be useful to anybody that wanting to use ORE for the first time, or looking to

Super-charging ORE: How technology advancements have enabled improved run times using GPUs

Mar 25 2024 11 mins  
Eric Ehlers, Principal Consultant at Acadia makes his debut hosting Ahead of the Curve podcast alongside his colleague Zeyu (Jerry) Shen.They share their expertise in explaining how to speed up crucial processing time for running complex calculations in Open-Source Risk Engine (ORE) by utilizing GPGPU (General purpose computing on graphics processing units). The tutorial mentioned

Can Open Source Technology truly help to build the future of risk management?

Mar 25 2024 17 mins  
Join our host Stuart Smith, Co-Head of Business Development and Scott Sobolewski, Co-Head of Quantitative Services as they discuss the merits of using open-source software. Reviewing the incredible journey of Linux supported by Red Hat and comparing this to Open-Source Risk Engine (ORE), the Acadia-sponsored derivatives risk management and pricing software which is freely available

Upcoming Regulation: A 2024 Outlook

Feb 05 2024 27 mins  
John Pucciarelli, Head of Industry and Regulatory Strategy and Stuart Smith, Co-Head of Business Development at Acadia sit down to discuss the regulatory outlook for 2024. The pair dig into a 10 year look-back on SIMM and moving forward with the model, an update on Basel III Endgame and what the FINRA 4210 rule means for the US and wider market.Listen now to understand the implicat