Playing MSCI’s quarterly rebalances

Stocks
Every quarter, MSCI's index rebalancing announcements offer a potential windfall to traders who take positions in added or deleted stocks. A Risky Finance visualisation shows how it works.

How the S&P 500 moved into hyperspace

Stocks
Two new visualisations show how AI transformed the S&P 500, and will continue to do so in the future

Understanding Goldman's $687m trading loss

The bank may look profitable to shareholders, but disclosures compiled by Risky Finance made it possible to uncover the story of this trading loss at Goldman Sachs

Lost Lobos

Lost Lobos
This article was the first rigorous financial analysis of Lender Option Borrower Option (LOBO) loan contracts obtained from UK councils. The article l...

Looking in SEC disclosures for the next LTCM

Looking in SEC disclosures for the next LTCM
Risky Finance has turned the SEC's hedge fund statistics into a visualisation tool and asks whether a new LTCM could be lurking in the data.

Seven things you didn’t know about the Goldman-Greece swap

Seven things you didn’t know about the Goldman-Greece swap
15 years after it was signed, the Goldman-Greece swap continues to be a reputational problem for the bank. A longer feature that reviews a decade's wo...

Burning down the house

Burning down the house
An analysis of 800 collateralised debt obligations rated by Standard & Poor's