Riskfuel

AIFinTechToronto, ON

Toronto company selling neural-network 'surrogate' models that replicate banks' proprietary derivatives pricing engines, cutting valuation and XVA risk-run times from hours to seconds.

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About

Company site: riskfuel.com

Toronto company selling neural-network 'surrogate' models that replicate banks' proprietary derivatives pricing engines, cutting valuation and XVA risk-run times from hours to seconds.

  • Federal corporation Riskfuel Analytics Inc., registered office at 140 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M5C 1X6, status Active since 2019. ised-isde.canada.ca

  • Scotiabank's Head of XVA Trading says Scotiabank uses Riskfuel AI to accelerate XVA pricing and risk analytics and to warn ahead of large rate/credit/FX moves. riskfuel.com

  • BMO used a Riskfuel proof of concept to accelerate structured note pricing and scenario analysis, per BMO's own newsroom. newsroom.bmo.com

  • With Microsoft, a Riskfuel-accelerated FX barrier-option model on an Azure ND40rs_v2 GPU VM showed a 20-million-times performance improvement over the traditional model. azure.microsoft.com

  • Riskfuel Joins Station Fintech Montreal Accelerator (2022-08-31). riskfuel.com

Products & Services

Company site: riskfuel.com

Products Riskfuel publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

Riskfuel Custom Models

Derivatives pricing acceleration

Trains a neural network to replicate a bank's in-house pricing engine, validated against the production system and deployed alongside it, with a full first-order sensitivity set executed as a single batched call.

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Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

Microsoft

Azure GPU case study: a Riskfuel-accelerated FX barrier-option model ran 20 million times faster on an Azure ND40rs_v2 VM than the original production model.

Intel

Riskfuel Neural Surrogate on Intel Xeon processors with Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions reached about 2.27 million valuations per second, versus about 1 per second for traditional model pricing.

Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. CanExport, National Research Council Canada

  2. CanExport SME, National Research Council Canada

  3. Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms, National Research Council Canada — contribution

  4. Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada

  5. Innovation Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada

  6. Industrial Research Assistance Program – Innovation Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada

Recent News

  1. Jan 30, 2023Other

    Riskfuel Wins 2023 Risk Markets Technology Award

    Riskfuel received the award for Best Use of Machine Learning/AI at the 2023 Risk Markets Technology Awards, which recognize advancements in market risk, trading and investment risk technologies.

Technology Focus

Company site: riskfuel.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Neural network surrogate modelsDerivatives pricingXVA risk managementModel acceleration

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