Visualise risk. Understand it.
Risky Finance helps financial publishers, investors and institutions turn complex market data into powerful, actionable stories. Our mission is to make risk more visible and understandable — by combining journalism-grade clarity with data-science precision.
Founded by Nick Dunbar, finance author and award-winning journalist, Risky Finance builds on more than two decades of experience analysing financial markets and creating innovative data products.
What we do
We design and deliver custom financial data solutions using the proven architecture behind the Risky Finance platform. Our services include:
• Advising on data narratives and visualisations for financial news and research sites.
• Data scraping and API development for bond, equity and regulatory disclosures.
• Database design and back-end architecture for financial data storage and analytics.
• Front-to-back data integration — from ingestion to browser-based dashboards.
• Custom WordPress plugins to embed dynamic, data-driven visuals in editorial content.
Our clients include Markets Media Group, which uses Risky Finance to power bespoke data visualisations and editorial analytics tools. We also provide consulting services on topics such as bond portfolio analytics, valuation of stock options, and other financial modelling needs.
Our data
Risky Finance operates a live browser platform and API infrastructure that aggregates key global datasets, including:
• S&P Global iBoxx monthly feed — price data on more than 25,500 corporate and government bonds worldwide, enabling analysis of credit spreads, yields, durations and country exposures. Provided under license, accessible via API.
• MSCI World index equities — scraped and enriched data on global index constituents, including market capitalisation, sector and country breakdowns, updated regularly and accessible via API.
• Basel Pillar 3 / Federal Reserve bank disclosures — a unique historical database of major banks’ capital, leverage and risk-weighted assets, compiled since 2012.
These datasets power our in-house analytics and can also be licensed or accessed directly through our API for client projects.
How we work
We bridge the gap between financial journalism, quantitative analysis and software engineering. By automating the “slow work” of data gathering and cleaning, we enable clients to focus on insight, storytelling and decision-making.
About the founder
Nick Dunbar is a finance journalist, editor and author with over twenty years’ experience covering risk, regulation and capital markets.
He has edited or launched several specialist publications — including Global Trading, EuroFinance and Risk Magazine — and has written for outlets such as the Financial Times.
Nick is also the author of two acclaimed books on financial innovation, Inventing Money and The Devil’s Derivatives.
He founded Risky Finance in 2013 to combine his editorial and quantitative expertise into a data-driven platform for financial storytelling, bringing together coding, databases and market insight. We provide consulting services in partnership with Vedanta Hedging, an FCA-regulated derivatives and debt advisory firm.
Work with us
Whether you need a one-off data visualisation, a continuous data feed, or a full integration between databases and web publishing,
Risky Finance can help you build it.
Learn more
Want to get started? Have a look at our subscription packages or contact us about bespoke services.