How Japan is changing, in two charts

26 March 2026EconomicsJapanNick Dunbar

Japan’s financial markets are undergoing profound change and this can be seen in two new visualisations

Playing MSCI’s quarterly rebalances

4 March 2026Stocksequity trading, index rebalancing, MSCINick Dunbar

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

5 January 2026StocksAnthropic, Nvidia, OpenAINick Dunbar

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

iBoxx top movers

7 December 2025UncategorizedNick Dunbar

Understanding Goldman’s $687m trading loss

30 December 2024Banks, Risk CommentaryBasel rules, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, Value-at-riskNick Dunbar

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

Battle of the yield curves

30 December 2024Economicssovereign debtNick Dunbar

Bond investors have started to notice France’s political deadlock, and we show the impact in a new animated yield curve visualisation

Agents of change

14 October 2024Book Reviewsagent-based modelling, complexity economicsNick Dunbar

Making Sense of Chaos’ by J. Doyne Farmer (Penguin Books) As any student will tell you, no doubt armed with chat GPT, economics is defined as “The study of the allocation of scarce resources”. But a more difficult question is this: what is economics for? To its critics, much of academic economics appears to exist…