QuoteOriginally posted by: londonerAccording to this forum, model validation in general is not very interesting and hard to get out of it. Are there any bright spots in the industry about model validation?Perhaps, someone who have done validation work in more than one bank can share their experience?It is all now driven by a regulatory environment. So, at top tier american banks you'll be bogged down by constantly changing standards (documentation, testing, revalidation, monitoring). If by interesting you mean developing alternative models, using lots of judgement when testing and documenting, then smaller bank is a better place. As a matter of fact, the same applies to FO quant jobs (apart from the desk, they are now model val bitches too
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