Natacha Maurin
Natacha is a reporter on the risk management desk at Risk.net. She has a bachelor’s degree in history and Spanish from the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2022. She has also worked as a journalist for the Agència Catalana de Notícies in Barcelona, covering Catalan regional affairs.
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EU banks fear loss of NSFR repo relief
European Commission must decide by next June; other jurisdictions adopted softer calibration
Bankers hope EBA op risk taxonomy will go global
Proposed update to 20-year-old risk map is welcomed, but international co-ordination urged
Stage fright: lenders still struggling with IFRS 9 transitions
Divergence in how banks move loans between stages of impairment prompts regulators to push for more homogenous approach
People: New brooms at NatWest and Tradeweb; MUFG splits rates, and more
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AI could cut time for money laundering checks by 99%
Leading crypto exchange rolling out large language model for enhanced due diligence checks
Op risk managers say models will survive phase-out of AMA
Risk Live: Supervisory focus expected to shift to Pillar 2 capital, and ILM may make a comeback in Europe
Third-party risk ‘converging with KYC’ amid regulatory drive
Risk Live: Banks seek annual supplier contract reviews to comply with new resilience requirements
Regulators urged to promote cyber security investment
Public interest in stopping cyber attacks that could trigger bank runs, says Bundesbank researcher
Fed needs to fix discount window op risk – ECB official
Suggests the BTFP might have been unnecessary if existing US facility was more reliable
One year on, regulators still want a cure for bank runs
Broad support for higher outflow assumptions on uninsured deposits, but that won’t save insolvent banks
Basel Committee reviewing design of liquidity ratios
Focus on LCR and NSFR after Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, but assumptions may not change
For a growing number of banks, synthetics are the real deal
More lenders want to use SRTs to offload credit risk, but old hands say they have a long road ahead
Top 10 op risks: deepfakes drive rise in fraud fears
External fraud re-enters top 10 as artificial intelligence provides new tools for criminals
Harsh judgements: why Stateside lenders are upping the Q-factor
As CRE stalls, qualitative adjustments are forming a larger part of US banks’ credit risk allowances
The bank quant who wants to stop GenAI hallucinating
Wells Fargo model risk chief thinks he has found a way to validate large language models
European regulators turn up the heat on IFRS 9 model overlays
After warnings from EBA and BoE, risk managers urge ‘soul-searching’ on post-model adjustments
People: Risk shake-up at Santander, JPM juggles markets, and more
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Tall order: why a unified op risk taxonomy is still elusive
Banks vary in how they classify operational risk losses – and regulators are in no rush to change the status quo
Can CRE credit risk models cope with hybrid working?
As US office use changes, modellers deploy judgement overlays and alternative data to keep up
Climate risk overlays unnerve model-validation teams
Risk Live: Model risk managers fear they lack the data or skills to properly test expert judgement
New UK fraud rules intensify global focus on third-party risk
Firms will have responsibility to ensure “associated” persons are taking steps to prevent fraud
FCA warns on third-party risk management for AI projects
UK regulator keeping close eye on use of cloud and vendor partnerships to develop new models
Bankers – shape up or ship out, says UBS compliance head
Tough approach comes as ECB prepares new guidance on conduct risk for 2024 release
People: Finma CEO quits, Citi’s dealmaking promotion, and more
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