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Top 10 op risks 2021: employee wellbeing
All-encompassing impact of Covid leaves employees with the feeling of ‘living from work’
Top 10 op risks 2021: regulatory risk
Big dip in fines belies lingering fears over Covid loan mis-selling and sanctions risk
Top 10 op risks 2021: organisational change
Change the sole constant as industry ponders its post-Covid future
Top 10 op risks 2021: conduct risk
Remote working vastly complicates the job of conduct risk supervisors
Top 10 op risks 2021: data compromise
Remote working elevates fears of data theft, misuse and abuse
Top 10 op risks 2021: third-party risk
Pandemic and shift to cloud computing inflame concerns for banks and regulators
Top 10 op risks 2021: theft and fraud
Changes in working practices since Covid shift angle of criminal attack on financial institutions
Top 10 operational risks for 2021
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2021: resilience risk
Industry survives biggest real-world stress test, but challenges remain for firms and regulators
Top 10 op risks 2021: IT disruption
Integrity of core systems paramount as risk managers battle outages and hacks in work from home era
Optimisation firms prep for SA-CCR boom
Flush with new cash, vendors ready rebalancing services ahead of risk-sensitive leverage framework
What lies beneath: Nomura’s iceberg balance sheet
Collateral received by the Japanese bank exceeds its total on-balance-sheet assets – does it matter?
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage
Softer US NSFR could skew global repo pricing
US banks benefit from Treasury repo exemption, while EU banks report only end-quarter ratios
Funds rush to take the temperature of their portfolios
Big investors, including BlackRock, are using new metrics to measure their funds’ carbon emissions
Banks boot up next-gen FX hedging bots
Automated FX hedging can save money and time, proponents argue. But corporates have qualms
Quants pitch strategies for when bonds no longer work
Investors are flocking to alternative diversifiers of equity risk
Held in suspense: late futures orders blamed for Covid meltdown
Buy-side use of average pricing contributed to rash of failed trades and give-ups last March
UK Treasury opens door to ditching Mifid open access rules
Champion of competition in derivatives clearing may throw in the towel
European funds fret over merits and risks of ethical labels
Managers unsure whether to “aspire to” or “run away” from new ESG classifications for funds
The slow corporate embrace of CSAs
Risk.net research finds 28 of 50 large companies now have CSAs – but has the trend run its course?
The lonely Londoners: doubts plague UK quest for equivalence
Planned MoU won’t automatically bring equivalence, leaving firms in limbo for unknown duration
Bonds fall from favour as shock absorbers for equity losses
Ultra-low rates force investors to rethink role of fixed income as diversifier
Quants find new ways to identify inventive companies
Novel uses of patent and other data could help tell trailblazers from phonies