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On resilience risk, banks prepare to let the bad times roll
Lenders bolster first-line teams and upskill boards as compliance with new rules bites
Regionals built first-line defences pre-CrowdStrike
In-business risk teams vary in size and reporting lines, but outage fears are a constant
Public enemy number one: the threat to information security
Nearly half of domestic and regional banks report risk appetite breaches amid heightened sense of insecurity
Asia Risk Awards 2024: The winners
All the winners of this year's Asia Risk awards
Tired of fat-finger blunders, G-Sibs turn to robots for help
Big banks speed up shift towards control automation and AI adoption to counter costly human errors, Benchmarking survey finds
On geopolitical risk, G-Sibs choose their battles
Conflicts – both existing and threatened – raise concern among banks, but many are still grappling to weave the risk into their frameworks
For compliance risk, the big get bigger
Second-line teams have been growing at US G-Sibs – and are set to continue – while Europeans’ flatline
For G-Sibs managing cyber outages, confidence makes the difference
IT disruption drops among top G-Sib concerns this year, as banks revamp models and retool risk indicators
Information security: mind the first-line gap
G-Sibs’ second-line cyber teams still growing, survey shows; others are overhauling KRIs and switching vendors
Top 10 op risks: change brings challenges
Higher interest margins and a trend toward insourcing drive major tech projects
Top 10 op risks: deepfakes drive rise in fraud fears
External fraud re-enters top 10 as artificial intelligence provides new tools for criminals
Top 10 op risks: third parties stoke cyber risk
High-profile hacks on market infrastructures and vendors expose linkage between top three risks
SIMONE, the AI that nearly took down a bank
An algorithm designed to create new structured products ran out of control last year with almost catastrophic consequences for a major bank, as our exclusive whistleblower account reveals
Geopolitics is harsh terrain for FMIs
Idiosyncratic nature of disputes and flare-ups leaves exchange and infrastructure operators blending metrics with guesswork
FMIs get busy, as supervisors circle
Via new roles and controls, exchanges and clearers hope to “get ahead” of regulatory wave
On cyber, FMIs seek to avoid being weapons of mass disruption
Controls focus on basic cyber hygiene, but communicating the risk remains a challenge
The top 10 investment risks for 2024
New fears include mounting government debt, the rise of AI, a credit crunch and regulatory overkill
FMIs look to resilience planning to keep the lights on
Wary of customer and supervisory scrutiny, bourses are pouring resources into scenario planning and controls
Information security: too important to leave to the experts?
Holding a trove of sensitive data, FMIs seek greater safety through shared oversight and smarter reporting
Barking bank watchdogs don’t need to bite
Regional banks add staff, layer up controls to mitigate compliance risks
Execution & process errors: banks try to get beyond blunderdome
Mistakes mean more data for reporting, models and scenarios. But do banks learn from them?