Political risk
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
FX options traders rethink vol drivers amid macro uncertainty
Market-makers believe more and more events will influence options pricing as political risk bubbles up during 2024
Geopolitics is harsh terrain for FMIs
Idiosyncratic nature of disputes and flare-ups leaves exchange and infrastructure operators blending metrics with guesswork
Top 10 operational risks for 2023
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2023: regulatory risk jumps sharply
Cyber and third-party risks also rise, along with concerns around data management and execution errors
Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2023
Geopolitical frictions, sticky inflation and a hard landing are among the hazards cited by investors
Ukraine nuclear scenarios: black enough for you?
A nuclear strike on Ukraine would open the door to the pit; our readers guessed how markets would fare, with surprising results
New investor solutions for inflationary markets
Geopolitical risks, price volatility, clashing cycles, higher interest rates – these are tough times for economies and investors. Ahead of the 2022 Societe Generale/Risk.net Derivatives and Quant Conference, Risk.net spoke to the bank’s team about some…
EU banks add overlays as crises evade modelling
Lenders buttress provisions against unpredictable fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
No link between geopolitical risk signals and returns – hedge fund
Gauges of geopolitical risk are better at predicting volatility than equity returns, research from XAI finds
Geopolitical risk models not ‘rigorous’ enough, says quant
Joseph Simonian believes game theory and reinforcement learning could improve matters
Geopolitics, volatility and transformation: the top trading and intraday risk management concerns
At a recent webinar held by ICE and Asia Risk, experts discussed how they are dealing with unprecedented global events and the subsequent impacts on volatility
Fog of war: the struggle to manage geopolitical risk
Financial firms ponder how to factor the Ukraine conflict and wider global unrest into stress-testing
OCC sees sharp drop in ransomware attacks on US banks
OpRisk North America: drop-off confounds expectations and mystifies regulators
As geopolitical risk spikes, a major index gets a revamp
Geovol risk gauge built by Nobel laureate Robert Engle to become Global Covol
UniCredit takes 92bp core ratio hit as Russian risks bite
Italian lender books €1.2bn of provisions, €9.5bn of new RWAs
EU banks kept building Russian exposures as sanctions loomed
Latest EBA data shows the bloc’s lenders cut holdings of government debt securities, but increased commitments to private sector
Banks tout CCAR-style stress tests for emergent risks
Extreme-but-plausible scenario planning is being applied to geopolitical events such as Ukraine conflict
Top 10 operational risks for 2022
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2022: geopolitical risk takes centre stage
Ukraine invasion, western sanctions and Russian response seen driving big rise in cyber and supply chain risks
Raiffeisen’s Russia assets hit new high at end-2021
The Austrian lender kept growing its balance sheet in the country even as Moscow’s manoeuvres put it on a path to all-sweeping sanctions