Operational resilience
Top 10 op risks: AI fears drive cyber risk to record high
External fraud re-enters top 10; change management now a top five concern
LME had four-hour operational failure in Q4
First outage on record caused by connectivity issue at LMEmercury
Citrix Bleed hacks flag IT asset inventory shortfalls
To know what needs urgent patching, global banks first need to know what software they have
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
Operational resilience using the cloud
This webinar focuses on the business and operational benefits to firms on the back of their cloud strategies, across an industry that is often unforgiving to those not able to guarantee 100% uptime, operational robustness and competitiveness
Post-Brexit divergence puts EU subsidiaries on the rack
Banks face choice between higher staffing costs or over-engineered processes at UK headquarters
Banks grapple with concentration risk from fourth parties
Risk Live: Third-party vendors are increasingly reliant on the same subcontractors
Regulator warns against ‘happy endings’ for op risk wargames
Risk Live: Bankers say third parties should also be at the table when simulating crisis scenarios
Execution & process errors: banks try to get beyond blunderdome
Mistakes mean more data for reporting, models and scenarios. But do banks learn from them?
On cyber risk, regionals have no appetite for disruption
Smaller lenders fear outages and other IT bungles, as do regulators. So, what are they doing about it?
Maximum insecurity: banks tool up to meet cyber threat
Lenders confront “existential” threat of data leaks with bigger teams and better controls
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
CME, DTCC lead CCPs on operational failures
Analysis of 15 clearing houses shows outages lasting 34 hours in the past year – highest figure since 2019
Vendors under new scrutiny in CFTC due diligence push
Planned cyber resilience regime will force dealers to subject “critical” tech vendors to stricter audit
Banks call for direct oversight of cloud providers by US regulators
Tri-opoly of cloud vendors “poses systemic risk” to financial sector, say risk managers
Power play: how geopolitics is shaping op risk at G-Sibs
Geopolitics is a top five fear for G-Sibs, but most banks lack specialist risk staff and classical tools
Raising the bar on operational resilience
The FCA's operational resilience guidelines set clear expectations for how financial firms should strengthen their resilience against operational disruptions. But how are firms faring in meeting these goals?
Dora ‘critical tech vendor’ designation could cast a wide net
Experts think cloud services, data providers and software firms are all in regulators’ sights
FMIs pose greatest challenge for operational resilience tests
Risk Live: Calls for large-scale industry exercises to plan what happens if major CCPs go down
Compliance can help fintechs grow from adolescence to adulthood
It may slow US banking down, but customer safety is the difference between success and failure
Liquidity risk learnings in the banking industry
Sidhartha Dash, chief researcher at Chartis Research (part of Risk.net's digital network), talks to Steve Pemberton, chief executive of Coherent Europe, about the dynamics and challenges surrounding liquidity risk in the banking industry
Top 10 operational risks: Focus on third-party risk
Ion hack deals industry painful reminder on drawbacks of outsourcing
One-fifth of CME clearing members hit by Ion hack
Advisory committee heard CFTC believed it could “play a more direct role” in cyber security practices
Top 10 operational risks for 2023
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners