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How enterprise risk rose to the top of the bank
Previously a support function, ERM is naturally positioned to identify strategic risks for the board
Dealers still split on XVA desks’ funding remit
Risk Benchmarking: Global dealers use XVA desks to manage swaps funding needs, but most treasuries retain some control
Can prediction markets pass the institutional sniff test?
Regulated firms need credible event determination methodologies and cross-product margining to enable use, say experts
Future of settlement is taking shape – so are some big questions
Cash or coins? How to tackle loss of netting? What about CBDCs? Market has a lot to decide in settlement revamp
People: Lloyds lands new CRO, NatWest reshuffles top deck, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Banks want AML data upgrade to complement US regulatory reform
FinCEN’s proposed overhaul sparks debate on whether it will lead to smarter or weaker supervision
Agentic AI
Why a hybrid approach works best for AI in credit risk modelling
AI helps models look beyond quarterly reports, but CRO says governance curtails full automation
An agentic bank? Not so fast
With no clear definition or way to gauge ROI, claims of AI adoption should be taken with a pinch of salt
Barclays built a system to spot AI agents that might go rogue
Research setup ‘reads the mind’ of LLM-based agents and flags if they’re about to do something risky
Agentic risk management could arrive ‘sooner than we think’
Risk Live: Models are capable, but banks lack platform and governance to safely run agentic systems
Risk Quantum
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Risk Quantum finds insights in data. The service tracks the public disclosures of over 120 banks, funds, insurers, corporates, and central counterparties – as well as reports from prudential and markets regulators – in Asia, Europe and North America.
Wells Fargo’s problem commercial loans shift towards C&I
Share of commercial nonaccruals tied to C&I more than doubles since late 2023
Enterprise Risk Management
For enterprise risk, influence runs deeper than any veto
Risk Benchmarking study finds formal veto rights concentrated among the largest lenders, but used only as a last resort
Tech and data fragmentation irks enterprise risk managers
Risk Benchmarking: Often at the mercy of decisions made by other parts of the bank, ERM heads gripe at disparate systems, poor UX and reporting gaps
At bigger banks, enterprise risk owns scenario frameworks
Risk Benchmarking research finds ERM teams tasked with providing effective challenge on scenario construction across risk silos
Supervisors becoming more demanding, say ERM teams
Risk Benchmarking: More than half report rising supervisory contact, despite unchanging requirements for an ERM function
Swiss franc loan losses are a grey rhino for EU consumer finance
Impact on Polish banks exposed a blind spot on modelling legal risk that has wider implications, says mBank CRO Marek Lusztyn
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