Tom Osborn
Editor, Risk Benchmarking
Tom is Risk.net's Benchmarking editor, responsible for editorial projects that help firms measure their performance against one another and share best practice. He was the launch editor of Op Risk Benchmarking, Risk Scenarios and the Quant Finance Master's Guide. He was previously desk editor for Risk.net’s risk management coverage.
Prior to joining Risk, he reported on the futures and foreign exchange industries for Dow Jones' Financial News and the Euromoney group.
Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Warwick, UK.
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Articles by Tom Osborn
Mark Yallop on conflicts in fixed income
Banks and their clients need protocol on information sharing, says FMSB chair
BoE: UK banks falling short on stress-test model risk
Recent guidance on stress-test models could be expanded, says BoE exec
Rolet is right – for now
CME/Nex deal could change the established logic on how to deliver rates market savings
3LOD helps bolster risk culture – banks
Credit Suisse links metrics gleaned from first- and second-line risk managers to pay decisions
Barclays op risk chief departs
Outgoing head to be replaced by chief controls officer at the UK bank’s group service company
Fed’s Curti: SMA will smooth capital mismatches
OpRisk North America: non-US banks holding less capital under own-models approach was “a big problem”, says regulator
UBS hoping for capital relief for past op risk losses
OpRisk North America: Swiss bank has taken action to prevent a repeat of costly missteps
OCC forms working group to tackle fraud
OpRisk North America: Rise in cyber fraud prompts US regulator to reassess guidance to examiners
The top 10 op risks – a field guide
Survey should be read as industrywide attempt to relay and share worries anonymously
Europe leaves IM haircutting in CCP recovery crosshairs
No explicit ban in parliamentary text; banks say method could spark exodus from stricken CCPs
LCH margin changes to ease funding stresses, say FCMs
Clearers welcome move to free up excess cash margin and remedy ‘double-dipping’ complaints
JP Morgan urges clients to compress over G-Sib fears
Bank trying to mitigate impact of draft Federal Reserve rule change on clearing business – others are said to be doing the same
Carney: conduct risk failings could spark capital add-ons
Senior Managers Regime is helping BoE identify cultural weaknesses at individual firms, says governor
Sifi snafu: Deutsche's cautionary tale
Subjecting big firms to tougher regulation is sensible in principle but difficult in practice
Credit where it's due
IFRS 9 sweeps away centuries-old accounting conventions; banks look to frontload capital hit
Banks tout machine learning amid regulatory concerns
Machine learning being used to build challenger models for model validation
Banks fear uneven playing field on NSFR
Asian jurisdictions likely to implement key liquidity metric before US and Europe
Modelling cyber risk: FAIR’s fair?
Proponents say factor analysis can be applied to cyber risk; detractors retort results are still guesswork
Analyse this: the future for quants
Quant headcount is up on pre-crisis levels, but jobs in front-office functions have been decimated
LCH margin changes aim to reduce banks’ funding costs
Changes to allow over-collateralisation by buy-side clearers should ease FCMs’ funding burden
New Basel delay throws SMA into doubt
Revised op risk capital framework unlikely to be implemented uniformly, even when a deal is agreed, bankers say
Emerging cyber threats share a familiar root cause
Whether in banking or energy, most cyber breaches start with human error
Natural hedges: swapping the City for New Zealand
After a decade in forex sales, Tony Beard now advises a Maori tribe on hedging