Top 10 op risks: Playing catch-up on geopolitical risk

- By Paulina Pielichata
- 07 Apr 2026

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Geopolitical risk zoomed to the top of financial firms’ worry lists following the outbreak of war in the Middle East.

The US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran – and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on neighbouring countries and closure of shipping lanes – have sown chaos across the region and

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