Top 10 op risks: AI upends risk taxonomies

- By Menghan Xiao
- 10 Apr 2026

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Across boardrooms, earning calls and industry forums, financial institutions are talking about doing more with less – simplifying operations, streamlining, cost-cutting. Every project is idiosyncratic, but the enabler is the same: generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

The pace of the industry’s adoption of AI has

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