Top 10 operational risks for 2024
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Top 10 Op Risks. This year’s survey enjoyed a record participation rate: 81 firms took part, a high watermark in the near two decades Risk.net has been running the poll. More than half were banks, but a record number of institutional investors and financial market infrastructures are represented too, with separate rankings produced for each.
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