BoE warns over risk of system-wide cyber attack

Senior policy official Carolyn Wilkins also expresses concern over global fragmentation of bank regulation

Carolyn Wilkins
Wilkins: operational events can have “system-wide effects” across sectors and borders
Bank of Canada

A senior Bank of England (BoE) policy-maker has identified a cyber attack with system-wide consequences as a category of risk that “keeps me up at night”. Responding to a question at an event on geopolitical risk organised by Fitch Ratings on January 23, Financial Policy Committee member Carolyn Wilkins said a cyber attack affecting multiple institutions “feels like the kind of event we have seen”, even if such an attack has not had a systemic impact so far.

“There have been particular events

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