Geopolitical risk
How enterprise risk rose to the top of the bank
Previously a support function, ERM is naturally positioned to identify strategic risks for the board
Why resilience goes beyond risk at StanChart
Risk Live: Reliability is “a business goal” that can involve difficult trade-offs, says Americas CEO DeFilippo
Banks try to prepare for – not predict – geopolitical shocks
Risk Live: HSBC and KeyBank frameworks were tested by Iran attacks
The ECB’s geopolitical stress test needs a price
Only a market can say how much it should cost to insure against losses from a geopolitical risk event, and none exists, argues academic
The evolution of stress testing: unlock one integrated balance sheet
Stress-testing moves from a periodic regulatory exercise to a continuous, strategic discipline that asks: how bad can it get – and do we have a plan to survive it?
Cross-border credit to the US hits highest since 2008
Milestone of crossing a fifth of GDP represents culmination of decade-long trend
ECB finds gaps in geopolitical stress-testing frameworks
Current methods fail to properly capture impact of geopolitical stress on liquidity
Middle East risks lift StanChart Stage 2 loans
Early alert exposures rise $1.5 billion as conflict-related downgrades mount
Private credit risk doesn’t have to be systemic to be serious
Risk management leader outlines three cracks in the consensus that risk in the private credit sector is contained
Geopolitical shocks and market memory: evidence from crypto and energy assets during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Focussing on energy stocks and cryptocurrencies prior to and during the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, this paper examines the impact of geopolitical conflict on the informational efficiency of financial markets
AI agents could become credit risk managers… almost
Risk Live: Bankers say credit stress-testing could be automated, but humans remain accountable
Former MI6 chief urges AI slowdown
Risk Live: Other AI firms will be “in exactly the same space” as Anthropic’s Mythos, warns Moore
Break down silos to manage geopolitics – risk managers
Risk Live: Experts says scenario planning helps identify who has information needed in a crisis
Sharon Donnery on the ECB’s great simplification push
The supervisory board member speaks about geopolitical risk, cyber threats and potential banking regulation reforms
Everything is connected: Santander’s US CRO shuns siloed thinking
Rise of AI intensifies links between fraud, cyber, third-party and other operational risk categories
Crisis? Which crisis? How ECB stress test failed to see Strait
Banks were told to design geopolitical shock scenarios, but some focused mainly on tariffs
The rise of AI politics
AI should not be treated as just another technology, writes MAS adviser David Hardoon
Top 10 op risks: Playing catch-up on geopolitical risk
Op risk managers downplayed prospect of a major conflict ahead of Iran war
Geopolitics leads Apac credit risk concerns
Geopolitical shocks, liquidity pressure and AI are testing the credit risk model and reshaping credit risk management across Apac
Top 10 operational risks for 2026
Industry shares intel on biggest collective threats, as well as remedies and loss gauges
Top 10 op risks 2026: Cyber stays top, AI risk enters at fifth
Third-party and outsourcing risk climbs to third; fraud and fincrime edge out geopolitical risk