Artificial intelligence
Banks insure against cyber risk, but rarely claim
Risk Benchmarking study finds big banks aggressively negotiating on cost of cover, and seeking offsets to Pillar 2 capital
Communications surveillance in financial markets
Navigating compliance and the AI governance challenge
Four in five banks use AI to manage op risks
Risk Benchmarking: Cyber risk use cases growing; governance and ROI doubts give some pause
AI compute has a governance problem
As exchanges move to launch compute futures, Vishal Gupta argues that the real test is not product innovation, but whether governance can keep pace
Top quants on how AI will change some jobs and steal others
Coding skills will matter less and research skills more, say quants in Risk.net straw poll
Sharon Donnery on the ECB’s great simplification push
The supervisory board member speaks about geopolitical risk, cyber threats and potential banking regulation reforms
How quants are getting the most out of Claude
Agentic tools boost productivity by multiples, but using them takes skill
AI use fastest-growing area of op risk regulatory scrutiny
Risk Benchmarking study finds EU AI Act the dominant driver of nascent bank risk frameworks, even well beyond Europe’s borders
EU banks welcome high-risk systems breather from delay in AI act
But chatbot transparency still applies from August, requiring deployers to disclose use to customers
Trading desks urged to bolster cross-market surveillance
Artificial intelligence could help track market abuse across different instruments and venues
Operationalising AI in capital markets risk infrastructures
How firms are embedding AI into workflows such as FRTB capital calculation, P&L explain and intraday risk monitoring
Why Apac CROs are turning risk into strategic advantage
Resilience, agility and AI-driven analysis are becoming as important as traditional risk oversight for Apac CROs
Second line seeks to stamp its authority on AI risk
Risk Benchmarking study finds fragmented accountability for AI risk among banks, and most are short of controls to contain it
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
Op Risk Benchmarking 2026: explore the data
View interactive charts from Risk.net’s 61-bank study, covering risk appetite breaches, controls, scenario analysis, GRC tech and regulation
Op Risk Benchmarking: Banks seek a home for AI risk
Risk.net’s 2026 study sees record participation and collective unease, as banks race to incorporate AI into op risk frameworks
Third parties cause third of ICT failures, Dora report shows
First annual report shows IT risk is highly interconnected and international, say EU regulators
Correlation breaks and hidden exposures test the risk framework
Market risk leaders are adapting risk frameworks, portfolio surveillance and escalation processes in a more fragmented and reactive market environment
AI could shrink trader roles – markets heads
DekaBank, BNPP AM see hedging, risk position management and bond markets as ripe for robots
Regulators question human-in-the-loop as AI governance tool
Bank of England and FSB executives suggest it’s more important to retain overall accountability
MI9: runtime governance for agentic AI systems
A real-time telemetry system for banks to control and authorise for agentic AI actions
Banks in Asia turn to integrated third-party risk units
Regional and global firms create centres of excellence bridging first and second lines
AI governance rules coming soon, says CFTC chair
Selig doesn’t want to stifle innovation, but says trading or advice algos will need guardrails
One to watch: CarbonAI
Energy Risk Awards 2026: Start-up uses AI to create dynamic, auditable carbon market intelligence