Conduct risk
Risk oversight at Aussie banks under fire again
Asic criticises boards and management for immature oversight of op risks
Realising opportunities while managing conduct risk
As efforts to transition from Libor to risk-free rates ramp up, Maria Blanco and Nassim Daneshzadeh, partners in PwC’s US and UK financial services practices, discuss two critical and interconnected strategies that are front and centre for PwC clients
A behavioural lens could help manage human risk
Human decision-making needs careful watching. For that, behavioural science can help
FCA has active pipeline of misconduct investigations
As expansion of SMR to smaller firms looms, regulator says plenty of bankers are under scrutiny
Aussie regulator signals tougher misconduct stance
Asic warns it will use new powers to punish misconduct in wake of excoriating Royal Commission review
Debelle swings at ‘buyer beware’ disclosures in FX
“They don’t give you free licence to do whatever you want,” says new GFXC chair
Asia-Pacific banks revise conduct scorecards
DBS, Maybank and others tweak performance metrics to reward good behaviour over hard sales
Op risk data: losses decline sharply in first half
Conduct losses account for most of $8.5 billion total. Data by ORX News
Privacy laws crimp bank efforts to snoop on traders
Banks want to surveil employees to prevent malfeasance. GDPR is hobbling those efforts
Keeping the robots honest
Human overseers are in short supply in an arena where losses can be crippling in minutes
Royal Commission report sparks conduct risk changes at ANZ
Regulators must work with banks on conduct risk rules to avoid “box-ticking exercise”
BoE makes climate risk a hot topic for banks
Financial institutions must entrust oversight of climate risk to named individual under senior managers regime
FCA may delay enforcement of UK’s conduct regime
Smaller firms won’t be penalised right away, says head of regulatory decisions committee
Royal Commission refunds weigh on Aussie banks
A$1.7 billion of remediation costs taken by Big Four in H1
Irish central bank welcomes ‘culture board’
Board must push changes called for by central bank reports, says CBI’s financial conduct head
At EU banks, bad business practices led op risk losses
Misconduct trumped external fraud and process management failures
Legal charges topped £6 billion at UK banks in 2018
Majority of costs relate to legacy issues, including PPI and RMBS mis-selling
Top 10 op risks 2019: mis-selling
Concern over sales practices remains amid economic and political uncertainties
Legal fines dent StanChart profits
The bank put aside $900 million last year to cover penalties related to a series of investigations
Aussie banks: a right Royal mess
Misconduct probe sparks board changes and bout of introspection at Big 4
Apac bank boards: light on risk experience
Survey of 24 large Apac bank board risk committees shows dearth of risk managers
Model risk chiefs warn on machine learning bias
ML model outputs open to “potential bias sitting in your datasets”, says RBS model risk head
Top 10 operational risk losses of 2018
Mega-fraud at China’s Anbang pushes up total losses year on year; SocGen suffers double blow
Taking the lead on financial crime regulatory compliance
Increased scrutiny of anti-money laundering and customer due-diligence procedures means banks must create more efficient and effective systems. A recent webinar conducted by Risk.net and IBM discussed how leading banks are utilising artificial…