Conduct risk
A sea change – Driving awareness to confront climate risk
Amid a global push towards green policies, the reality of overhauling how industries worth trillions of dollars operate is causing concern. A forum of market participants and sponsors of this report discuss the levels of awareness of climate risk and its…
Top 10 operational risks for 2020
The biggest op risks for 2020, as chosen by industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2020: conduct risk
Root-and-branch reform of bank culture remains a work in progress
IT disruption chief concern in Top 10 Op Risks survey 2020
Risk managers cite data compromise, theft & fraud and third-party risk among other top worries
Break up big conduct risk losses to aid modelling, say quants
New approach delivers stable measure of conduct risk VAR, says senior op risk quant
EU banks failing on op risk and governance – ECB
Central bank raises concerns on board management, risk controls and data aggregation
Estimation of value-at-risk for conduct risk losses using pseudo-marginal Markov chain Monte Carlo
The authors propose a model for conduct risk losses, in which conduct risk losses are characterized by having a small number of extremely large losses (perhaps only one) with more numerous smaller losses.
NY Fed’s Stiroh: ‘More work to be done’ on bank culture
Supervision chief warns on new risks from machine learning bias
Industry-led op risk taxonomy launches
Scheme aims to complement Basel classifications, ease peer comparison
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