Political risk
Kuwait dispute leaves SWF without a head or full board
Fiscal battle between monarch and parliament keeps top positions at sovereign wealth fund vacant
Heightened operational risks in a changing world
Christoph Kurth, partner and member of the global financial institutions leadership team at Baker McKenzie, discusses the growth of conduct and operational risks in the light of the pandemic, including those caused by mass home-working, the enhanced…
Top 10 op risks 2021: geopolitical risk
Stimulus unwind, Covid nationalism and regime changes spell volatile operating environment
Top 10 operational risks for 2021
The biggest op risks for the year ahead, as chosen by senior industry practitioners
The spillover effect of the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist on banks’ cyber risk disclosures in Bangladesh
This study examines the spillover effect of that cyber heist on the cyber risk disclosures of the banking sector in Bangladesh.
To offset US sanctions risk, banks bake in China loan clauses
Global lenders seek to hedge against the threat of US sanctions on China – which seems unlikely to ease under Biden
Big moves, but no panic after tumultuous US election
Treasury market saw its largest post-election move since at least 2000 – but liquidity held up
US election scenarios: meltdown fears if poll contested
Crowd-sourced election scenarios show sharp falls and correlation breaks if Trump challenges results
Growing sanctions raise compliance risk for energy firms
Sanctions increase risk for energy firms as regulators step up enforcement, writes maritime data expert
The UK’s path to EU equivalence: détente or detour?
Race to meet post-Brexit cross-border trading requirements will go down to the wire
Top 10 operational risks for 2020
The biggest op risks for 2020, as chosen by industry practitioners
Top 10 op risks 2020: geopolitical risk
Nationalism, trade wars and epidemics make for a heady cocktail
New Mifid equivalence rules leave UK firms in limbo
Revised market access rules won’t kick in until six months after UK leaves single market
Taming the future: Hong Kong and China
Times are tough for Hong Kong, but it remains the best-positioned financial centre to access China
Show don’t tell: BoE’s climate stress test dilemma
Making the test easier to run could come at the expense of building risk management capacity
At UK stress test banks, loan-loss estimates up £8bn in 2019
Impairments estimated to cut 5.7% off of the banks’ aggregate CET1 capital ratio
Sandbar's focus on idiosyncratic factors sets it apart from its peers in equity market‑neutral
With investors sometimes struggling to find hedge funds that deliver uncorrelated, consistent returns, Sandbar Asset Management stands out from its peers. Its success in running an equity market-neutral strategy is a reflection of its founder and chief…
Engle: rise in geopolitical risks may be overestimated
Risk USA: Nobel laureate’s new ‘Geovol’ model suggests geopolitical risk no higher than during past 20 years
A tech-driven transformation
A panel of experts explores how greater collaboration between risk and finance teams can garner significant benefits and add value, how technological innovation is making the regulatory landscape more complicated to navigate and produce transformative…
Risk FX Briefing: Event insights
What lies ahead for investment managers
Santander tames its trading risk
Group value-at-risk falls 40% in 2018
Credit data: how US industries have fared under Trump
At the halfway point in the administration, time for a credit check, writes David Carruthers
Investors warm to quant tools to gauge political risk
Many funds have lost confidence in traditional ways of measuring political risk
Nex’s Spencer on tech, Brexit and the UK’s identity crisis
Risk30: Icap founder fears return of exchange controls under a Labour government