The European Risk Management Council has published the Q2 2023 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the update of  the Risk Sentiment Index. Q2 2023 surveys conducted by the Council in the UK and APAC have yielded intriguing findings. While major risk drivers such as geopolitical tension, high inflation, and market volatility possess a global nature, our experts in the UK and APAC hold notably distinct expectations regarding the future dynamics of the risk landscape for financial services.

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The European Risk Management Council has published the Q2 2022 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– Credit risk analytics: Shaping the future of the credit business: the article, written by Daniel Rolles and Manish Dureja, focusses on the global trends in credit risk analytics and the assessment of credit risk analytics maturity for financial institutions.

– Measuring the physical risks of climate change: overcoming the complexities: The article by Lindsey Hall provides a case study of the assessment of physical risk for the technology sector and advocates a data-driven bottom-up analysis that financial institutions should implement.

– Risk Sentiment Index – Q2 2022 UK and APAC Update: the results of surveys of CROs and risk executives recently conducted by the European Risk Management Council suggest that the financial services should be prepared for another bumpy ride ahead.

The European Risk Management Council has published the Q4 2021 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– Geopolitics, Corporate Governance and ESG: the article is written by  Derek Leatherdale and Peter Neville Lewis. The article discusses links between geopolitical risk, business resilience and ESG and an integration of geopolitical risk to the existing risk management framework and Board agenda.

– UK Risk Sentiment Index – Q4 2021 Update: the fresh survey of CROs and risk executives conducted by the Council revealed an interesting relationship between the ongoing pandemic crisis and the index. The detailed results of the UK Risk Sentiment Index are presented in the article.  

The European Risk Management Council has published the Q3 2021 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– Helping Financial Institutions with Climate-Related Scenarios: the article produced by S&P Global Sustainable1. The article discusses challenges that financial institutions face in preparing and running climate-related stress tests and how these issues could be solved.

– In a world of risk, pace comes from preparation: the article written by Dr Christian Pedersen, Head of Risk, Accenture, Growth Markets. It provides main findings of 2021 Global Risk Management Study, a signature piece of research done by Accenture. 

The European Risk Management Council has published the Q2 2021 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– How companies capture the value of sustainability: by Anna Granskog (Partner, Helsinki), Eric Hannon (Partner, Frankfurt), Solveigh Hieronimus (Senior Partner, Munich), Marie Klaeyle (Consultant, Paris), and Angela Winkle (Consultant, Chicago), this is an abridged version of an article presenting findings of a recent survey conducted by McKinsey.

– Risk Sentiment Index: The crisis will be over in the next 12 months… The results of surveys that we recently conducted in the UK suggest that the optimistic expectations regarding the economic recovery start prevailing among Chief Risk Officers and other risk decision-makers.

The European Risk Management Council has published the Q1 2021 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– Resilience, for Cyber Integrity: the article written by Kevin Duffey, CEO at Cyber Rescue Alliance, provides an analysis of fast-evolving cyber threats with a specific focus on the cyber integrity which will be an important element of the forthcoming Cyber Stress Test announced by the Bank of England.

– Risk Sentiment Index: Finally, the mood has changed but concerns remain… We publish results of the recent surveys that European Risk Management Council conducted in the UK and APAC. After the doom and gloom of 2020, the first quarter of 2021 is characterised by a change of the mood. While the risk sentiment much improved in Q1 2021, there are some areas of concern that risk executives should continue focusing on.

The European Risk Management Council has published the Q4 2020 Risk Landscape Review. This edition includes the following articles:

– “Improving Resilience post-COVID: Role of Risk Management” by Dr Christian Pedersen, Head of Risk & Compliance at Accenture (Growth Markets). The article focuses on critical areas of the operational resilience framework and proposes practical steps to enhance it.

– “It’s the Fragility that Matters” – David Dredge, Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer at Convex Strategies, discusses fragility of the financial system in the light of tail risk events, weaknesses of popular risk metrics and ways to make the system less fragile.

– “The Purpose of Organisations?” – the article written by Peter Neville Lewis CMIRM, Director at Risk Coalition Research Company, is dedicated to business culture, purpose, integrity and social values that are paramount for an organisation to survive and thrive.