Methodology
Methodology
Why Most Banks Can't Identify Their Own Risks
The gap between having a risk register and having a risk identification process. And why the regulator sees the difference immediately.
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Methodology
The gap between having a risk register and having a risk identification process. And why the regulator sees the difference immediately.
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Across PRA, EBA, and the Fed, the same finding appears in supervisory reviews year after year. Here's what it is and how to fix it.
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If you don't attach a data quality rating to every risk score, you're presenting false precision to the Board. Here's why it matters.
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What it's actually like to build a risk identification function from scratch at a global bank. The wins, the resistance, and the lessons.
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Most banks do top-down OR bottom-up identification. Almost none iterate between them. This is where the process breaks down.
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Beyond the textbook: how to build bow-ties that are useful for Board communication and actually improve risk understanding.
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Fed SR 15-18 requires quarterly risk re-identification, not just re-assessment. The distinction matters for CCAR compliance.
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Why treating climate as a separate risk type misses the point. How to map transmission channels through your existing taxonomy.
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From Nick Leeson to Archegos, the same failure mode repeats: known risks escalated and ignored. Three decades of evidence from the Industry Loss Database.
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Concentration blindness, model overreliance, cultural suppression, governance bypass. A pattern analysis of the Industry Loss Database.
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Different decades, different asset classes, identical failure. Why concentration risk keeps slipping through identification processes.
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When fintech complexity outpaces the risk identification process. What these failures teach about horizon scanning and the Delphi method.
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