Articles by Tom Osborn
Top 10 op risks 2023: regulatory risk jumps sharply
Cyber and third-party risks also rise, along with concerns around data management and execution errors
Ukraine nuclear scenarios: black enough for you?
A nuclear strike on Ukraine would open the door to the pit; our readers guessed how markets would fare, with surprising results
US midterm election scenarios: a fright after Halloween
Republican control of Congress could deal “a sharp shock to markets”, analysis suggests
Interest rate scenarios: skinny-dipping with the Fed
As US rates march upwards, Risk.net readers offer deeply diverging forecasts on the impact for markets through to 2024
Ex-Deutsche CRO: banks face hundreds of billions in climate fines
Banks risk becoming a “whipping dog” in the fight against climate change, says departing risk chief
Nickel debacle weakens UK’s case on clearing supervision
LME episode comes amid scrutiny of UK regime and fresh Brexit row
Archegos, LME show swaps data blindspots – CFTC chair
Regulator is actively looking to beef up reporting and data aggregation capabilities for index swaps
Inflation scenarios, pt II: end of the party
Whether inflation rises or falls, crowdsourced scenarios forecast huge range of outcomes
Trumid, SGX Asia bonds JV faces uncertain future
Costly delays to launch of exchange sees backers slash headcount
Behnam urges wider CCP access to Fed deposit accounts
CFTC chair says recent market shocks highlight value of Fed accounts; Congressman agrees
The top 10 op risks, reloaded
Survey to be expanded as part of benchmarking exercise
Covid isn’t killing corporate entertaining – it’s dead, anyway
For a generation of bankers and vendors, client hospitality was part of life. But the party is winding down
The bank, the vendor, the turrets and the golf day
After DBS switched supplier, a row broke out, raising questions about entertainment and influence
Citi reorg the final note in failed swaps clearing model
Strategic shift from OTC clearing powerhouse to client support function marks the end of an era
Goldman inks modelling, data tie-up with MSCI
Move to cross-sell risk analytics could herald further content deals for bank’s Marquee platform, says sales chief
Games of hazard: NSCC’s margin waiver sets bad precedent
By waiving a $2.2 billion cash call for Robinhood, members worry the NSCC may have dug itself a trap
Op risk managers could be Covid long-haulers
New threats sprang from old sources in this year’s Top 10 op risks, belying a big drop in losses
March’s clearing failures give new life to an old idea
Futures industry snubbed chance to build post-trade utility before. Now, it really needs one
Deutsche Bank lines up new head of op risk
Appointment follows departure of Bakhshi to CRO role at LSEG
Why the US election fallout was not a surprise to banks
A contested result was unexpected, but scenario planning meant banks weren’t unprepared
US election scenarios: meltdown fears if poll contested
Crowdsourced election scenarios show sharp falls and correlation breaks if Trump challenges results
Covid scenarios, pt II: apocalypse how?
Second crowdsourced scenario exercise reveals polarised views in equities and FX
FRTB – Getting the fundamentals in place
Step inside an alternate reality, where FRTB was in force during the Covid crash
Stuart Lewis, Deutsche’s survivor, confronts Covid-19
CRO talks loan reserves, VAR breaches, and the lessons of a lurid past