Op risk benchmarking
Welcome to Op Risk Benchmarking, a new research service scrutinising op risk practices at a range of financial institutions. Each quarter, we’ll share some of the findings from one of four cohorts – G-Sibs, other banks, asset managers and insurers, and FMIs.
Participants get to see all the data – message us for details: ORMBenchmarking@risk.net

On resilience risk, banks prepare to let the bad times roll
Lenders bolster first-line teams and upskill boards as compliance with new rules bites

For banks, change risk is inevitable; managing it, optional
Regional bank survey shows steady growth of dedicated change risk functions and adoption of leading indicators

As supplier risk grows, banks check their third-party guest lists
Dora forces rethink of KRI and appetite frameworks amid reappraisal of what constitutes a key counterparty

Regionals built first-line defences pre-CrowdStrike
In-business risk teams vary in size and reporting lines, but outage fears are a constant

Public enemy number one: the threat to information security
Nearly half of domestic and regional banks report risk appetite breaches amid heightened sense of insecurity

Op Risk Benchmarking: The G-Sibs
Using data submitted by 11 G-Sibs, our new Benchmarking series explores how the world’s largest banks are managing their biggest operational risks. Team sizes and setups, modelling practices, internal reporting, GRC vendors – take a look here.
Big Figure
Safety in numbers?
FMIs demonstrate broad variability in the size of the second-line teams tasked with overseeing infosec – but that’s starting from a relatively low base: many have teams comprising of just one specialist, while the mean average is slightly more than five.

Op Risk Benchmarking: Banks
Our second Op Risk Benchmarking series focuses on op risk frameworks at large domestic and regional banks, taking a deep dive into each of their top five risks: information security; IT disruption; change management; execution & process errors; and regulatory compliance risk.