Insurance and ESG

The increasingly noticeable negative effects of climate change have led to many regulatory initiatives and requirements in the insurance industry, both European and national. For this reason and due to growing customer preferences for sustainable insurance and financial products, insurance Read More …

Navigating technology and data complexity in bank credit analysis

As financial institutions grapple with a period of heightened uncertainty, credit risk managers are under more pressure than ever to provide credible assessments of what might happen next. And a volatile market outlook, questions over the direction of monetary policy Read More …

ESG grounded in reality: greater scrutiny calls for robust risk assessment

There are two things on which it is easy to agree regarding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). First, with sustainability having become the focus of huge attention in recent years, it has stormed up the corporate agenda. Second, and less Read More …

Reducing Operational Risk with Systems Engineering

Costly, impactful operational risk events – ranging from fraud, money laundering and record-keeping failures to geopolitical risk and Libor manipulation – grabbed many headlines in 2022. The businesses at the heart of several scandals, including Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Read More …

Environmental, Social and Governance Credit Risks to Rise in 2023

Economic and political turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be likely to heighten environmental, social and governance (ESG) credit risks this year, credit rating agency Moody’s said on Monday. The cost-of-living crisis stemming from Read More …

5 steps for effective fraud and risk management in the payments industry

With the advancement of technology, digitisation has taken a central spot in the payment landscape. Digital payments are omnipresent in today’s interconnected world and have made transactions faster and simpler. This paradigm shift has revolutionised e-commerce and trade. The immense Read More …