This notice emphasizes the importance of culture risk management in financial institutions. It outlines the responsibilities of senior management and the board in shaping and overseeing the organization's culture. By aligning policies, practices, and behaviors with desired cultural values, financial institutions can mitigate risks.
“In its Opinion EIOPA is calling on the European Commission to take the necessary actions to avoid disproportionate compliance efforts from small insurance undertakings in the transition period prior to the application of the revised Solvency II Directive.”
The FCA encourages firms to assess and implement necessary adjustments to their financial crime systems and controls, which may involve updating internal policies, enhancing monitoring systems, providing training, improving governance, and refining other system components.
"The first report on the state of cybersecurity in the Union provides EU policy makers with an evidence-based overview of the state of play of the cybersecurity landscape and capabilities in the EU. The report also provides policy recommendations to address identified shortcomings and increase the level of cybersecurity across the European Union. "
The UK introduced a new regulatory framework to manage risks from critical third-party providers (CTPs). CTPs must adhere to strict operational resilience requirements, including governance, risk management, and incident response. This framework aims to ensure the stability of the UK financial system by mitigating potential disruptions caused by CTP failures.
The ECB's 2024-2026 priorities for banks include enhancing resilience against economic and geopolitical shocks, improving governance, and advancing digital transformation. Key focuses are on credit risk management, internal governance, and cybersecurity to ensure stability amid rising uncertainties.
FinCEN (US Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) warns financial institutions about deepfakes, emphasizing the shift of compliance risks into operational threats affecting finances, operations, and reputation. Firms must adopt tools like metadata analysis and AI to detect fraud. Reframing compliance as operational risk management enhances resilience, aligning compliance with broader strategic and risk mitigation goals.
“As analysts are primary recipients of these reports, we investigate whether and how analyst forecast properties have changed following the provision of Solvency II information. Using a sample of EEA insurers and a difference-in-differences design, we find reductions in analysts’ earnings forecast errors at the consensus and individual levels, as well as a decrease in forecast dispersion.”
This study proposes a new method for detecting insider trading. The method combines principal component analysis (PCA) with random forest (RF) algorithms. The results show that this method is highly accurate, achieving 96.43% accuracy in classifying transactions as lawful or unlawful. The method also identifies important features, such as ownership and governance, that contribute to insider trading. This approach can help regulators identify and prevent insider trading more effectively.
Cyber risk classifications often fail in out-of-sample forecasting despite their in-sample fit. Dynamic, impact-based classifiers outperform rigid, business-driven ones in predicting losses. Cyber risk types are better suited for modeling event frequency than severity, offering crucial insights for cyber insurance and risk management strategies.