Episodes
In this episode, Simon Wills, Luke Carrivick, and Steve Bishop discuss our strategic vision for operational and non-financial risk. They explore how changes have impacted operational and non-financial risk profiles and priorities. And look at why this transformation requires a shift in the approach to risk management. Some of the topics explored are: Do we see a transformation in the business? Do we think that transformation in the business is impacting risk priorities and profiles? And as a...
Published 11/07/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of September 2024, as well as the latest editorial content including recent developments in an anti-money laundering (AML) case which cost Danske Bank $3 billion dollars in fines. You can find the top 5 largest operational risk losses discussed in this episode on our website at: https://orx.org/blog/top-5-orx-news-losses-q3-2024 ORX News subscribers can read more...
Published 10/29/24
In this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast, Simon Johnson and Rob Reay-Jones discuss the newly published ORX Scenarios State of the Industry White Paper. The White Paper highlights six industry priorities that can help make the scenario process can become more efficient and effective, helping financial organisations to release the full potential of scenarios as an active value-adding risk management tool. In addition to the key priorities, the team look at progress made to date, the...
Published 10/17/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of August 2024, as well as the latest developments in the “WhatsApp probe” and a summary of their most recent deep dive on one of the most talked about events of year so far – CrowdStrike. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 09/26/24
In this episode, Sarah Astill and Martin Monakhov explore the key headlines from our recent paper on risk quantification practices. They discuss how financial firms are approaching focus on four key risk areas – cyber risk, third-party risk, climate risk, and risks associated with AI. The episode looks at commonalities in how organisations are quantifying risks (for example, using a scenario-driven approach), the challenges faced and how firms are approaching event categorisation. The Risk...
Published 09/12/24
Listen to this re-released episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team discuss third-party risks in connection to three major cyber events – MOVEit, Accellion, and Solarwinds. The team are taking a break over the holiday season and will be back with new content in September covering some exciting topics. You can find the latest ORX News top 5 operational risk losses for July 2024 on our website at: https://orx.org/blog/top-5-orx-news-losses-q3-2024 ORX News...
Published 08/12/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Matthew Glinister, Head of Risk Management, Emilie Odin, Research Manager, and Natasha Smith-Craig, Assistant Research Manager, discuss the outcomes of our most recent Top Risk Review survey, which provides insights of personal views on the most significant current material risks impacting the financial services industry. In the episode, they explore the key themes and top risks identified in the study, including information...
Published 07/31/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of June 2024 and a re-release of a previous episode where they discussed global initiatives and pledges to address climate change, a significant greenwashing settlement, ESG and green investments in the financial sector. This is in light of a significant development in June this year, where the European Supervisory Authorities published their final reports on...
Published 07/25/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Matthew Glinister, Head of Risk Management; Simon Wills, Senior Board Advisor; Steve Bishop, Research and Information Director; and Natasha Smith-Craig, Assistant Research Manager, discuss Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) – a topic that ORX members often come to us looking for guidance and to better understand how their peers approach it. In view of the challenges firms face with RCSAs, the episode focuses on how they...
Published 07/02/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of May 2024, as well as focus on two significant events reportedly caused by human error. Specifically, a fat finger error which recently cost Citi $139 million dollars and another case which cost Barclays $1.5 billion dollars. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 06/26/24
Following on from last month's episode on how cyber risk management is evolving and ahead of our upcoming European and North American Cyber Forums, we're re-releasing this episode looking at how firms can manage cyber risk scenarios. Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast where the ORX Cyber and ORX Scenarios teams take a look at the highlights from our Managing Cyber Risk Scenarios study. They discuss what the study was about, why we decided to focus on cyber risk...
Published 05/29/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of April 2024, as well as bring you the latest from their recent Deep Dive on the investigations and penalties resulting from the WhatsApp probe – a probe that cost 39 financial firms nearly 3 billion dollars in fines. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 05/24/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Steve Bishop, ORX Research and Information Director, Helen L’Abbate, ORX Head of Services, and Melanie Lavallin, ORX Senior Adviser, discuss some of the key outcomes from our latest white paper from the ORX Cyber service – Faster & safer: Priorities for cyber risk management. The study gathered views on how the discipline needs to evolve strategically, and the challenges it expects to face over the coming years. In the...
Published 04/30/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of March 2024, as well as delve into the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s first ever fine against two investment advisers over AI washing, and a landmark agreement between the US and the UK on testing the safety of AI. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 04/25/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of February 2024, as well as the key findings from the latest Year in Review report including trends in conduct, cyber, fraud, and other risks. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website at: https://orx.org/blog/top-5-orx-news-losses-q1-2024 You can also listen to our podcast on the ORX...
Published 03/28/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Matthew Glinister, ORX Head of Risk Management, and Natasha Smith-Craig, ORX Assistant Research Manager, discuss some of the key findings and outcomes from the recently published Operational Risk Horizon 2024 report. In the episode, they cover the top five emerging risk categories from the study and an overview of what can be learnt from the headline findings in the report. The full Operational Risk Horizon 2024 report and the...
Published 03/22/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of January 2024, as well as the perennial issue of third-party risk, including the cost of keeping and moving on from a flawed IT system, supplier shortcomings, and digital supply chain risk. These themes are covered in the episode by the Post Office and Horizon scandal and the MOVEit hack. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode,...
Published 02/29/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Matthew Glinister, ORX Head of Risk Management, and Natasha Smith-Craig, ORX Assistant Research Manager, summarise the outcomes of recent sessions with the ORX Risk Management Working Group, which explored the operational risk management control framework. They cover how ORX members are describing and documenting their controls, how they categorise their controls and what attributes these controls have, how they record and...
Published 02/29/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Sarah Astill, ORX Head of Risk Measurement, and Martin Monakhov, ORX Research Manager, discuss some of the key findings and outcomes from the 2023 CCAR Methodology Study. In the episode, they cover broader information about the ORX CCAR Community and the benefits it provides, how the 2023 CCAR Methodology Study report was put together, the key observations from the study, and some plans looking ahead to 2024. The full CCAR...
Published 01/30/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of December 2023, as well as the top 5 largest losses of 2023. They also highlight the L1 and L2 categories of the ORX Reference Taxonomy that the ORX News team used to tag those events. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 01/23/24
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of November 2023 and some highlights coming up in 2024. This is our final podcast of 2023, so thank you very much to all of our listeners this year and we wish you a wonderful festive season and a very happy new year.   You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website...
Published 12/14/23
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear Steve Bishop and Matt Glinister from ORX discuss the outcomes of our most recent Top Risk Review survey, which provides insights into the key current top operational risks facing the financial services industry. In the episode, they explore the key themes and top risks identified in the study, including information security and cyber, third party, technology, and data management.   The full Top Risk Review November 2023 report...
Published 12/06/23
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the five largest operational risk losses of October 2023 and discuss third-party risks in connection to three major cyber events – MOVEit, Accellion, and Solarwinds. You can find the top 5 operational risk losses discussed in this episode, along with all previous top 5s, on our website at: https://orx.org/blog/top-5-orx-news-losses-q4-2023 ORX News subscribers can read more on the stories covered in...
Published 12/05/23
In this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast, the ORX Scenarios team discuss the key trends we’ve seen from this year’s ORX Scenario Library. The Scenario Library is a comprehensive database of operational risk scenarios submitted by our subscribers each year. It currently contains over 1000 quality assured scenarios across different business lines, sizes and regions shared by over 60 firms. The team cover key trends from this year’s library submissions, including the rise of...
Published 11/08/23