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By Bank of China's credit valuation adjustment (CVA) exposures doubled to 66 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) in the second quarter of 2026, accounting for most of a record quarterly increase across China's major banks. BoC's CVA risk-weighted assets (RWAs) jumped 99%, or 32.8 billion yuan, reaching an all-time high since China's revised capital rules took effect in 2024. The increase pushed aggregate CVA

By A power problem at Australia's SYD1 data centre on August 24 has left clients hosted in its on-premises environment with a prolonged period of impaired functionality on the Nasdaq Trade Surveillance application, Risk.net has learned. One risk manager at a global bank says the NTS has had a "whole slew of new issues" focused on its data centre in Australia since the August outage that have persisted

By Resilience is more than a risk management buzzword at Standard Chartered. The years-long regulatory push to ensure banks keep their doors open and lights on is rooted in operational outages at consumer banks. Across the industry, projects have often been treated as part of the op risk portfolio, but if banks are serious about being resilient, then it requires a wider commitment, according to Mandy

MSCI's physical risk solutions are powered by First Street, a provider of physics-based climate risk data and analytics for every property in the world. They translate physical risk exposure into figures that already sit inside financial workflows: expected credit loss, loan-to-value and regulatory capital.

By Artificial intelligence agents could be deployed to monitor risks and continuously run stress tests to identify vulnerabilities in bank portfolios - and sooner than many people think. Banks are already using the latest AI tools to generate scenarios and develop models for stress-testing - albeit with considerable human oversight. The technology has already proven useful in combatting groupthink

By This article is part of a series benchmarking bank enterprise risk management practices. Sign up for Risk Benchmarking emails here. Supervisors have stepped up their engagement with banks' enterprise risk management teams even as formal regulatory requirements for maintaining an enterprise risk management (ERM) function have changed little, new research shows. Fifty-seven percent of banks say the

By Growing leverage, retail investor herding and concentrated stock indexes all point to greater risks for equity market counterparties in Asia than in the US if sentiment turns against artificial intelligence, risk managers are warning. "The writing is on the wall - when this market corrects, ground zero is going to be right here in Asia," says an Asia-Pacific head of market risk at a global bank.