Brexit, Secret Diary of a Risk Manager
With the ongoing chaos in the British political system and the never ending public discourse about Brexit everything came to a head this week.
‘We need to meet to discuss Brexit Risk as soon as possible” came the message from Sarah, the Chair of the...
Recent research has found that two-fifths of UK businesses – primarily SMEs – are unprepared to cope in the event of a no deal Brexit. The survey, from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), found that two-fifths (41%) of all businesses had not...
Last month, the FCA produced its business plan for 2019-20, setting out key priorities and activities for the year ahead. There were plenty of nuggets to help firms improve their risk profiles as well as a raft of insight into regulatory strategy.
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Brexit, Cyber Crime, AI, SM&CR
With the UK facing unprecedented political uncertainty and economic volatility, risk managers are under an increasing amount of pressure to mitigate the impact of external forces on their organisations.
Below we consider 5 of the key challenges that...
Risk Management, FCA, Brexit, Money Laundering
Home Office figures show there has been a rise of 12% from overseas governments and regulatory authorities questioning money-laundering activities.
Risk Management, Incident Management, Brexit
Pre-referendum, many voices within the UK financial services industry called for a remain vote, believing access to the single market and being part of Europe would result in a more stable future. But, let the hand-wringing stop…the UK voted out and...
