Could integrated risk controls have saved SVB?

Published: March 14, 2023, 9:04 p.m.

As the Silicon Valley Bank shock waves echo through the system, the market is asking: shouldn’t we have seen this coming? Integrated risk management has always made sense but it is a dream that requires joined up data, systems, benchmarks, standards and frameworks. Firms, driven to operational efficiency, and regulators, keen to protect the consumers have aligned interests.  Yet we have been talking about the need for this shift since 2017. The 2023 challenge is to find a way to agree the risk framework that is based on code, not mountains of paper. Will SVB be a wakeup call that spurs regulator and regulated to align on what good risk management looks like? In advance of JWG’s 22 March Trading Compliance Seminar we explore what matters in 2023. Register here: https://tc.jwgevents.org/contact-us/