This survey was carried out with senior level professionals from Tier 2 banks between January and February 2024. The purpose was to understand the current challenges that those within risk management are facing, as well as the technology they are using and how they are planning for the future. This research focuses on a number of specific areas including sell side risk management business challenges, technology, and risk priorities. Participants were divided into four regions: United Kingdom, North America, Europe (excluding UK) and the Rest of World.
The data was also looked at from a risk side versus technology side comparison, and as such all areas are split to get two simultaneous analyses of the current risk management climate.
This research looks at the future influences and trends for banking risk management systems covering investment, system environment, regulatory influence, effect of AI, and current and future financial and nonfinancial risk priorities.
The study was split into several different sections. The following key areas were examined and analysed:
- Top Challenges For Your Firm
- Top System and Data Hurdles
- Areas of Increased Investment
- Technology investment trends
- Budget Changes
- Top Technology Transformation Areas
- Top Concerns About Internal Technology Expertise
- Current Environment (Cloud/Internal)
- Effect of Future Regulatory Initiatives
- Effect of AI (Including Generative)
- Asset Types Causing Most Concern
- Top Financial Risk Priorities
- Top Non-Financial Risk Priorities
- Top Emerging Risks