COVID-19 has challenged the robustness of banks’ model risk management and EUC policies. In a context where market behaviors are uncertain and changing rapidly, banks need to adapt their approach to model risk management in order to keep business running as usual, whilst maintaining the quality of their pre-pandemic controls.
In Europe, the US Federal Reserve (FED) and the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management (SR 11-7) is accepted as the global standard for the application of model risk management (MRM).
In Europe, the US Federal Reserve (FED) and the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management (SR 11-7) is accepted as the global standard for the application of model risk management (MRM).
Within the asset management industry, the recent rise in pure passive investing, based on traditional cap-weighted indices, is set to slow down in the near-future as more investors seek to diversify their portfolios while earning cheap alpha returns at near-beta fees.
One of the most difficult challenges companies face today is how to be more flexible and adaptive in a dynamic business environment. ‘Speed to market’ demands identifying and capitalizing on opportunities as soon as they appear and has become a major driver for the adoption of DevOps in the financial market industry. These changes have paved the way for new design approaches such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) based on automated configuration and provisioning.
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