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Banking Nexus · Industry scope and publisher

Industry scope and publisher

Banking Nexus is an industry platform of The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), a nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industry and one of the three pillar institutions of Nexus Consortiums. A business league works on the common interest of an industry, not the private business of any member. This page sets out the subject community of Banking Nexus, its publisher and the legal limits that apply to everything published on it.

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  1. 01FieldsFinancial stability, Capital markets and investment, Climate and hazards
  2. 02STEM methods5 canonical methods applied
  3. 03Topics10 subject pages
  4. 04Counterparts11 platforms in shared fields
  5. 05PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance

GRA · Established · service level R0

STEM methods
5
Canonical methods this field applies
Topics
10
Subject pages in the field
Counterparts
11
Platforms in shared fields at GCRI, GRF and GRA
Report series
2
Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Banking Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance for financial stability, capital markets and investment, and climate and hazards. Its mandate covers banking risk, resilience, credit, liquidity, operational dependencies and emerging technologies. GRA publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Banking Nexus is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Activity and exposure in Western Europe.

For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with night lights tonight from NASA GIBS, framed on Western Europe; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 2

Activity and exposure, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with night lights tonight from NASA GIBS, framed on Western Europe; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASE · NASA/NOAA VIIRSSources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • GHRSST Level 4 MUR analyses, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; distributed by the NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Context: CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASE. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, and NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC): Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) 2010; Seto, Guneralp and Hutyra 2012, Global Grid of Probabilities of Urban Expansion to 2030; Global Urban Heat Island (UHI) Data Set, 2013.
  • Observed (EO): NASA/NOAA VIIRS (Suomi NPP). We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Sea surface temperature anomaly: GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Oct 2026

04Industry scope

The subject community.

Field

Scope

Banking risk, resilience, credit, liquidity, operational dependencies and emerging technologies.

Community

Who takes part

Bank risk professionals, credit officers, treasury teams, and banking technology and governance specialists.

Outputs

What it publishes

Bank resilience guides, cross-system exposure research and sector briefings.

05Field and frame

Banking Nexus: the field and the rules it is read against.

Banking Nexus is an established GRA community. Its thesis concerns banking risk, resilience, credit, liquidity, operational dependencies and emerging technologies. It serves credit risk officers and collateral valuers, treasury and liquidity managers, operational resilience leads and bank supervisors and macroprudential analysts.

Standard setterInstrument that frames the work of Banking Nexus
Basel Committee on Banking SupervisionBasel Framework, climate principles and the voluntary climate disclosure framework
IASBIFRS 9 expected credit loss
FSBKey Attributes for resolution and nonbank leverage recommendations
06Boundary

What Banking Nexus never discusses or produces.

  • Lending terms, rates or credit appetite, in any Banking Nexus setting.
  • Which borrowers, sectors or regions to finance, in any Banking Nexus setting.
  • Any bank's ratings, capital or portfolio, in any Banking Nexus setting.
  • Deposit or liquidity strategies of a named bank, in any Banking Nexus setting.
07Publisher

A business league, organized for the common interest.

Banks face risks no single institution can measure alone: correlated exposures to the same hazards, dependence on the same technology providers and payment systems, and contagion through funding markets. Banking Nexus brings banking professionals together on these shared, precompetitive questions, with scientists from The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) supplying the hazard and dependency evidence.

GRA publishes Banking Nexus and answers for its content and corrections. Editorial coverage of each topic requires named subject review, references and relevant independent specialist voices. Banking Nexus is an established platform; its existing community and published root are preserved and its activity is recorded as it is verified. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries; membership applications open once terms are adopted, and no fee is charged today.

09Connections

Where the platform sits.

Banking Nexus is part of GRA's industry platforms. GRA's legal form is described on US business league and its limits on regulatory boundaries. Related pages: financial discipline overview, antitrust, independence and financial perimeter and the governance dialogue of The Global Risks Forum (GRF) on Capital Nexus.

10Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Service level R0The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
Basel IIIThe Basel Committee's international framework of capital, leverage and liquidity standards for internationally active banks.
CET1 ratioCommon equity tier 1 capital as a share of risk-weighted assets, the core measure of a bank's loss-absorbing capital.
11Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

12Questions

Questions and answers.

Is Banking Nexus a separate organization?
No. It is an industry platform of GRA, which publishes it.
Can GRA advise my institution?
No. GRA gives no investment, credit or regulatory advice and performs no bespoke work for members. It publishes shared, precompetitive research.
How do I enquire about membership?
Write to membership@globalriskalliance.com or see GRA membership. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Who handles compliance questions?
Write to compliance@globalriskalliance.com. The competition policy is reviewed by counsel before membership opens.
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