The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
Banking risk management is the discipline of measuring, limiting and governing the risks banks take in lending, funding, trading and operating. It combines credit analysis, treasury and liquidity management, market risk, operational resilience, model risk and governance, under prudential regulation. On Banking Nexus, The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) treats the discipline as shared industry research: how risks reach banks, how banks transmit them onward and what the profession needs to understand them. It is research, not execution.
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The Banking Nexus sector overview covers banking risk, resilience, credit, liquidity, operational dependencies and emerging technologies. It sets out who is in scope, from bank risk professionals and credit officers, how risk reaches the sector and how it travels onward, analysed with stress testing, operational resilience, and credit and liquidity frameworks. GRA builds shared industry understanding and does not advise, rate or assess individual firms.
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| Risk | What it concerns | Core tools |
|---|---|---|
| Credit | Borrowers and counterparties failing to pay | Credit assessment, limits, provisioning, collateral |
| Liquidity and funding | Meeting outflows when funding withdraws | Cash-flow projections, liquid buffers, contingency funding plans |
| Market and interest rate | Losses from price and rate movements | Sensitivity analysis, hedging, limits |
| Operational | Failures of people, processes, systems and third parties | Resilience mapping, controls, incident management |
| Model and governance | Flawed models, weak oversight, poor culture | Validation, board oversight, internal audit |
These categories overlap. Severe events usually combine several, which is why Banking Nexus studies their interaction.
| Pillar | Content | Climate entry point |
|---|---|---|
| Pillar 1 | Minimum capital for credit, market and operational risk | Indirect, through risk weights and collateral valuation |
| Pillar 2 | Supervisory review and the bank's own capital assessment | BCBS 2022 principles; ICAAP scenario analysis |
| Pillar 3 | Market discipline through disclosure | Voluntary BCBS climate framework of June 2025, where adopted |
Because banks fund the economy and run payments, their distress affects people far beyond shareholders. History shows that banking crises tend to produce deep and long-lasting recessions, falls in lending and large fiscal costs. Prudential regulation, deposit protection and resolution regimes exist because of these spillovers.
The risks banks face are changing. Physical climate hazards, nature loss, cyber threats, concentration in technology providers, faster digital deposit flows and the use of AI in credit decisions all alter how and how quickly losses can arise.
Methods and evidence every bank needs and none can build alone.
Evidence is aggregated so that no bank, borrower or customer can be identified.
GRA publishes aggregated, precompetitive research. It assesses no bank and advises no one.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transmission channel | The route by which a shock reaches financial institutions' balance sheets. |
| Basel III | The Basel Committee's international framework of capital, leverage and liquidity standards for internationally active banks. |
| CET1 ratio | Common equity tier 1 capital as a share of risk-weighted assets, the core measure of a bank's loss-absorbing capital. |
| Systemic risk | The risk of disruption to financial services caused by impairment of all or parts of the financial system, with serious consequences for the real economy, as the IMF, FSB and BIS define it. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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