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Risk Identification Summary

This report examines the deficiencies in traditional risk identification processes within financial institutions and proposes an enhanced framework to better address current regulatory demands, particularly in the context of stress testing and broader risk management. Key findings include:

• Need for Modernization: Existing risk identification processes are insufficient for firm-specific stress testing and identifying core vulnerabilities, partly due to limited comprehensiveness and shallow analysis. U.S. regulators are pushing for more robust processes.

• Comprehensive Risk Coverage: Risk identification must go beyond traditional categories (credit, market, operational, liquidity) to include revenue, expense, and other non-traditional factors. Drivers and interactions between risks (e.g., rising interest rates affecting multiple portfolios) must be explicitly analyzed.

• Role of Organizational Engagement: Senior management and business units must be actively involved to ensure comprehensiveness and link risks to business activities. Broad organizational participation is critical to capture all risks, including strategic and operational ones.

• Risk Assessment Framework: A “likelihood versus severity” framework is recommended to evaluate risks, with emphasis on qualitative metrics alongside quantitative tools. This helps prioritize risks and allocate management attention.

• Documentation and Materiality: A standardized template ensures risks are consistently documented with definitions, drivers, metrics, and materiality assessments. Regular reviews are needed to maintain relevance.

• Challenges: Institutions face hurdles like organizational buy-in, balancing simplicity with thoroughness in risk quantification, and ensuring consistency across decentralized processes. Failure to achieve comprehensiveness risks omitting critical vulnerabilities.

The report concludes that upgrading risk identification is essential for effective risk management and scenario planning, particularly for entities undergoing regulatory scrutiny like Foreign Banking Organizations (FBOs) and stress-tested institutions.