Risk & Resilience

Canada has taken another hard look at the shadow economy running through its borders, and the picture is as sobering as ever. In its 2025 National Risk Assessment on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, the government says organized crime groups, fraud schemes, and new twists driven by technology like artificial intelligence remain the most urgent threats to the integrity of the financial system.

‍For years, environment, health, and safety (EHS) programs were treated as the paperwork-heavy cousin of corporate compliance—necessary, yes, but hardly the stuff of boardroom strategy. That perception is quickly eroding. A new EY survey shows that when companies take EHS seriously and invest strategically, they don’t just tick regulatory boxes, they create real, measurable business value.

Australian Energy Regulator (AER) Chair Clare Savage has warned that regulators must be prepared to navigate the twin challenges of speed and complexity as markets transform, urging that risk awareness and compliance discipline remain central to regulatory responses.

The European Banking Authority’s (EBA) first-quarter 2025 Risk Dashboard shows the EU/EEA banking sector holding steady on capital and profitability, but with a notable rise in the cost of risk to its highest level in over three years.

When JPMorgan Chase’s CISO took to the stage earlier this year and called on SaaS providers to “do better” on resilience, it wasn’t just another passing soundbite. It was a rare public signal from one of the most security-mature organizations on the planet — and the timing could not have been sharper.

Flaws in traditional enterprise risk management (ERM) and legacy internal audit (IA) practices aren’t exactly a secret. Risk registers, heat maps, and audits focused solely on internal control deficiencies may look tidy in a board report, but they rarely reflect how risk really works or how organizations actually fail.

On August 1, the European Banking Authority (EBA) dropped the results of its 2025 EU-wide stress test, a formidable what-if scenario designed to see how banks would hold up if the global economy went sideways. And not just a little sideways. We’re talking trade wars, inflationary flare-ups, crashing asset prices, and real estate meltdowns, the financial equivalent of a perfect storm.