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Managing conduct risk during a pandemic

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  • Stubbs, Victoria

    (Chief Risk Officer, The Cambridge Building Society, UK)

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has drastically altered the operating model of almost all financial services firms, and staff are operating through a period of heightened stress. This paper discusses how firms need to ensure they respond rapidly to the changes to the external environment. The paper analyses how, while firms will need to update the risk-management basics of risk and control registers and second line of defence monitoring, the key driver to ensuring that conduct risk is well managed will be culture. It discusses how the Board will play a crucial role in ensuring that the desired customer outcomes are met as well as supporting all staff through this period. Regulators will be challenging firms as to how they have met the expected standards and remained within risk appetite. Culture will be a key factor in ensuring that firms continue to look after the interests of their customers.

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  • Stubbs, Victoria, 2021. "Managing conduct risk during a pandemic," Journal of Financial Compliance, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 4(3), pages 202-209, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:aza:jfc000:y:2021:v:4:i:3:p:202-209
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    Keywords

    conduct risk; pandemic; culture; risk management; board oversight; COVID-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law

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