This is the Banking Risk and Regulation Brief, delivering your risk and regulation news roundup on August 22, 2025.
This week, email is finally being pushed out of the back office. Diederik Geeraerts warns that City banks relying on inboxes to resolve trade failures are heading for operational chaos. With shorter settlement cycles on the horizon, automation is freeing up time — but many firms are still clinging to a system that belongs in 1985.
Around the world, some regulators are getting tougher, not looser. Farah Khalique reports that India is consolidating its rulebook, Bangladesh is liquidating lenders, and China is building financial giants to weather future shocks. Switzerland, still scarred by Credit Suisse, is pushing for stricter capital rules — while the UK continues to delay its Basel rollout.
And in Arizona, a sacred Apache site is testing lenders’ ESG commitments. Francesca Washtell reports on Oak Flat, where mining plans by Rio Tinto and BHP are colliding with indigenous rights. With investors from BlackRock to Norges Bank under scrutiny, the risks for banks include reputation, litigation, and community backlash.
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