Category: Industry News

The annual Global Risks Report offers a comprehensive view of the challenges shaping our future. The 2025 edition, marking two decades of global risk tracking, highlights the interconnected nature of today’s most pressing issues—from geopolitical tensions and environmental crises to technological vulnerabilities.

The final Basel III standards bring significant innovations, particularly in the area of operational risks and loss data analysis. These reforms not only strengthen the stability of the Swiss financial center, but also promote a modern risk culture and create the basis for sustainable resilience.

The importance of a holistic GRC strategy in the healthcare sector can hardly be overestimated. GRC creates the infrastructural basis that enables hospitals to work safely, efficiently and compliantly. It is a kind of “invisible infrastructure” that forms the foundation for modern, transparent and forward-looking healthcare.

Switzerland’s financial sector is under considerable pressure from an increasingly complex and interconnected risk landscape. The FINMA Risk Monitor 2024 has identified several risks facing financial institutions, from rising cyber threats and geopolitical tensions to ongoing vulnerabilities in the real estate market.

At Swiss GRC, we see firsthand how technology transforms GRC into a business asset. Clients in finance, healthcare, and public sectors leverage our software solutions to enhance security, efficiency, and adaptability within their risk landscapes.

The 2024 FERMA survey highlights a pivotal shift in risk management, with 91% of risk managers now involved in strategic decision-making—moving their role from compliance-focused oversight to an essential driver of business direction.

The Chief Risk Officers Outlook 2024 published by the World Economic Forum paints a clear picture of an increasingly volatile global landscape. Chief Risk Officers (CROs) are facing unprecedented challenges, from economic instability to rapidly evolving cyber threats.

DORA is currently the dominant topic in the industry – as demonstrated by the great response to the BaFin conference “IT supervision in the financial sector: What does DORA mean in practice?”. A key instrument in the practical implementation of DORA is the information register.

“Do you know what is common between economists and pathologists?” This was the question our Behavioural Finance professor asked us in his farewell speech during our graduation ceremony many years ago. Without awaiting any answers, he said: “Economists can always explain everything. What happened, why did it happen and what were the exact causes and reasons?…”