Risk & Resilience

New Zealand’s financial sector is getting a closer look under the hood as regulators seek to understand how well firms can keep running when disruption hits. In a new set of findings, the Financial Markets Authority has pulled together insights from across several corners of the market, offering a clearer picture of how operational resilience is taking shape in practice, and where gaps may still remain.

Organizations today exist within ecosystems defined by volatility, complexity, and interconnectedness. Traditional risk management models, designed for slower and more predictable environments, rely on retrospective analysis and periodic assessment. They tell leaders what went wrong after the fact, but they struggle to foresee emerging vulnerabilities or cascading effects. As data volumes expand and the pace of change accelerates, enterprises require a new approach that shifts risk management from static oversight to continuous foresight. The concept of the digital twin offers that shift; a way to understand, anticipate, and influence organizational risk in real time.

In new guidance published this week, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA makes it clear that digital fraud is no longer a peripheral issue. It has been steadily rising since 2022, fueled in part by the surge in digital banking that took hold during the pandemic and never really slowed down.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets has issued a warning about the state of the global financial environment, arguing that the convergence of economic shocks, geopolitical tensions, and rapid technological change is creating a level of uncertainty that is no longer episodic but structural.

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into capital markets is actively reshaping how trading operates today. But as speed and efficiency increase, so too do the risks. In a new report, AI in Capital Markets: Balancing Innovation and Integrity, the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) makes a clear case that human oversight and accountability must remain firmly embedded in the system.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a federal judge in Arizona to block the state from pursuing criminal and civil enforcement actions against companies operating prediction markets under federal oversight. The request, filed Wednesday, seeks both a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction while a broader legal challenge plays out.

On April 9, the European Commission published two new sets of rules aimed at sharpening transparency and improving how market activity is tracked across the bloc. At the same time, it opened a broader review of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, the body tasked with making sense of that data and spotting when something isn’t right.