Risk is our business
RiskTAE is a London risk consulting firm for banks and financial services firms in the UK and worldwide. We advise boards and write ICAAPs, ILAAPs and recovery plans, find chief risk officers and interim or fractional CROs, train boards and risk teams on Basel 3.1, and supply the RisKIT prudential models in open Excel.
The whole risk function
A new ICAAP rarely arrives alone. It brings a gap in the team, a model the auditors will question and a board that wants training before it signs. We take the whole brief, so you brief one firm, once.
Risk appetite, policies, governance and a working three lines of defence.
ICAAP, ILAAP, Pillar 2, recovery planning and the move to Basel 3.1.
Capital, liquidity and stress-testing models your auditors can follow.
Board packs, risk MI and regulatory submissions that stand up to challenge.
Hire the chief risk officer, the heads of risk and the team beneath them.
Training for boards, NEDs and risk teams, in-house or under a partner’s brand.
One set of senior people sees the whole picture, from the first scoping call to the regulator’s last question.
Brief us once01 · Risk Advisory
Independent, senior counsel for CROs, CFOs and boards. A second opinion on your ICAAP, challenge before you meet the regulator, a hard look at your risk appetite, preparation for a skilled person review.
The same senior people, hands on. We write the ICAAP and ILAAP, build the framework and implement Basel 3.1, then hand it over so your team can run it next year.
02 · Risk Talent · Executive search
Chief risk officers, global heads of risk and the leaders who report to them, across banking and financial services. We run executive searches, usually retained and exclusive, and specialise in the senior and hard-to-fill roles. When a role cannot wait for a permanent appointment, we supply interim and fractional chief risk officers and heads of risk, and we work alongside in-house talent acquisition teams on the senior roles they want a specialist to run.
One partner owns your search from brief to first day. Every candidate is tested on the technical substance of the role before a CV reaches you, so your shortlist holds people who can do the job as well as they interview.
03 · Risk Education
Courses on capital, liquidity, ICAAP and ILAAP, stress testing, Basel 3.1 and risk governance for boards, NEDs and risk teams, taught by people who have defended the work in front of a regulator.
Designed for your board, NEDs or risk team, using your own framework, models and regulatory history as the case material.
In-house risk training White-labelWe design and teach courses for training providers and conference organisers worldwide, under their name and to their audience.
White-label risk training04 · RisKIT
RisKIT is a suite of pre-built models for capital, liquidity, stress testing and recovery planning, in native Excel with every formula open to your auditors and your regulator. Buy once. Our team configures, implements and supports them wherever you operate.
Why RiskTAE
Four commitments that hold on every mandate, whether it is an ICAAP, a CRO search or a single training day.
A partner leads every mandate, and senior practitioners do the work that matters. The people you meet at the pitch stay on the work.
Our bench includes former chief risk officers and former regulators, and our executive search is led by a partner who has worked only in risk since 2003.
Advice, models and search inform each other, so a capital decision and a hiring decision rest on the same picture.
RisKIT models are plain Excel with open formulas, and our advice comes with its reasoning, so your team can defend it without us.
Regulatory horizon
Dated, sourced and kept current. The full list is in our regulatory tracker.
The PRA’s final Basel 3.1 rules take effect, changing credit, market and operational risk capital and introducing the output floor.
Source: PRA PS1/26, published 20 January 2026
The PRA’s strong and simple capital regime takes effect for the firms that qualify and choose to join it.
Source: PRA PS4/26, published 20 January 2026
The first phase of the senior managers regime review changes the approval process: a criminal record check may be up to six months old at submission, and an updated statement of responsibilities is due within six months of a significant change.
Source: PRA PS12/26, published 22 April 2026
Insights
Written by our practitioners, with sources, dates and worked examples. All articles
A head of non-financial risk leads the second-line oversight of a bank's risks that do not arise from lending, trading or funding: operational risk, operational resilience, third-party and outsourcing risk, technology and cyber risk, and in some banks conduct and model risk. The role challenges the first line and reports on these risks to the CRO and the board.
By Benn Pople · 6 min read
An interim chief risk officer covers the role full time for a fixed period, usually while the permanent CRO is found; a fractional chief risk officer holds the role part time on a continuing basis. Either way the person performs the Chief Risk function, SMF4, and needs PRA approval unless the 12-week rule for short cover by an employee applies.
By Benn Pople · 9 min read
A chief risk officer job description for a UK bank has to do two jobs: describe the role to candidates and match the statement of responsibilities that goes to the PRA with the SMF4 application. This template sets out both, with the Risk Control Part requirements and the prescribed responsibilities to consider for a CRO.
By Benn Pople · 7 min readOur people
Senior practitioners from our bench, who have known and worked with each other for years, do the work, and a partner leads every client relationship.
People who have run the risk function, or a major part of it, and answered for it to a board and a regulator.
People who have sat on the supervisor’s side of the table and know how a regulator reads the work.
Senior people who can step into a risk leadership role at short notice while a permanent search runs.
Modellers, quants and developers who build, validate and support the models behind our work.
Faculty who design and teach courses for boards, risk teams and training providers.
Research, data and analysis behind every engagement and search.
Board papers, course materials and reports that read clearly.
Leadership
Co-founder and Managing Director
A Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant with more than 30 years in financial services and 20 in risk, including interim chief risk officer roles, with work in London, New York and Toronto.
Co-founder and Managing Director
In risk recruitment and executive search since 2003, specialising in the senior and hard-to-fill roles up to chief risk officer and NED.
Talk to us
Twenty minutes with a partner. Tell us what is on your desk and we will tell you straight whether we can help.
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