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RiskTAE’s partners comment on the rules UK banks and building societies work to, and on the market for the people who run their risk functions. Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), covers prudential regulation and capital. Benn Pople covers the risk talent market: salaries, hiring trends and who is moving where.
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Co-founder and Managing Director, and a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant. Prudential regulation and capital: Basel 3.1 and the output floor, the strong and simple regime for smaller banks, ICAAP and ILAAP, Pillar 2A and the PRA buffer, operational risk capital, FRTB, stress testing and recovery planning, and risk models.
Co-founder and Managing Director. The risk talent market: salaries and pay trends, who is hiring and who is moving, the skills in short supply, and how banks, insurers and fintechs are building their risk teams. He also comments on executive search for chief risk officers, heads of risk and risk committee chairs, and on interim risk leaders.
Where a story needs a narrower specialist, the partners can put you in touch with practitioners from RiskTAE’s wider bench, among them former chief risk officers, heads of risk and former regulators.
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Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN), Co-founder and Managing Director and a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant, who covers Basel 3.1, the strong and simple regime, ICAAP and ILAAP, Pillar 2A, operational risk capital and FRTB. Email mark.dougherty@risktae.com or call +44 20 3996 9599.
Benn Pople, Co-founder and Managing Director, who leads RiskTAE’s executive search for risk leaders and comments on the risk talent market: salaries, hiring trends, who is moving and the market for chief risk officers. Email benn.pople@risktae.com or call +44 20 3996 9599.
The same working day. For a tight deadline, call +44 20 3996 9599 or +44 7537 159269 and say when you need the comment.
No. We comment on the rules, the market and what we see across it, never on named clients, candidates or the firms we work for.
Insights
Basel 3.1, the PRA's version of the final Basel III reforms, applies to UK banks and building societies from 1 January 2027. It reworks the standardised approaches and phases in an output floor that reaches 72.5% of standardised risk-weighted assets on 1 January 2030.
By Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN) · 7 min read
A chief risk officer runs a bank’s independent risk management function. In the UK the role is a regulated senior management function, SMF4, defined as “responsibility for overall management of the risk controls of a firm,...
By Benn Pople · 7 min read
From 1 January 2027 an ICAAP has to be written on a Basel 3.1 basis. The PRA set this out in PS15/26: ICAAPs signed off by boards in 2026 should include an impact assessment of Basel...
By Mark Dougherty, CPA (CAN) · 8 min readContact
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