Navigating Emerging Operational Risk In 2025

In an era where the financial landscape is rapidly evolving, understanding and managing emerging operational risks is crucial. This exclusive webinar brings together two of the industry’s most respected thought leaders to provide you with the insights, frameworks, and strategies you need to navigate the emerging operational risks of 2025 and beyond.

Topic 1: Building Effective Frameworks and Processes for Emerging Operational Risks

Presented by Michael Rasmussen

• Designing a Proactive Emerging Risk Monitoring Framework: Learn how to establish a dynamic framework that stays ahead of emerging operational risks in the financial services industry.
• Implementing Emerging Risk Monitoring Processs: Discover best practices for refining your organization’s risk management process to detect and respond to emerging threats efficiently.
• Leveraging Technology and Data Analytics: Explore how advanced tools and analytics can enhance your ability to monitor and mitigate risks proactively.

Topic 2: Emerging Operational Risk Topics For 2025

Presented by Manoj Kulwal

• Misconduct: Whistleblower protections, holding senior executives accountable for organisational misconduct, harassment, and insider threats.
• Technology Risks: Cyber, ransomware, technology resilience, API security, and quantum computing.
• AI Risks: Deepfakes, AI washing, AI ethics, AI agents replacing human jobs, and AI regulations.
• Third-party Risks: Cloud, software supply chain attacks, outsourcing, geopolitics, and concentration risks. 
• External Fraud: Phishing, pig butchering scam, quishing, social engineering, and business email compromise. 
• ESG & Climate: Greenwashing, greenhushing, increasing frequency & severity of natural disasters, climate related protests, and ESG regulations. 
• Geopolitical: Wars, deglobalisation, populism, shifting global power dynamics, and sanctions. 

GRC 20/20 Speaker

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) – with specific expertise on enterprise GRC strategy and processes supported by robust information and technology architectures.  With 30+ years of experience, Michael helps organizations improve GRC strategy and processes supported by the correct GRC technology architecture. This enables organizations to align GRC with the business and deliver effective, efficient, resilient, and agile capabilities to the organization.  He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor and is noted as the “Father of GRC” — the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester.

RiskSpotlight Speaker

Manoj Kulwal is an international expert in operational risk management with over 20 years of experience delivering frameworks, processes, and IT systems for global financial services firms. He has trained more than 1,000 operational risk professionals through his classroom and online courses and has played a key role in industry initiatives, including the development of the “Certificate in Operational Risk Management” by The Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and the revision of the international risk management standard, ISO 31000. Manoj holds an Executive MBA from Bayes Business School (London, UK) and a Certificate in Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University (USA). As Chief Risk & AI Officer at RiskSpotlight, he leads advancements in operational risk and artificial intelligence.

Webinar Host

RiskSpotlight is an industry leader in emerging risk management solutions, helping organisations worldwide across all lines of defence to anticipate, assess, and mitigate the evolving risks that shape today’s global business environment. Since its inception in 2012 RiskSpotlight have always strived to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions to risk management professionals within financial services. Its founders Simon Wilkins and Manoj Kulwal are at the forefront of driving the effective use of Generative AI in the risk management space to optimise quantity, quality and consistency of output from risk teams.