Wholesale banks have come under pressure in both the UK and US to address concerns that weaknesses in operational resilience could mean an operational incident has a significant impact on markets at both a local and global level, with the potential to amplify into market confidence issues. Certainly given the high value / high volume nature of many wholesale banking business services, the potential for financial harm to firms, consumers and wider markets poses a greater challenge for time-critical services such as managing trading books, meeting trade clearing obligations and acting in an agent capacity.
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