Risk & Resilience
Embrace uncertainty. Embed resilience. Enable growth.
This is a time of extraordinary uncertainty. The complexity and compounding nature of disruptions – from macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical shifts, and climate change to regulatory changes, cybersecurity threats, and public health emergencies – has flipped the risk management playbook on its head.
Uncertainty poses risks. Understanding and managing those risks unlocks opportunities – opportunities to explore new markets, capture share from less agile competitors, make strategic acquisitions, and build trust amongst stakeholders. Opportunities to thrive.
Thriving in uncertainty doesn’t happen by accident. It takes resilience. Resilient organizations prepare for the storms. They respond, foresee, and adapt to emerge stronger.
How we help clients
From the board room to the engine room, we equip organizations to boldly embrace uncertainty, embed resilience, and enable growth. We drive impact by combining a holistic view of the risk landscape with deep industry and regulatory expertise. By leveraging proprietary solutions, advanced analytics, and proven change management tools, we partner with clients on strategy, implementation and capability building – and everything in between.
Respond
We equip clients to respond to critical vulnerabilities and disruptions by addressing immediate risks and gaps across all dimensions of risk management.
Foresee
Through data and analytics-driven scenario planning and stress-testing, we partner with clients to build enterprise risk management capabilities, anticipate risks, and identify growth opportunities. We help clients translate these insights into action.
Adapt
We help clients institutionalize resilience and crisis preparedness across the organization. We embed contingencies within long-term strategies designed to unlock sustainable growth.
Featured capabilities
C-Insights
Advanced solutions for customer assistance and credit loss mitigation
Risk Dynamics
Global leader in risk analytics and model governance
Impact stories
Digitizing credit risk trims costs and delights customers
By building an analytics engine to support credit decision-making, the bank cut loan approval times from days to minutes.
Building stress-testing models helps a bank reduce risk and improve capital planning
The bank created a suite of models that provide a product-by-product view of profitability and expected growth, improving the quality and speed of business decisions.
A comprehensive redesign of credit-risk systems and processes
By transforming its credit processes and systems, a leading retail bank lowered its cost of risk to 23 basis points below that of its competitors.
Boosting profitability in collections
By tailoring collection strategies to each customer segment, a bank’s consumer-finance division reversed a growing trend in delinquencies—and posted its most profitable year ever.
Creating a leader in compliance
Redesigned governance structure helps leading investment bank instill compliance throughout organization.
Improving the credit underwriting process
Streamlined credit process results in expected loss reductions of $15M in first year.
Our people
Cristina Catania
Senior Partner, Milan
Co leads the Risk & Resilience Practice, advises financial institutions on strategy, transformation, sustainability and ESG.
Marie-Claude Nadeau
Senior Partner, Bay Area
Co-leads the Risk & Resilience Practice, advises executives on strategy within financial services, technology, and retail.
Akash Lal
Senior Partner, Mumbai
Brings deep expertise in wholesale banking. Works with financial institutions across India, Greater China, and Southeast Asia on strategy, organization, and technology.
Cristián Berner
Partner, Santiago
Leads the Risk & Resilience Practice in Latin America, focusing on risk analytics, model governance, and sustainable business resilience.
Dr. Mazen Ramsay Najjar
Senior Partner, Kuwait
Leads GSI’s Banking, Securities, Insurance and Risk Practices in Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMA).
Anke Raufuss
Senior Partner, Sydney
Leads corporate and investment banking division in Asia, as well as Risk & Resilience in Australia and New Zealand.
Featured insights
Which chief risk officer archetype are you?
May 6, 2025
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to managing risk and resilience. Chief risk officers can benefit from examining their innate operating models—and understanding when they need to change.
Confronting new risk management guidelines for credit spread risk in banking
February 27, 2025
In both the European Union and globally, the new supervisory expectations for credit spread risk in the banking book pose a clear challenge for bank treasury and risk functions.
Tech resilience for healthcare providers: Inaction has a heavy toll
February 18, 2025
Cyberattacks and tech outages at provider organizations have reached an all-time high. To stem the tide, providers need strong plans to prevent, detect, and recover from attacks and disruptions.
Europe’s next cybersecurity hub: What makes Spain a leading contender?
January 30, 2025
In addition to Spain’s economic, cultural, and historical connections to Latin America, its advantages can develop the country into a leading regional cybersecurity powerhouse.
Protecting public funds: The fight against government fraud
December 17, 2024
Fighting fraud that targets the federal government is an opportunity worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Agencies, legislature, and the public could work together to claim some of that back.
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