ECB has pointed pointed out the Supervisory priorities and risk assessment for 2022-2024.
In particular, these concern:
- Deficiencies in credit risk management frameworks
- Exposures to COVID-19 vulnerable sectors, including commercial real estate
- Exposures to leveraged finance
- Sensitivities to shocks in interest rates and credit spreads
- Deficiencies in banks’ digital transformation strategies
- Deficiencies in management bodies’ steering capabilities
- Exposure to climate-related and environmental risks
- Exposures to counterparty credit risk, especially towards non-bank financial institutions
- Deficiencies in IT outsourcing and cyber resilience
In the report, the Authority identifies a number of crucial risks:
- environmental risks;
- cyber risk;
- risks arising from the ongoing pandemic.