Operational Resilience is no longer the new regulatory game in town, but it is not going away. Unusually however, for a collection of centrally imposed rules, it does make some considerable sense and if it is done right, it benefits clients and firms in equal measure. Additionally, we are seeing the same rules, with barely any deviation, being imposed by regulators across the world. There are clearly not too many ways of skinning this particular cat. The cat analogy unfortunately fails when...

Given the total chaos we have seen in just the first two weeks of 2026; (Venezuela, pub taxation, Tankers, pub taxation, Iran, pub taxation, Greenland, pub taxation, ICE,  pub taxation and Storm Goretti, it would be very tempting to write my first missive of the year by jumping on the bandwagon and warbling on about handling a crisis. At Aldbury after all, we believe we are pretty good at helping firms put their Crisis Management Teams in a strong position to do this. I’m not going to jump on...

Aldbury International was approached by a financial services firm following an FCA review of its Operational Resilience Self-Assessment.