The Dun & Bradstreet Financial Services & Insurance Pulse Survey 2025, built on responses from more than 2,000 senior professionals across five markets (US, UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland), reveals a sector racing to modernize but hamstrung by legacy systems, fragmented data, and intensifying cyber risk. It is a familiar paradox for CISOs: record spending on innovation yet growing unease that resilience isn't keeping pace. Cybersecurity sits at the very top of industry concern, with 79% of f
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Vendor-related risks, from both tech providers and non-tech partners, have always been a concern, but they’re now becoming increasingly apparent in a growing number of cyber insurance claims. While data breaches were once the main concern, we are now seeing more severe first-party losses caused by ransomware attacks and major system outages. These issues are not always the result of a cyberattack, either. Sometimes they come from non-malicious errors, like critical system failures or software
Currently, European Central Bank (ECB) supervisors are focusing on critical issues, ranging from tariffs to cyberattacks and a possible dollar shortage, as they assess potential risks to the region's banking industry, five senior central bank officials said recently. The ECB is examining these risks amid a global trade war and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Chief ECB supervisor Claudia Buch said last week that the central bank would test banks' resilience to geopol
