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Op risk incidents average over 100 a year among central banks

Financial impact is risk managers’ strongest metric for gauging incidents’ severity

Central banks experienced an average of over 100 operational risk incidents in the past 12 months, the Risk Management Benchmarks 2026 find.

Incidents averaged 111.2 across 31 data providers, with the largest number (1,000) reported in an upper-middle income jurisdiction in the Americas. The median rate of incidents in the sample is 53.

Most of these incidents appear to be relatively minor in nature. The total number of cases classified as “severe” incidents averages 3.8. The range is from zero

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