1、CANADIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES RISK OUTLOOK SURVEY2026CONTENTSINTRODUCTION 3.THE RISK ENVIRONMENT FACING CANADAS FINANCIAL SECTOR 4.A CLOSER LOOK AT THE TOP RISKS 10DEEP DIVES ON THE TOP FIVE RISKS 11CONCLUSION 173INTRODUCTIONThe Global Risk Institutes tenth annual Canadian Financial Services Risk Outl
2、ook Survey 2026 captures the perspectives of chief risk officers and other senior risk leaders across Canadas financial sector offering a comprehensive perspective on the risks they face over the short-and medium-term,and their views on their organizational readiness.Participants included member org
3、anizations across five distinct segments:Banking&Investment Services Insurance Government&Regulators Pensions and Specialized Financing&Lending Geopolitical/policy risk,macroeconomic risk,and technology/cyber risk consistently rank within the top concerns across all segments and time horizons.Althou
4、gh most respondents expect the risk environment to remain stable or improve modestly over both one-and five-year horizons,none anticipate significant improvement(Figure 2).Despite this cautious outlook,confidence in resilience is strong,with 85%judging both their organization and the Canadian financ
5、ial sector as strong or better,though confidence is notably higher at the organizational level than across the sector as a whole(Figure 5).Taken together,these findings suggest that the central challenge facing risk leaders is less about identifying the next risk and more about governing organizatio
6、ns strategically through an environment where risks are increasingly interdependent,and where volatility and uncertainty have become defining conditions rather than exceptions.“Were dealing with more uncertainty than weve seen in a long time,and its coming from multiple directions at once.”Key Takea