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28% of bank leaders cite regulatory risk as a top concern, down from 55% a year earlier.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesRegulatory Risk

37% of bank leaders report heightened attention to cybersecurity during regulatory exams, up from 30% in 2025.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesRegulatory OversightBanking

79% of bank CEOs, board members, chief risk officers and senior executives are concerned about fraud.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesBanking FraudRisk Management

54% of banks employ a chief risk officer.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesRisk ManagementBanking

77% of bank leaders are concerned about fraud and scams targeting their employees and organization.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesEmployee RiskBanking Fraud

One-third of bank leaders say they do not understand agentic AI at all.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesAI

79% of board chairs and independent directors say the board reviews and approves the bank’s cybersecurity strategy.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesBanking Cybersecurity StrategyBoard Oversight

47% of directors say the board invited outside experts to speak about cybersecurity trends over the past 12 months.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesBoard EducationBanking Cybersecurity Trends

89% of bank CEOs and technology executives say their bank conducted a tabletop exercise of its cybersecurity incident response plan in the prior 12 months.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesIncident ResponseTabletop Exercises

20% of bank leaders believe their bank or its customers were impacted by fraud involving AI or deepfake media in the prior 18 months.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesDeepfakesAI Fraud

38% of bank leaders believe their primary regulator was understaffed or otherwise underresourced.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesRegulatory OversightBanking

36% of bank leaders cite overreliance on one individual or function as a common gap found in tabletop cybersecurity exercises.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesOperational RiskIncident Response

35% of bank leaders cite internal communications as a common gap found in tabletop cybersecurity exercises.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesCommunicationsIncident Response

84% of bank leaders are concerned about fraud and scams targeting their customers.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesBank FraudFraud

53% of bank leaders believe their bank could take more strategic risk.

5/27/2026
Financial ServicesStrategic RiskBanking

69% of bank CEOs, senior executives and directors said fraud was a top risk for their institution.

3/26/2025
BankFraudRisk

Following the latest stress test, 53% of bank CEOs, senior executives and directors say they adjusted their liquidity plan or policy.

3/26/2025
BankStress testLiquidity plan

Only 19% of bank CEOs, senior executives and directors reduced CRE concentrations in the past year.

3/26/2025
BankCRE

The percentage of bank leaders who cite liquidity management among their top strategic challenges this year fell to 17%, from 32% a year ago.

3/26/2025
BankLiquidity management

More than half of bank CEOs, senior executives and directors focus on staff education and training to combat fraud.

3/26/2025
BankStaff educationTraining

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