Manish Aggarwal
Chief Risk Officer, ICICI Bank UK PLC
Manish Aggarwal is the Chief Risk Officer of a UK regulated international bank, with two decades of banking experience across the UK, Europe, and Asia. He specialises in strengthening enterprise wide risk governance, aligning risk frameworks to regulatory expectations and business strategy, and enabling risk calibrated growth. He has a particular interest in operational resilience and third party risk management, where he has led efforts to strengthen controls and streamline processes. Manish provides clear, effective second line challenge to Boards and Executive Committees while fostering a disciplined, no surprises risk culture.
SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY AND DEPENDENCY: FROM LINEAR VENDORS TO INTERCONNECTED ECOSYSTEMS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Understanding how interconnected supply chains, shared infrastructure, and market concentration are creating systemic risk beyond individual vendors
- Analysing how failures cascade across interconnected supply chains, critical services, and shared infrastructure, creating systemic disruption beyond individual vendors
- Applying cross-industry lessons (financial services, tech, manufacturing) to anticipate complex supplier and infrastructure risk scenarios
- Assessing systemic concentration risk arising from reliance on dominant platforms, utilities, and outsourced service providers
- Mapping interdependencies across suppliers, sectors, and geographies to identify hidden vulnerabilities and single points of failure
- Moving from siloed vendor assessments to integrated, ecosystem-wide risk visibility and governance
GEOPOLITICAL DISRUPTION & CONCENTRATION RISK: MANAGING SYSTEMIC EXPOSURE ACROSS NTH-PARTY ECOSYSTEMS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Examining how geopolitical fragmentation and concentration risk amplify systemic exposure across multi-tier third-party ecosystems
- Identifying geopolitical risks across third- and Nth-party ecosystems, including sanctions, trade restrictions, and regional instability
- Managing concentration risk across jurisdictions, critical providers, and globally interconnected services
- Mapping multi-tier dependencies to uncover hidden concentration and systemic exposure across supply chains
- Understanding how geopolitical events propagate through shared infrastructure, cloud providers, and service hubs
- Embedding geopolitical intelligence into monitoring, scenario analysis, and strategic decision-making
SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY AND DEPENDENCY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Systemic risk in interconnected ecosystems
- Recognising how failures cascade across supply chains
- Applying cross-industry lessons to anticipate complex supplier and infrastructure risks
- Assessing systemic risks created by shared infrastructure
- Evaluating interdependencies between suppliers and sectors to uncover hidden vulnerabilities
CONCENTRATION RISK THROUGH THE NTH PARTY LANDSCAPE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing risk propagation beyond direct contracts
- Mapping fourth, fifth and Nth-party dependencies to identify where a single supplier creates a critical concentration point
- Understanding risk propagation across multi-tier supply chains
- Identifying concentration risks within shared cloud infrastructure and service hubs
- Managing accountability and implementing mitigation strategies for risks beyond direct contracts