About the episode
Listen to this episode of the ORX Operational Risk Podcast to hear the ORX News team cover the top five largest operational risk losses of October 2025, a recent spotlight story covering the global service outage at AWS, and the latest on the FCA’s Motor Finance compensation scheme. The team also cover the top 10 most viewed stories of October 2025 and provide a service update.
Episode resources
Exclusively for ORX News subscribers
ORX News subscribers can read more on the stories and information covered in this episode via the ORX News website:
- Top 10 most viewed loss events – October 2025
- Spotlight story: AWS outage causes widespread disruption to financial and consumer websites and apps
- Deep Dive: AWS outage causes widespread disruption to financial and consumer websites and apps
ORX News subscribers can also read more on the Motor Finance stories on the ORX News website:
- Stellantis provisions GBP 37.1 million over motor finance commissions
- BMW pays and provisions GBP 215.6 million over motor finance commissions
- FCE provisions GBP 61 million over motor finance commissions
- Bank of Ireland provisions EUR 400 million over UK motor finance commissions
- Investec provisions GBP 30 million over motor finance commissions
- Barclays provisions GBP 325 million over motor finance commissions
- Paragon provisions GBP 6.5 million over motor finance commissions
- Santander provisions GBP 295 million over motor finance commissions
- FirstRand pays and provisions ZAR 6.25 billion over UK motor finance commissions
- Secure Trust provisions and pays GBP 21.5 million over motor finance commissions
- Lloyds provisions GBP 1.95 billion over motor finance commissions
- Close Brothers provisions and pays GBP 335.9 million over motor finance commissions
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