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By Corey Stapleton, Secretary of State

Many of us who have worked in the financial services sector are familiar with the term ‘Black Swan’. In essence, a black swan event is an unpredictable or unforeseen event—typically one with extreme consequences.

The virus called COVID-19, originating in Wuhan, China, is a black swan. It took less than three months to spread around the world, and the World Health Organization (WHO) named it a pandemic just a few days ago.

Everything is going well until it isn’t.

Black swans have a way of disrupting systems in almost unimaginable ways. Worldwide...