Operational Risk
480 white papers and resources
Below you will find a collection of operational risk white papers by industry leading experts. This information resource looks at key industry issues and practices, which can be used to aid in the decision-making process and help maintain a competitive advantage. Operational risk is the type risk that a company is exposed to from the execution of business functions. It is a wide concept that has rapidly evolved over the years. It includes risk that arises from the break downs of internal procedures, systems and people, plus external events. Fraud risks, legal risks, physical risk and environmental risks also are encompassed in operational risk.
Fraudsters Love Digital - An Emerging Threat for Every Insurer Going Down a Digitisation Roadmap
This white paper explores the evolving threat of insurance fraud and discusses how organisations can use fraud analytics to help safeguard themselves. The paper further examines the rise of the arm chair fraudster.
Liquidity Risk Innovations for Competitive Advantage - Battling the Build vs. Buy Dilemma
This white paper explores how organisations can enhance liquidity risk management through innovation and examines the build vs buy dilemma.
Cognitive GRC - bringing the value to governance, risk and compliance
This white paper explores the emergence of cognitive GRC platforms and explains how it can help companies out-think risk and anticipate regulation with centralized solutions that engage and empower people all across the business.
Making sense of data to ensure trade reporting accuracy
This white paper emphasizes that now is the time to address the extensive inaccuracies in data reporting to ensure data integrity. It further provides an elegant solution to the problem that leverages existing bilateral reconciliation processes and systems.
The IFRS 9 Impairment Model and its Interaction with the Basel Framework
This white paper explores the growing interaction between risk management and accounting in relation to credit risk modelling approaches, capital ratios, and provisions calculations, as well as data management and governance in preparation for IFRS 9.
Winning the face-off against fraud: How the most effective financial institutions are outthinking the bad guys
This white paper breaks down financial crime and addresses the challenges today’s institutions face in fighting these crimes. It further identifies current capabilities, successes and best practices in controlling financial crime.
The path to compliance: Unwinding the insurance industry’s regulatory requirements
This white paper provides insight from a range of experts on how insurance firms can address the new regulatory landscape, and how they are approaching reporting and risk management in the wider context of current market conditions.
A new way forward: The impact of cognitive technology on the investment management industry
This white paper examines the current adoption level of cognitive computing solutions among investment management firms. It further explores how first-mover organisations are planning to take the next steps towards full implementation.
Maximizing Stress Testing Investment: Strategic Capital Analysis
This white paper focuses on initiatives to enhance regulatory compliance and explores how organisations can use new tools to expand key performance metric forecasting under various economic conditions, to guide and optimize business strategy.
Are Internal Credit Models for Structured Securities Going Away? An Analysis of the Recent Basel Consultative Document
This white paper focuses on the proposed changes and their implications for calculating credit risk capital, as well as the proposal’s integration with Basel’s other recent revisions and upcoming initiatives. The paper also discusses what next steps are expected with regard to this proposal.