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.
Stress Testing: Putting the Pieces Together to Solve an Increasingly Intricate Puzzle
The global financial crisis and the aftermath that continues to unfold have created a justifiable obsession with stress among bankers and supervisors. The sharper focus has made stress testing a key component of the evolving global regulatory framework covering risk control and capital discipline.
The De-Risking Dilemma
Wholesale de-risking by financial institutions may seem like a viable compliance strategy when dealing with certain customers, but in the long-term may cause more harm than good.
The ideal reference data utility
This video provides an insight into a recent survey conducted in August 2015 by WatersTechnology and sponsored by SmartStream that polled reference data operations professionals about the ideal utility. The survey explored issues such as how organizations choose a reference data utility.
Strategies for migration to the cloud in financial services
This white paper explores the current state of public cloud adoption by the financial services industry, the technology challenges they face over the next few years and suggests some strategies for navigating a path through public, private and hybrid cloud.
Political corruption and the assessment of politically exposed persons
This whitepaper is designed to clarify the due diligence obligations of financial institutions and other entities, challenging assumptions about Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and how they should be treated.
IFRS 9 in Asia-Pacific: The road to compliance – is there still time?
Since the beginning of the year, financial institutions, as a sector, have shifted focus to the different requirements for IFRS 9. In Asia-Pacific (APAC), however, unlike Europe’s well synchronized journey to IFRS 9 compliance, Asian countries are taking many different roads to compliance.
Chartis RiskTech Quadrant®: Enterprise GRC Solutions 2015
Business process automation capabilities provide real-time event escalation, automated risk processes,and streamlined remediation of issues and action items. Loss-event data collection allows risk managers to track loss incidents and near misses, record the amounts, and determine root causes.
Supporting European Internet Payment Security Guidelines
While many PSPs have implemented numerous fraud prevention technologies and approaches, they may need additional capabilities in risk analysis, malware protection, and authentication to meet the Internet payment security guidance set forth by the ECB and EBA.
Staying ahead of threats with global threat intelligence and automated protection
In this whitepaper, you’ll learn why global threat intelligence ismore important than ever in the fight against web fraud, and how this intelligence can be used to deliver automated threat protection to financial institutions.
Wholesale banking: Challenges in automating commercial credit risk management
Default rates on commercial credit facilities are at their highest rate in almost two decades, and automation is an effective tool to help banks improve transparency, enhance management control and increase operational effectiveness.