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.
Special report: Unauthorised trading
Download this special report from Operational Risk & Regulation to find out why the risk of unauthorised trading grows from cultural and control problems and what can be learned from UBS’s $2.3 billion rogue trading loss uncovered in 2011. Read also an interview with Neil Roth, New York-based head…
Operational challenges facing investment managers in 2015
In this white paper, we discuss the industry challenges uncovered by this research, including: The heavy impact of regulation on investment managers– Managing regulatory reporting and compliance is taking up considerable time and effort. As a result, less time is available to innovate and respond…
Emerging Themes 2015 Another turbulent year for financial regulation
2015 is set to be another turbulent year for the financial services industry, especially for those working in UK banks. Few would disagree that there needs to be a significant improvement in banking standards or that bankers should be remunerated in a way that incentivises good behaviour and does…
OpRisk & Regulation: GRC Special Report
Within this special report CoreStream offer a set of considerations when implementing or refining a GRC practice (pages 4 and 5) and Oracle discuss risk/reward and big data and how it can benefit the Governance Risk and Compliance process (pages 10 and 11).
Expectations of Risk Management Outpacing Capabilities – It’s Time For Action
Risk management is at the top of the global executive agenda as companies face an array of threats that grow more complexby the day. This white paper looks at why risk management capability are not advancing fast enough at most companies.
Introducing an Advanced CTRM Solution for Global Energy and Commodity Trading
We combined a market-leading, proprietary provider of news, weather and marketing analysis with a SaaS solution for the energy and commodity trading sectors to create a web-based, multi-commodity integrated risk management solution that will transform the way you do business. This resulted in a…
Legal Risk Benchmarking Survey: Results and Analysis
In 2003 the Basle Capital Accord set the challenge to Financial Institutions: to create systems and controls that will contribute to the management of ‘the legal aspects of operational risk’ (legal risk). But although Financial Services dominate this area, legal risk is an issue across all sectors…
Meeting FFIEC guidance and cutting costs with automated fraud prevention
This white paper will discuss how organizations can achieve effective and sustainable online banking fraud prevention in accordance with FFIEC guidelines using the IBM Security cybercrime prevention architecture.
Holistic fraud prevention: transforming the customers’ experience
Financial institutions are on a perpetual quest to improvecustomer engagement to drive increased transactions, account balances, loyalty, and ultimately profitability. Banks found that online banking fulfills this objective; online banking customers (especially online bill-pay customers) have…
The Legal Risk Challenge Widens
In-house counsels tasked with managing legal risk have interesting times ahead. The new European Banking Authority rules may strain resources, and force a review of legal-risk categories and risk models.