Over the past year the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has refined its approach to setting minimum capital requirements for operational risk (see “Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk” in ...

Financial institutions are in the business of risk management and reallocation, and they have developed sophisticated risk management systems to carry out these tasks. The basic components of a risk ...

06 October 2005 With the Basle II Revised Framework now very much in the forefront of banks' priorities, it is now a prerequisite that banks demonstrate a sound operational risk management and control ...

e-Finance Trends: Operational risk management in redefined 'e'conomy What is operational risk? We will come across a lot of terminology to define operational risk. The Basel committee on banking ...

Michael Hsu, acting director of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said in a speech Tuesday that regulators are looking at issuing a rule to govern operational risk at the largest banks to ...

As a committed operational risk professional, I cannot help but stare in amazement amidst all the financial ruin and desolation that surrounds us. The hand wringing and the weeping about credit risk, ...

Twenty-three large, internationally active banks reported more than twice as many instances of major operational losses in 2003 than they had two years before, according to a study released by federal ...

Credit risk is defined as the probability that a bank borrower or counterparty will fail to meet their obligations in accordance with agreed terms. The goal of credit risk management is to maximize a ...