Operational Risk
479 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.
Learn the Fundamentals of Managing Liquidity Under US Basel III Webinar
The developments in liquidity management regulations present significant challenges to organizations covered by US Basel III. Watch this webinar, to understand: The key aspects of the U.S. Basel III liquidity regulations. The critical challenges in implementing the liquidity elements of U.S. Basel…
Deriving Greater Enterprise-wide Risk Insight from Stronger Data Quality Management
The main issues associated with data quality in banking demonstrate that data silos continue to be the main cause of data quality issues. The paper outlines best practices banks can leverage to improve data accuracy, quality, and access across the organization.
Adapting Financial Institutions’ Liquidity Risk Management Framework to the New Regulatory Environment
This whitepaper reviews the fundamental changes of Liquidity Risk Management under Basel III. It discusses how institutions can meet the regulatory requirements on liquidity risk management by enhancing their liquidity risk analytics, funds transfer pricing methodologies, liquidity stress testing…
Market Risk Analytics: Where Are We Now?
This report, based on a survey of 31 major banks, explores the current state of market risk analytics across the banking sector. It looks at the progress being made in the implementation of new market risk frameworks and infrastructure and the key challenges facing banks in facilitating these…
Buy-side Collateral Management - Challenges and Opportunities
The current pace of regulatory change can seem overwhelming to many buy-side firms trading Derivatives. The move to central clearing of some OTC products has raised a number of new challenges around the collateral management process that buy-side firms must deal with. This paper considers the…
Enhanced Alpha from Operational Efficiency
Innovative technology is all around us, and hedge funds might well questionits value as a differentiator in today’s highly competitive market. But that does not mean there is nothing to be gained from keeping pace with change – to the contrary, rather than relying on new developments to make…
Lead into Gold: How Smart Cubes Are Poised to Deliver The Fast Track to Enhanced Risk Management and Compliance
Financial institutions everywhere are facing major data management challenges as they strive to meet emerging regulatory requirements. Broad regulations like FINREP, COREP and MiFID II are all placing new reporting demands on banks and other financial firms. At the same time, individual…
How is regulatory stress-testing shaping the future for banks?
Out of the shortcomings exposed in banks’ traditional risk managementprocesses during the recent global financial crisis, comes the critical need for improvement. Although the list of needed repairs is long and growing, one particular high-profile risk management requirement is subject to…
FCA’s Use of Dealing Commission
On 10th July 2014 the FCA issued Discussion Paper 14/31 on the use of dealing commission regime: “Feedback on our thematic supervisory review and policy debate on the market for research”. This Discussion Paper builds on the Consultation Paper CP 13/17: “Consultation on use of dealingcommission…
Solvency II — Setting higher goals for competitive advantage
This white paper focuses on the practicalities of the internal modeling approach to Solvency II for calculating solvency capital (Pillar 1), providing appropriate governance in the calculation process (Pillar 2) and incorporating the model results into business decisions and stakeholder reporting …