Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX)
The case for scenarios in op risk loss databases
Scenario analysis is gaining in popularity following the crisis and loss data consortia are quick to cater for this renewed interest
Dipo: Operational risk loss database consortiums meet in Rome
Italy’s operational risk loss database organisation, Dipo, invited other consortiums from around the globe to a conference in Rome to discuss their various approaches to collecting external data and to speculate on future changes to their role in op risk…
Webinar -- Managing Op Risks in Crisis
Register to listen to a Webinar from OpRisk & Compliance, held on March 31, in London, featuring Simon Wills from ORX and John Wittaker from Barclays, sponsored by OpenPages.
ORX chooses OpenPages and IBM partnership
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Spanish sensibility
BBVA's global head of operational risk, Jordi Garcia, takes a pragmatic, hands-on approach to managing the Spanish bank's op risk. Duncan Wood talks to this veteran of the industry about the unique quality of Spanish loss data, Basel II and life at the…
Mario Mosse
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Strength in numbers
Data consortiums for loss information are popping up all over the globe. Why are they proving so popular? Duncan Wood reports
The data puddle challenge
The loss event taxonomies currently in use are inadequate. The worst problem is the lack of clarity with regard to the boundary conditions between risk event categories. Tara McLenaghen explores the issues
Event horizon
Rick Cech takes a second look at what makes up operational risk event types, and asks if there is a more advanced way to define them
ABI launches loss event database for insurers
LONDON – A new loss event database for insurance companies was launched at the end of September by the Association of British Insurers (ABI), in conjunction with software firm SAS.
German banks plan op loss data consortium
A number of German public-sector banks will start pooling operational loss data next year, in a bid to create an op risk loss database that could, they say, eventually include banks from other European countries.
ORX database expected early next year
LONDON - The operational risk loss database run by the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX), a consortium formed by 12 international banks to pool their op risk data confidentially, is expected to begin operating around the start of February,…
ORX loss database operational by the end of the year
FRANKFURT, GERMANY - The Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX), a not-for-profit venture to pool op risk loss data resources, expects its operational risk database to be operating by the end of 2002, Fred Peemoeller, chief risk officer,…