Loss data
Op risk modelling for extremes
Part 2: Statistical methods In this second of two articles, Rodney Coleman, of Imperial College London, continues his demonstration of the uncertainty in measuring operational risk from small samples of loss data.
Landesbanken's operational risk management tool
Many German banks lag behind their peers when it comes to operational risk management. The proposed new international bank capital accord, Basel II, which - for the first time - stipulates a separate capital charge for operational risk, has put the topic…
OpVar 4.2 unveiled
New York-based operational risk quantification firm OpVantage - a division of Fitch Risk Management - has launched version 4.2 of its OpVar operational risk product suite. The suite allows users to collect op risk data, analyze loss probabilities, scale…
Practitioner analysis: Reaping the advantages of Basel II
David Stone of Zions Bancorporation describes how the US bank plans to underpin its enterprise-wide risk management by implementing the Basel II accord’s advanced approaches to measuring operational risk.
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,…
Op risk loss exercise gets good response ahead of QIS 3
BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Global banking regulators said there was a good response from banks to the operational loss data collection exercise that the regulators launched in June to help them refine the op risk aspects of the Basel II bank accord aimed at…
Fitch gets OpVar loss database with NetRisk purchase
NEW YORK - Fitch Risk Management, part of rating agency Fitch, said in mid-July it was acquiring NetRisk and its subsidiary OpVantage, both Connecticut-based risk management companies.
Using Bayesian networks to predict op risk
By combining qualitative and quantitative data, Bayesian networks offer the perfect solution to the compelling need for an integrated approach to operational risk management, say Martin Neil and Ed Tranham.
Regulators grow confident about Basel II calendar
Global banking regulators were expected to issue an upbeat statement in mid-July on progress with the controversial Basel II bank accord after several months of uncertainty in which some bankers doubted the accord would ever see the light of day.
Measuring the Unexpected
The events of Sept. 11 brought increased attention and confusion to the practice of managing operational risk.
The Basle II capital accord: op risk proposals in brief
This summary has been updated to include the revisions to the Basle II op risk proposals contained in the Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk issued in September, 2001 and available on the Bank for International Settlements’…
Loss survey supports arguments against capital charges, say fund managers
London - The results of a survey by global banking regulators of banks’ operational loss experience support arguments against using capital charges as the main protection against operational losses in fund management and broker activities. This is the…
Approach with caution
Indicators of operational risk are not for the faint of heart, nor are they necessarily bearers of good news. But used properly and effectively, they can help businesses identify potential losses before they happen.
DrKW and Raft establish new op risk management standard
Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) and Raft International, the component-based software provider to the financial services industry, have jointly developed and deployed Radar, a near real-time global operational risk management…
Good in parts
Tony Blunden welcomes the Basel regulators’ latest thoughts on operational risk, but questions their continued emphasis on the past.
Advanced measurement approaches
The September working paper on operational risk from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision confirmed that global banking regulators are looking at a range of advanced ways of calculating op risk capital charges instead of a single method.
Data trouble
Regulators insist that they want a capital charge on banks’ operational risks. But the plan rests on the ability of banks to collect data and model the risks involved, and there’s a frightening lack of agreement on how to do that.
Basel survey signals focus of discussion paper
The focus of the operational risk discussion document planned by global banking regulators is signalled in a survey seeking information on banks’ losses from such hazards as fraud, computer system failure and trade settlement errors.
Basel discussion document will centre on internal measurement approach
Global banking regulators intend to issue in June or July a special discussion document on operational risk in the context of Basel II, the new capital adequacy accord proposed for large international banks from 2004.
A beginning, not an end...
There's a host of operational risk issues still to be ironed out by the global banking industry and its supervisors. Bank regulator Jeremy Quick considers the key questions.