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Asset and Liability Management: The Banker’s Guide to Value Creation and Risk Control, Second Edition
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Asset and Liability Management: The Banker’s Guide to Value Creation and Risk Control, Second Edition

by Jean Dermine, Youssef F. Bissada
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 48m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Asset and Liability Management: The Banker’s Guide to Value Creation and Risk Control, Second Edition

Operational risk

Besides a better measure of credit risk, a second major innovation in the Basel II framework is to include a capital charge for operational risk. This refers to the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events. It includes legal risk; that is, potential losses resulting from lawsuits. Here is an example. On 14 May 2001, a trader of an investment bank in London keyed in the wrong number of shares on her trading screen. The mistake meant that a sell order on a basket of shares worth a reported $30m turned into one valued ten times that. The London stock market index, the FTSE 100, fell by 2.2% when the trade was made. To preserve its reputation, the investment ...

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