Operations Risk

Book description

Operations Risk--a form of Operational Risk, is becoming increasingly important as more and more sophisticated products and the use of those products occurs in the financial services industry. Outsourcing, including overseas outsourcing, is changing the structure of firms and particularly operations teams. Thus understanding the existing and the changing risk environment in operations functions and its impact on operational risk is centrally important today. The book focuses on areas such as technology risk, people risk, and settlement risk, examining the dangers that lurk within different organisations. Case studies throughout the book illustrate the way in which risk can become magnified and ultimately become a serious danger to the businesses concerned. The reader is challenged throughout the book to interpret given situations in Operations Risk so as to understand the impact of the risks and devise solutions through a series of exercises included in the relevant chapters. (answers are provided). This “self-test? approach will help reinforce understanding of the detailed material contained throughout the book.

*Offers the knowledge, tools, techniques, and solutions necessary to recognize and evaluate operations risk
*Concise, easy to read format provides practical solutions and techniques that readers can implement tomorrow
*Case studies and "self-test" features ensure practical understanding.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Operations Risk
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 The operational risk universe
    1. Post barings
    2. The influence of BIS
    3. Operational risk management
    4. Types of risk
  7. Chapter 2 Defining operations risk in investment and retail banking
    1. Retail banking
    2. Managing operations risk in retail banking
    3. Types of operations risk affecting retail banks
    4. Customer account errors
    5. Immediate observations
    6. Possible outcomes
    7. Action
    8. Risk impact
    9. Damage limitation and preventative action
    10. Managing other operations risks
    11. Risk in Investment Banking
  8. Chapter 3 Operations risk
    1. Analysing the risk value
    2. Summary of operations risk
    3. Market risk
    4. Management risk
    5. Market or principal risk
    6. Credit or counterparty risk
    7. Operational risk
    8. Other risks
    9. Understanding risk
    10. Operations management
  9. Chapter 4 Managing the risk
    1. How does the business manage operations risk?
    2. Devising a strategy to manage operations risk
    3. Self-assessment techniques
    4. “Risk envelopes”
    5. “Risk waves”
    6. “Risk scoring”
    7. “Fishbone analysis of cause”
    8. Risk volcanoes
    9. Summary
  10. Chapter 5 Understanding a risk event
    1. Pre-event
    2. Time lag
    3. Realisation
    4. Mitigation
    5. Lessons learned
  11. Chapter 6 Workflow and operations risk
    1. People
    2. Management
    3. Analysing risk in the workflow
    4. Analysing workflow
  12. Chapter 7 Risk and regulation
    1. Regulation in respect of custody services
    2. Regulation affecting brokers and fund management companies
    3. Exchange and clearing house regulation
    4. Summary details on regulation
    5. Summary
  13. Chapter 8 Innovative tools to manage people risks
    1. Analysing Hypnotherapy as a tool to reduce operations risk
    2. Hypnotherapy
  14. Chapter 9 Insourcing and outsourcing risk
    1. Guiding principles – Overview
    2. Case study 1: German loan factory
    3. Case study 2: Australian regulator investigates bank outsourcing
    4. Case study 3: Outsourcing unit pricing for managed funds
    5. Case study 4: OCC action against a bank and service provider
    6. Case study 5: Joint examinations of third-party service providers in the United States
    7. Summary
  15. Glossary of risk terminology (1/3)
  16. Glossary of risk terminology (2/3)
  17. Glossary of risk terminology (3/3)
    1. Publications
    2. Useful websites
  18. Appendix 1: Consolidated KYC risk management
    1. Introduction
    2. Global process for managing KYC risks
      1. Customer acceptance policy
      2. Customer identification
      3. Monitoring of accounts and transactions
      4. Consolidated risk management and information sharing
    3. Mixed financial groups
    4. The role of the supervisor
  19. Appendix 2: A collection of excerpts and published operational risk guidelines and recommendations
    1. Derivatives
    2. About the FOA
  20. Appendix 3: Global clearing and settlement – The G30 twenty recommendations
    1. Managing Operational Risk
    2. FX Settlement Risk
    3. Why CLS?
    4. How CLS works
    5. CLS in business
    6. Who is involved
    7. Settlement Members’ customers
    8. CLS group of companies
  21. Appendix 4: ISSA recommendations 2000
    1. International Securities Services Association ISSA
    2. 1. Introduction
      1. 1.1 Objectives of this Report
      2. 1.2 Overview of the Process
      3. 1.3 Relationship Between the ISSA Recommendations and Other Initiatives
    3. 2. Summary and Conclusions (1/3)
    4. 2. Summary and Conclusions (2/3)
    5. 2. Summary and Conclusions (3/3)
    6. 3. Action Plan and Prioritisation (1/2)
    7. 3. Action Plan and Prioritisation (2/2)
    8. Appendix I: Full Wording of the ISSA Recommendations 2000
    9. Appendix II: Summary of Second Network Managers Meeting (1/2)
    10. Appendix II: Summary of Second Network Managers Meeting (2/2)
    11. Appendix III: Contributing and Validating Institutions
  22. Index (1/2)
  23. Index (2/2)

Product information

  • Title: Operations Risk
  • Author(s): David Loader
  • Release date: February 2011
  • Publisher(s): Butterworth-Heinemann
  • ISBN: 9780080469485