Op risk benefits from looking outside the office

Problems from air safety to epidemics are all relevant to bank operational risk managers – either as examples of good practice, or as emerging risks themselves

It's useful every so often to lift your head from your work and take a look around at how the rest of the world is doing. This is particularly true for operational risk managers for two reasons. First, the nature of the job requires a wide view of external threats and developments, both actual and potential. It's an interesting exercise to go through, for example, a daily newspaper and count how