Operational Risk & Regulation - Vol 8 No 8
Articles in this issue
Korean banks to cut ATM limits to fight phishing scams
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
SEC investigates dow jones/bank of east asia board member
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
PNC to acquire loan-fraud-stricken Sterling Financial
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
FSA begins action against irresponsible mortgage lenders
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
How operational risk protocols can forestall disaster
Could the subprime mortgage crisis – now estimated to have cost between $50 billion and $100 billion – be the opportunity that the discipline of operational risk has been waiting for?
Moody's sued over inaccurate subprime-backed bond ratings
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
The risk information challenge: Bringing technology to bear
A roundtable discussion hosted by OpRisk&Compliance and sponsored by BearingPoint explored the difficulties around obtaining robust risk information and disseminating intelligence back into the organisation. Moderated by Ellen Davis
UK banks are settling cases out of court
LOSSES & LAWSUITS
Daws, Haggerty, Sants, Van Ness
CHANGING HATS
Standing on the threshold
A 'one distribution fits all' approach is not the best option for op risk models. Carsten Steinhoff and Rainer Baule explain why a tailor-made model is therefore vital to the accuracy of loss distribution models
Brazil looks to controls
New legislation in Brazil on banking systems and controls has triggered a flood of sales from large accountancy firms and specialist service providers. John Rumsey looks at the new rules and how Brazilian banks are responding
The forensic approach
PROFILE: SEBASTIAN FRITZ-MORGENTHAL
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
Keeping the wheels turning
When confronted with business continuity issues, energy giant E.ON used to turn to a printed manual. Now it has introduced a constantly evolving system to deal with BCP challenges. Duncan Wood investigates
