The management of operational risk in the banking industry has undergone significant changes over the last decade due to substantial changes in operational risk environment. Globalization, deregulation, the use of complex financial products and changes in information technology have resulted...

Under the Basel II standards, the Operational Risk (OpRisk) advanced measurement approach is not prescriptive regarding the class of statistical model utilised to undertake capital estimation. It has however become well accepted to utlise a Loss Distributional Approach (LDA) paradigm to model...

Under the Basel II standards, the Operational Risk (OpRisk) advanced measurement approach allows a provision for reduction of capital as a result of insurance mitigation of up to 20%. This paper studies different insurance policies in the context of capital reduction for a range of extreme loss...

Following the Loss Distributional Approach (LDA), this article develops two procedures for simulation of an annual loss distribution for modeling of Operational Risk. First, we provide an overview of the typical compound-process LDA used widely in Operational Risk modeling, before expanding upon...

Operational risk is an important quantitative topic as a result of the Basel II regulatory requirements. Operational risk models need to incorporate internal and external loss data observations in combination with expert opinion surveyed from business specialists. Following the Loss...

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Presentation on fundamentals of Operational Risk Modelling. The core components of a quantitative operational risk modelling framework. Based on references:1. Cruz MG, Peters GW, Shevchenko PV. Fundamental aspects of operational risk and insurance analytics: A handbook of operational risk. John...

"Co-edited by acknowledged experts in the quantification of operational risk, Handbook of Operational Risk conveniently and systematically displays all of the financial engineering topics, theories, applications, and current statistical methodologies that are intrinsic to the subject matter....