The recently finalized Basel II Capital Accord requires banks to adopt a procedure to estimate the operational risk capital charge. Under the Advanced Measurement Approaches, that are currently mandated for all large internationally active US banks, require the use of historic operational loss...

The Basel II Capital Accord requires banks to determine the capital charge to account for operational losses. Compound Poisson process with Lognormal losses is suggested for this purpose. The paper examines the impact of possibly censored and/or truncated data on the estimation of loss...