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Operational Risk Data Collection Exercise – 2002

The BIS have recently published the format they are using to
collect operational risk data from banks in their Operational
Risk Data Collection Exercise – 2002. The exercise is described at http://www.bis.org/bcbs/qis/oprdata.htm.

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Report of the IAA’s Working Party on Solvency

The International Actuarial Association produced a report for the International Association of Insurance Supervisors on insurance company
solvency. The approach the working party took was to identify the types of of risks to which insurers are subject, and the approaches used to model those risks. The report contains a classification of
insurance company risks, an overview of the risk assessment process in insurance companies, and more detailed consideration of some individual risk types. It is available at www.actuaries.org/CTTEES_INSREG/Documents/Solvency_Report_EN.pdf.

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Building a framework for operational risk management: the FSAs observations

The FSA published this document in July 2003, as they prepared to implement CP142, the consultation paper on operational risk systems and controls. The documument is the result of discussions the FSA held with 22 firms actively developing risk management systems for operational risk. It describes instances of good practice, and discusses the progress that has been made so far. The main conclusion is that although considerable progress has been made, the industry is still at an early stage of developing operational risk frameworks. The report is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/policy/ps142_2.pdf

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Operational Risk in General Insurance

A working party (of which I was a member) presented a report on operational risk in general insurance to GIRO 2002. The report and slides for the presentation are both available online from my publications page.

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Building the new regulator: Progress report 2

The Financial Services Authority have issued a series of reports outlining their new risk-based regulatory framework. This report, issued in February 2002, describes their risk-based operating framework and what it means for the firms that they regulate. In particular, it includes (as Appendix B) a probability assessment matrix that provides the risk classification system that they use. Note that the FSA is interested only in risks to their statutory objectives, and that these may not be the same as, for example, risks to shareholder value. The report is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/policy/bnr_progress2.pdf.

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CP190: Enhanced capital requirements and individual capital assessments for non-life insurers

Consultation paper 190 from the FSA discusses how capitial requirements will be determined for non-life insurers. It was issued in July 2003, and the consultation period ended on 30 November 2003. The overall effect of the proposals will be to introduce a new risk-based minimum requirement, the ECR (Enhanced Capital Requirement), and the concept of ICG (Individual Capital Guidance) which will take into account both the ECR and the systems and controls that firms have in place. CP190 is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Policy/CP/2003/190.shtml

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Managing Operational Risk, by Douglas G. Hoffman

This is a major tome, giving “20 Firmwide Best Practice Strategies”. Hoffman’s background is in banking, and the book certainly concentrates on that industry. He does make an effort to
extend the range, though. This is an extremely comprehensive book, a bit difficult to make one’s way through at times. It contains many lists of key points, which are made slightly less useful because each
list is so long. Visit the page for this book at Amazon.

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Building the new regulator: Progress report 1

This is the first report in the series issued by the Financial Services Authority. It was published in December 2000, and describes the risks to the FSA’s statutory objectives and the method of assessing the impact of particular risks. It then goes on to consider how the probability of risks can be assessed. In Appendix 1 it provides five case studies of the impact/probability assessment framework, indicating the regulatory relationships that would be likely for various combinations of impact and probability. The report is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/policy/bnr_progress1.pdf.

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CP195: Enhanced capital requirements and individual capital assessments for life insurers

Consultation paper 195 from the FSA discusses how capitial requirements will be determined for non-life insurers. It was issued in August 2003, and the consultation period ended on 30 November 2003. The overall effect of the proposals will be to introduce a new risk-based minimum requirement, the ECR (Enhanced Capital Requirement), and the concept of ICG (Individual Capital Guidance) which will take into account both the ECR and the systems and controls that firms have in place. CP195 is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Policy/CP/2003/195.shtml

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Risk Management, by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark

This is another book written primarily from a banking viewpoint. It has a whole chapter on risk management in nonbank corporations, and mentions the issues in some of the other
chapters. Its treatment of credit risk covers credit rating systems, and distinguishes several different measurement approaches. It has a chapter on operational risk. This book emphasises the need for risk management systems. Visit its page at Amazon.