1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141049603321

Autore

Young Brendon

Titolo

Operational risk assessment : the commercial imperative of a more forensic and transparent approach / / Brendon Young and Rodney Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-119-20705-3

1-282-93961-0

9786612939617

0-470-74599-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

The Wiley Finance Series ; ; v.563

Disciplina

658.15/5

658.155

Soggetti

Financial risk management

Banks and banking - Risk management

Financial services industry - Risk management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Operational Risk Assessment; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Abbreviations; PART I THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND ITS STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Executive Overview: Responsiveness, Competitive Advantage, and Survival; 1.2 Understanding the Increasingly Complex and Competitive Banking Environment; 1.3 Risk Management and Strategy - Identifying Winners and Losers; 1.4 Capital - Understanding and Assessing its Importance and Limitations; 2 The Importance of Corporate Governance; 2.1 Defining Corporate Governance

2.2 Understanding the Importance of Corporate Governance and Ethics2.3 International Organizations and their Activities; 2.4 The Basel Paper on Corporate Governance for Banks; 2.5 Countries: Their Different Requirements and Experiences; 2.6 Board Structures; 2.7 Shareholder Activism and Extra-Financial Issues; 2.8 Assessing



Governance, Bribery, and Corruption; 2.9 Key Considerations; 2.10 Conclusions; Appendix 2A; 3 Fundamental Assessment; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Fundamental Relationship Between Credit Risk, Market Risk, and Operational Risk; 3.3 External Assessment Frameworks

3.4 Credit Rating Agencies' Approach: The 7 Pillars3.5 Moody's Operational Risk Assessments - Towards a More Forensic Approach; 3.6 The Regulatory Approach - Development of the Arrow Framework; 3.7 Enhanced Analytics; 3.8 Measuring Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty; Appendix 3A; Appendix 3B; 4 An Introduction to Risk and Default Analysis; 4.1 Predicting Soundness; 4.2 Argenti's A-score: Causes of Business Failure; 4.3 Statistical Failure Prediction Models; 4.4 Credit Risk Models; 4.5 Merton's 1974 Model; 4.6 The KMV Model; 4.7 CreditRisk +; 4.8 Portfolio Credit Risk Models

4.9 Internal Operational Risk Models4.10 Commercially Available Operational Risk Systems and Models; 5 Control Risk Self Assessment (CRSA) - A Behavioural Approach to Risk Management; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Advocates; 5.3 Defining Control Risk Self Assessment; 5.4 Benefits and Limitations of a CRSA Approach; 5.5 Residual Risks; 5.6 Methodology; 5.7 Types of Meeting; 5.8 Questionnaires and Weightings; 5.9 Resource Allocation; 5.10 Loss Data; 5.11 Determination of Capital Requirement; 5.12 Developing and Refining the System; 5.13 Achieving and Maintaining Credibility and Appropriateness

5.14 Validation5.15 Auditing; 5.16 The Relationship between Risk Management and Knowledge Management; 5.17 Aetiology of Knowledge Management; 5.18 Avoiding Ossification; 5.19 Managing Risk within Communities of Practice; 5.20 Flexibility and Responsiveness; 5.21 The Limitations of Enforced Best Practice; 5.22 Benchmarking and Stress Testing Human Factors; 5.23 Reasons for Failure; 6 Data and Data Collection; 6.1 The Importance of Data; 6.2 The Regulatory Perspective; 6.3 Sources and Limitations of Data; 6.4 Not All Data will be Recorded

6.5 Differences in Approach Lead to Variations in Capital Requirement

Sommario/riassunto

Operational risk assessmentThe Commercial Imperative of a More Forensic and Transparent Approach Brendon Young and Rodney Coleman "Brendon Young and Rodney Coleman's book is extremely timely. There has never been a greater need for the financial industry to reassess the way it looks at risk. [...] They are right to draw attention to the current widespread practices of risk management, which [...] have allowed risk to become underpriced across the entire industry." Rt Hon John McFall MP, Chairman,House of Commons Treasury Committee Failure of the financia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706208103321

Autore

Huebner Cynthia D.

Titolo

Invasive plants field and reference guide : an ecological perspective of plant invaders of forests and woodlands / / Cynthia D. Huebner with Cassandra Olson and Heather C. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.?] : , : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station : , : Eastern Region : , : Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v pages, 83 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NA-TP ; ; 05-04

Soggetti

Forest plants - East (U.S.)

Invasive plants - East (U.S.)

Forest plants

Invasive plants

Handbooks and manuals.

East United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.