Estimation of economic capital of a financial institution requires modeling of operational losses of the business units of the organization. Operational losses of the financial institution are usually represented as an aggregate sum of the losses incurred by the operational events of the business units. Simulation of these events requires the introduction of a co-dependence structure for a more...

This article discusses the management process of operational risk in financial institutions. The authors summarize the difficulties associated with the applicability of traditional risk management means to operational risk and introduce the Near-Miss management concept as a potential tool for the banking industry. INTRODUCTION Over the last decades, both the banking industry and regulatory bodi...

AND KEYWORDS Abstract In 2004, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision defined Operational Risk (OR) as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. After publication of the new capital accord containing this dfinition, statistical properties of OR losses have attracted considerable attention in the financial industry si...

To quantify the operational risk capital charge under the current regulatory framework for banking supervision, referred to as Basel II, many banks adopt the Loss Distribution Approach. There are many modeling issues that should be resolved to use the approach in practice. In this paper we review the quantitative methods suggested in literature for implementation of the approach. In particular,...

Bird strike prevention in civil aviation has traditionally focused on the airport perimeter. Since risk of especially damaging bird strikes outside boundaries is rising, this paper investigates safety potential operational involving pilots and controllers. In such a concept, controllers would be equipped with advisory system, allowing them to delay departures which are most vulnerable consequen...

The proposed New Accord (Basel II) established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision calls for an explicit treatment of operational risk. Banks are required to demonstrate their ability to capture severe tail loss events. Value at risk is a risk measure that could be used to derive the necessary regulatory capital. Yet operational loss data typically exhibit irregularities which complic...