Operational Risk Management - Online

This course introduces the concept of Operational Risk and discusses events that trigger losses in firms due to operational loss events. It covers the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk and highlights various changes in the banking sector that have created operational risk scenarios. The course introduces operational risk aspects in insurance and emphasizes the need to have a well defined scope and process for identification of risk factors in operational risk management. Various methods of estimating potential loss data are illustrated. Forecasting models used in estimating the potential risk factors are described and the course deals with risk analysis as a part of operational risk management.

This course explains how loss prevention is more effective than loss reduction, examines various loss control measures and elaborates on the methods used in loss reduction and how risk avoidance is used as a risk mitigation method. The basics of risk financing and its advantages and disadvantages are presented and insight is given into how a framework enables the management to identify and classify risks and take appropriate action.

This is an online self study course that can be globally accessed 24/7 from any internet enabled computer. Access is for 91 days. Certificates with earned credits will be awarded upon successful completion. También, se ofrece este curso en Español. Llamada para más información.

Available TodayOnlineUSD$350
Instructional Method:
Self-Study
Level: Intermediate

ICB CREDITSICPAS CREDITS
27.7510.5
Operations management staff, IT executives, Operational Risk Managers, Back-Office Managers, Settlement Officers, Internal Auditors, Risk Auditors
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    También, se ofrece este curso en Español. Llamada para más información.
    Introduction to Operational Risk
    This module introduces the concept of Operational Risk. It helps the user to have a broad understanding of:
    • Significance of operational risk
    • Operational risk management programs
    • Addressing operational risk
    • Measuring and modeling operational risk
    Duration: 1 Hour

    Basic concepts
    This module discusses events that trigger losses in firms due to operational loss events: It helps the user understand:
    • Loss events
    • Risk factors, loss types and event/ factor controllability
    • Dependencies between risk factors and events
    • Attribution of loss
    Duration: 1 hour

    Regulatory treatment of Operational Risk under Basel II
    This module covers the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Working Paper on the Regulatory Treatment of Operational Risk. It helps the user understand:
    • Rationale for an operational risk charge
    • Basic indicator approach
    • Standardized approach
    • Advanced measurement approach
    • Analysis of quantitative impact survey result
    • Role of Pillars 2 and 3
    Duration: 1.5 hours

    Operational risk in various banking sectors
    This module highlights various changes in the banking sector that have created operational risk scenarios. It helps the user understand:
    • Spectrum of risks in banking sector
    • Risk synergy in the context of retail banks
    • Structural risk management
    • Accounting policies, costing and pricing models
    • Operational risk in private banking sector
    duration: 1 hour

    Operational risk in insurance
    This module introduces operational risk aspects in insurance. It helps the user understand:
    • Risks exclusive to insurance
    • Regulatory issues and its impact
    • Alternative risk transfer and finite risk
    • Captive insurance companies
    Duration: 1 hour

    Developing objectives and identifying risks
    This module emphasizes the need to have a well defined scope and process for identification of risk factors in operational risk management. It helps the user understand:
    • Risk management agenda and targets
    • Risk management organization and policies
    • Benchmarking internal processes and resources
    • Identifying process and resource risks
    • Identifying risk factors
    • Identifying and categorizing loss events
    Duration: 1.5 hours

    Estimating potential losses - Data
    This module illustrates various methods of estimating potential loss data. It helps the user understand:
    • General measurement techniques
    • Historical analysis
    • Subjective risk assessment
    Duration: 1 hour

    Estimating potential losses - Loss distributions
    This module describes various forecasting models used in estimating the potential risk factors. It helps the user understand:
    • Probability distributions
    • Building a distribution
    • Estimating risk factors
    • Choosing an event distribution
    • Operational Risk database
    Duration: 1 hour

    Analyzing risks
    This module deals with risk analysis as a part of operational risk management. It helps the user understand:
    • Risks aggregation
    • Monte Carlo loss simulation
    • Risk management alternatives
    • Analyzing loss events
    • Analyzing risky processes and resources
    • Analyzing risk factors
    Duration: 1 hour

    Loss prediction and prevention
    This module explains how loss prevention is more effective than loss reduction. It helps the user understand aspects such as:
    • Loss prediction
    • Loss prevention
    • Process reengineering and work restructuring
    • Product redesign and automation
    • Human factors engineering
    • ERP and reliability maintenance
    Duration: 1 hour

    Loss control
    This module examines various loss control measures. It helps the user understand:
    • Diagnostic controls and Inventory management
    • Redundant systems and boundary systems
    • Computer security and physical security management
    • Internal and external audit
    Duration: 1 hour

    Loss reduction and risk avoidance
    This module elaborates on the methods used in loss reduction and how risk avoidance is used as a risk mitigation method. It helps the user understand the following concepts:
    • Legal risk reduction and loss isolation
    • Contingency planning
    • Redundant systems and boundary systems
    • Crisis management
    • Risk avoidance
    • Quality management phases
    • Organizational design, culture and relationship management
    Duration: 1 hour

    Risk financing
    This module presents basics of risk financing and its advantages and disadvantages. It also helps the user understand the following approaches to risk financing:
    • Financial restructuring
    • Asset-Liability Management
    • Corporate diversification
    • Insurance
    • Self-Insurance
    • Hedging using derivatives
    • Contractual risk transfer
    duration: 1 hour

    Measurement framework
    This module gives an insight into how a framework enables the management to identify and classify risks and take appropriate action. It helps the user understand:
    • ORM cycle
    • Framework criteria and assumptions
    • Current framework approaches
    • Measurement process for ORM
    • Delta and EVT methodologies
    Duration: 1 hour

    ORM in practice
    This module analyzes the current operational risk management practices. It helps the user understand the following aspects in an ORM practice:
    • Learning and response loops
    • Guidelines for effective reporting
    • Event reports and Operational profiles
    • Risk reports
    • Evaluating and updating the risk model
    • Implementing bank-wide ORM
    Duration: 1 hour

    Enterprise - wide Risk Management (ERM)
    This module is aimed at signifying the role and importance of an enterprise-wide risk information system. It helps the user understand:
    • Enterprise-wide risk information systems
    • Challenges to ERM
    • Project Management for an ERM system
    Duration: 1 hour

    Basic and causal models
    This module discusses various models in operational risk management. It helps the user understand:
    • Top-down risk models
    • Bottom-up risk models
    • Selecting a risk model
    • Causal models
    Duration: 1 hour

    Legal risk and taxation rules
    This module ascertains the impact of legal risk and taxation rules on an organization and methods of mitigating them. It helps the user understand aspects such as:
    • Issues in contract enforcement
    • Board of directors and shareholder activism
    • Management responsibility for legal risk
    • Transparency
    Duration: 1 hour

    E-banking
    This module discusses the operational risk aspects of electronic banking. It helps the user understand:
    • Security risks in e-banking operations
    • Systems design, implementation, and maintenance flaws
    • Customer misuse of products and service
    Duration: 1 hour

    Systems and software
    This module gives the user an idea of operational risk system and its components. It also helps to understand:
    • Operational risk software
    • Some of the software in the market
    Duration: 1 hour

    Case study - Barings
    This module gives an insight into what lead to the collapse of Barings. It helps the user understand:
    • Overview of the case
    • How the massive losses were incurred
    • Lessons to be drawn from the incident
    Duration: 1 hour

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