In their quest to assign capital appropriately, banks need the ability to compare two products in a way that objectively ascertains which is operationally riskier and by how much. Perceptions of changes in these risks can be used to predict future risk. Enter the prime metric to save the...

Banks are often smug about their management of risk. Smugness may well be justified for market and credit risks, but banks can learn much from industry about managing operational risk. In order to manage operational risk, industry has evolved enterprise risk/reward management systems which...