1 Introduction -- 2. Financial Institutions : A Regulation review through the Risk Measurement prism -- 3. The Traditional Risk measures -- 4. Univariate and Multivariate Distributions -- 5. Extensions for Risk Measures: Univariate and Multivariate Approaches -- 6. Risks Measures and Dynamics --...

According to the last proposals of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, banks or insurance companies under the advanced measurement approach (AMA) must use four different sources of information to assess their operational risk capital requirement. The fourth includes ’business...

The advanced measurement approach requires financial institutions to develop internal models to evaluate regulatory capital. Traditionally, the loss distribution approach (LDA) is used, mixing frequencies and severities to build a loss distribution function (LDF). This distribution represents...