Operational risk is being considered as an important risk component for financial institutions as evinced by the large sums of capital that are allocated to mitigate this risk. Therefore, risl measurement is of paramount concern for the purposes of capital allocation, hedging, and new product...

Following the recent global financial crisis, many banks and other businesses in the industrialized countries incurred notably heavy losses. As a consequence, reliable estimation of operational risk (OR) is becoming increasingly important to all internationally active banks and other financial...

The largest US banks and Systemically Important Financial Institutions are required by regulatory mandate to estimate the operational risk capital they must hold using an Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) as defined by the Basel II/III Accords. Most of these institutions use the Loss...