Following the three-pillar structure of the Basel II/III framework, the article categorises and surveys 279 academic papers on operational risk in financial institutions, covering the period from 1998 to 2014. In doing so, different lines of both theoretical and empirical directions for research...

On December 2017, the Basel Committee published the "Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms" (also known as Basel IV) that introduces the Standardised Measurement Approach (SMA) to define the Pillar I operational risk capital requirement that is foreseen to entry into force on the 1st of...