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3. Definitions

No: 44047144 Date(g): 27/12/2022 | Date(h): 4/6/1444

Effective from Jan 01 2023 - Dec 31 2022
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The following terms and phrases used in this document shall have the corresponding meanings unless otherwise stated: 
 
Operational riskthe risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. This definition includes legal risk but excludes strategic and reputational risk.
 
Legal riskincludes, but is not limited to, exposure to fines, penalties, or punitive damages resulting from supervisory actions, as well as private settlements.
 
The standardized approach methodology components 
 
(1) the Business Indicator (BI)
 
a financial-statement-based proxy for operational risk;
 
(2) the Business Indicator Component (BIC)
 
calculated by multiplying the BI by a set of regulatory determined marginal coefficients or percentages; and
 
(3) the Internal Loss Multiplier (ILM)
 
a scaling factor that is based on a bank’s average historical losses and the BIC.
 
Gross lossa loss before recoveries of any type.
 
Net lossthe loss after taking into account the impact of recoveries.
 
Recoveryan independent occurrence, related to the original loss event, separate in time, in which funds or inflows of economic benefits are received from a third party1.
 

1 Examples of recoveries are payments received from insurers, repayments received from perpetrators of fraud, and recoveries of misdirected transfers.