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Risk Assessment

Status: In-Force
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COMMENTS

  1. Is there any inventory of the institution's tangible and nontangible resources which may be subject to operational risks. These may include the following:
   
  • Physical Assets (i.e. physical plant, systems, real estate, etc)
  • Financial Assets (i.e. cash, securities, negotiable instruments, etc.)
  • Human Assets (i.e. employees, officers, directors, customers, shareholders, vendors and contractors, etc.)
  • Intangible Assets (i.e. reputation, good will; etc.)
  1. Are operational risks with respect to new acquisitions, divestitures, expansions, or downsizing been identified. These may include the following:
  • Physical Assets (i.e. physical plant, systems, real estate, etc.)
  • Financial Assets (i.e. cash securities, negotiable instruments, etc.)
  • Human Assets (i.e. employees, officers, customers, share holders, vendors and contractors, etc.)
  • Intangible Assets (i.e., reputation, goodwill, etc.)
  1. Can the bank identify actual and potential loss exposures and risk events for all products and services currently being offered or proposed for implementation. Such risks may include the following:
Criminal acts including fraud, forgery, robbery, burglary and counterfeiting ?
Direct loss of injury to or sickness of personnel ?
  * Loss or compromise of information / data ?
  * Direct loss of or damage to physical property ?
  * Consequential loss and or loss of use ?
  * Customer Contractual Liability ?
  * Tort and Product Liability ?
  * Statutory and Regulatory Liability (Legal and Regulatory Compliance ) ?
   Political risk and regulatory instability ?
  1. On at least an annual basis, are formal qualitative and quantitative analyses conducted to measure the level of current operational risk?

Does this analyses include.

  * Judgmental risk estimates by senior staff and operational managers based on probable and maximum severity costs of a single occurance and / or aggregate losses in a single year ?
  * Assessment of risk event probabilities by senior managers and operational personnel ?
  * Review of available loss data from other banks institutions both within the Kingdom and internationally ?
  * Maintenance of a data base of incident reports and exposure and loss history for both insured and uninsured losses ?
  * Comparison of past losses and loss ratios to the premium and exposure bases ?
  * Analysis of trends, reporting, and payment patterns for past losses ?
  * Decision and event tree analysis ?
  * Scenario development (including "worse case" analyses) ?
  * Frequency and severity analyses and projections ?
  * Preventive measures in place ?