The last decades have seen a fast paced expansion in the range and depth of professional financial services, including electronic banking, cash management and liquidity control, as well as the introduction of a wide range of complex derivative products. This development, which regained new strength on a global scale as new economic poles emerge in Eastern Europe, India and China, has led to an increased demand for operational risk management within financial institutions. Recurring financial crises that hit the banking industry in the early years of the twenty-first century, such as the burst of the new economy bubble or the more recent subprime mortgage crisis, have shown the need and rene-wed the demand for integrative risk management concepts, which inclu-de operational risk management within the global financial services industry.

Drawing on years of theoretical and practical experience in the area of banking risk management, the author bridges the gap between theory and implementation to introduce an innovative approach to identifying, measuring, analysing, modelling and managing operational risk within financial institutions.