Introduction to Part I: The origins of non-financial risk management
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Introduction to Part I: The origins of non-financial risk management
The complete history of operational risk regulation (abridged)
Financial institutions and non-financial risk: Learning from the corporate approach
The painful financial side of NFR
“Risk management is about managing risk” and “It’s all about people”: Psychology might be more important than models
The confusion of Babel: What’s in the name NFR – taxonomy
Introduction to Part II: Governance of non-financial risk management
“It’s the culture, stupid”: Risk culture as the key building block of NFR management – and why some banks have come through the Covid-19 pandemic better than others
Do you know who is who? Three lines of defence in the context of NFR
Herding cats? NFR divisions as truly diverse units
“Just do it!”: Partially self-organising governance structures for NFR frameworks
Introduction to Part III: Tools and instruments for non-financial risk management
A risk by any other name: Identification, classification and agendas
Old but gold? Mastering the RCSA despite Covid-19
Biases in scenario analyses and how to mitigate them
When scenarios are not severe enough: Stress testing for non-financial risk
Ending NFR in NFR: From Excel sheets to professional IT systems for NFR management
Breaking up with risk management: Using the power of controls for good not the prevention of evil
Introduction to Part IV: Focus areas of non-financial risk management
It won’t be over after Covid-19: Pandemics and operational resilience
Dealing with IT complexity and innovation: Delivering business resilience and customer outcomes
Protecting the new gold: Information security
Conduct risk and the impact of Covid-19
From lawsuits to models: Compliance risk and financial crime
Others are doing it cheaper: But can they really? Opportunities and risks in outsourcing
Managing reputation and stakeholders
Introduction to Part V: The future of non-financial risk management
ESG risk as a new (and very important) trigger for NFR
Looking into the crystal ball: What will NFR management look like in 2030?
This time will be different: An alternative future of NFR management
Right time, right place: The drive for change in operational and non-financial risk
“Without the past, there is no future” – the origin of that phrase may seem unclear, but there is a lot of truth in it. So, let’s take a look at the past – ie, the origins of non-financial risk. Non-financial risk as a term is fairly new; having conducted some research on where it first appeared, it seems that it was not even banks or other financial services firms that started using it. A more likely explanation is that corporates began to label those risks that are not dealt with by the chief finance officer (as these firms didn’t, and still mostly don’t have, a dedicated chief risk officer) as “non-financial”. Sadly, the term is grossly misleading – as demonstrated in several chapters of this book, the financial damage caused by non-financial risks is huge, and in many cases exceeds the losses incurred by write-down on loans and other financial risk.
Hence, it makes sense to look at what corporates are doing in that domain, often dubbed “enterprise risk management”. Banks and insurance companies tend to be very proud of their level of sophistication in risk management. On the one hand, when looking at the complexity of risk models for financial risks and the vast number of
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