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Systems Risk

"Systems Risk" is in the position that Operational Risk was a decade ago (pre Basel II) in that everyone knows that Information Technology is a major issue in Financial Services but the industry has not found satisfactory ways of analysing and measuring the associated risks. Many business surveys point to IT being of vital interest to Boards and senior management, but we (the IT profession) keep screwing up - I would argue because, in part, neither the IT function nor business has yet learned how to manage risk.

 

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January 30, 2010

Risk Managers' Haiku

Something bad's happened
We have to add new controls
Oh! Happened again


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* Haiku is a Japanese poetry form in which a concept is encapsulated in 17 sounds/syllables, typically in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 sounds.

See also the Risk Managers' Job Description

Posted by pjmcconnell at January 30, 2010 12:42 AM

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