Course Description:

Many institutions have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on either buying or building operational risk systems. However, the overwhelming majority of business users are unsatisfied with their solutions. This workshop will discuss the opaque nature of operational risk and the challenges such as:

  • Developing an institution wide approach
  • Overcoming silo practices and systems
  • Risk data aggregation
  • The need to ensure strong and well-articulated processes that drive the technology requirements and not the other way around
  • Administration and support needs required for an effective and efficient system
  • The potential external data feeds needed to interact with your solution
  • Communications analysis to ensure availability
  • Different platform architectures
  • The management, board and reporting requirements

This workshop will prepare attendees to make decisions understanding approaches that could make the difference between success and failure. Some of the key topics that will be covered include:

  • Define goals of ORM technology
  • Identify common mistakes - lack of cohesion, user interface, project teams, agreed upon framework methodologies
  • Describe and discuss the ORM elements and how that needs to interact, which include scenario analysis, risk assessment, event management, internal and external data, incident management, issue management, new products capital, materiality and measurements
  • Create the planning process – risk data aggregation, reporting, regulatory requirements
  • Define the key data element and their interactions, workflow
  • Map the organizational preferences – levels of organization, legal entities, scoping, security model, user entitlement reviews, internal and external feeds (FX rates, general ledger, etc.)
  • Discuss the main vendors and their offerings – how to build an RFP
  • Explore pros and cons of buy vs. build
  • Developing an organizational communications plan
  • Effective techniques for building a pilot
  • Keeping up with the framework evolution
  • Reporting metrics
  • Automation


Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the basics of the operational risk elements to better define user requests
  • Gain a full understanding of the challenges of implementing a cross business system with a wide group of stakeholders who usually have adopted different approaches
  • Understand the various system architectures
  • Identify the external data feeds and linkages that are required to support the system’s needs
  • Define the administration model that best suits the organization
  • Understand the data aggregation and board reporting requirements
  • Senior and board committee reporting design and requirements


Who Will Benefit:

  • Financial Officers
  • Risk Officers
  • Internal Auditors
  • Operational Risk Managers
  • Operational Risk Management Personnel
  • Office Staff in Operational Roles
  • Board Members
  • Risk and Audit Committee Chairs and Members
  • Heads of Market, Credit, and Operational Risk
  • Auditors
  • Chief Compliance Officers
  • IT Managers
  • Actuaries
  • Treasurers
  • Bank Regulators and Examiners
  • Payroll Personnel




Course Outline:

Day One (8:30 AM - 4:30 PM) Day Two (8:30 AM - 4:30 PM)

Registration Process: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Session Start Time: 9:00 AM

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Meet Your Instructor

Craig Spielmann
CEO & Founder of RiskTao, LLC

Craig Spielmann is CEO and founder of RiskTao, LLC, which specializes in risk training and advisory services. He has over 30 years of operational risk management, business development, and technology and audit experience gained from working with the world’s top financial institutions (RBS, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Dean Witter, and Merrill Lynch).

Prior to this, Mr. Spielmann was RBS’s global head of operational risk systems and analytics. He was responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight of all RBS operational risk systems and headed up their ORM risk data aggregation initiative. In addition, Mr. Spielmann and his team developed a strong analytical engine (Aggregated Risk Intelligence Dashboard) and automated committee decks and critical reports. He also headed RBS’s operational risk management for North and South America, where he was responsible for driving compliance for the ORM Federal Reserve’s Cease & Desist Order, and 2nd line challenge over the divisions, and for managing regulatory relationships.

Mr. Spielmann designed and implemented major changes to RBS’s compensation program to align with the Federal Reserve’s compensation initiative and Dodd-Frank. He also implemented regional level scenario analysis on major industry exposures such as DDO, foreclosures practices, and a program for model risk management, etc. Additionally, he co-chaired the regional risk committee and was a member of the divisional new product approval committees, IT risk committee and ORM capital and vendor management committees. Mr. Spielmann graduated from Iona College with a double major in history and communications.





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