OpRisk Europe: Capitalise on op risk interest, conference told

A current focus on operational risk by senior management should be grasped by op risk teams to make key improvements

Operational risk managers should take full advantage of the current focus on risk management to implement key improvements, a senior industry practitioner told delegates at the OpRisk Europe conference in London yesterday.

"We've got a limited window before things start to improve and operational risk again becomes like an insurance policy – ‘we haven't had a loss in a while, should we really spend on this?'. So we need to get on with it, we need to capitalise on the increased focus on