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on data capture and lack of emphasis (or time) on reporting, analytics and the generation of decision-making insight reinforces the view that risk management is a layer of bureaucracy which adds little or no business value. All of these limitations converge to discourage business engagement in the operational risk

management

process, meaning that the operational risk management agenda is not aligned to the business strategy and certainly does not support the execution of the business strategy. Perhaps, however, the most important impact of inflexible, rigorous, traditional operational risk management tools is that they do not support the emergence of an organisational risk

culture that embeds

management into day-to-day decision-making. Additionally, few things kill a ‘risk-aware’ culture faster than the inability of the operational risk management technology to provide management information that is relevant and timely to business decision- makers. This is particularly true when the risk environment changes and the technology prevents the risk framework from being rapidly adapted to reflect the new environment.

This lack of flexibility and lack of business focus is particularly damaging given the shift in regulatory approach, especially with the creation of the FCA and its Conduct Risk agenda: moving away from a prescriptive, rulebook

The company’s StratexPoint technology is an integrated Strategy Execution and Risk Management solution. The solution is comprehensive in nature but modular in deployment, delivering a high ROI, high user adoption and high levels of assurance to your Board and Regulator(s) that you are operating within appetite.

About StratexSystems StratexSystems is the only software company in the world to provide an integrated, Risk-based Performance solution powered by Microsoft’s SharePoint platform.

based approach to regulation to one which emphasises judgement, business model, practices and culture.

“This philosophical change is important because

in our experience,

At StratexSystems we have developed a technology solution, StratexPoint, which was designed to embed operational risk

when

things go significantly wrong in a firm within our remit, it is not because it hasn’t complied with a set of narrow regulatory rules, but because there is a fundamental flaw in the business model, in the culture or its business practices.” Clive Adamson, Director of Supervision, FCA, November 2013.

Using the FCA as an example, it makes clear that it does not and will not provide a detailed description of how firms should go about meeting their regulatory requirements. Instead, they want to see firms ‘doing the right things’.

management into business

strategy, making risk appetite a central consideration and control mechanism for firms as they execute strategy on a continuous, day-to-day basis.

This focus on business outcomes, from the business model, business strategy and operational level enables firms to develop an approach to operational risk management which is business enabling, focused on creating business value rather than a regulatory-centric approach focused on ticking regulatory boxes.

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