Welcome
Attend this buy side-focused Workshop on Monday, July 28, 2008, and learn how to manage operational risk in today’s environment. We invite you to discuss, with your industry peers, how firms define operational risk, what type of operational risk management practices they employ and ways to quantify ops risk through metrics. Our esteemed Luncheon speaker, Michael Walsh from Societe Generale will discuss his views on the rogue trader incident, what went wrong and what kind of controls have since been put in place. The Workshop will include a panel discussing risks associated new products and strategies. There will also be a panel on data, including discussion on data feeds, security set-ups, trading related data and audits/controls related to data. Other topics covered during this one day event on operational risk are discussing how to reduce ops risk via vendor management and outsourcing.