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Bank Risk Identification: The Complete Methodology
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16 chapters covering the full methodology, from foundations to lessons from 179 real bank failures.
Ch 1: Why Banks Fail at Risk Identification
Ch 2: The Foundations: Standards and Frameworks
Ch 3: Governance: Who Owns What
Ch 4: The Risk Taxonomy
Ch 5: Setting the Context: External, Internal, and Risk Culture
Ch 6: Top-Down Identification: Workshops, SWIFT, and Delphi
Ch 7: Bottom-Up Identification: Templates, RCSA, and Specialist Processes
Ch 8: Reconciliation and the Enterprise Portfolio View
Ch 9: Assessment: Scoring, Multi-Dimensional Impact, and Data Quality
Ch 10: Risk Interaction: Bow-Ties, Matrices, and Concentration
Ch 11: Documentation: The Living Risk Inventory
Ch 12: Integration: Capital Planning, Strategy, and the Board
Ch 13: The Ongoing Cycle: Refresh, Events, and Audit
Ch 14: Technology: AI, ML, and Data Analytics
Ch 15: The Regulatory Landscape
Ch 16: Lessons from 179 Bank Failures
Why Free?
Risk identification is a process that every bank needs but very few have. Putting this behind a paywall means fewer banks adopt a rigorous approach. We'd rather every bank in the world used this methodology and a few of them called us when they needed help implementing it.
Building or fixing your process. The toolkit gives you the complete methodology, every template, and the AI tools to implement it.
You need a framework that meets the same regulatory standard as the global banks, without the global bank budget. Start here.
You advise banks and need a methodology to deliver. The toolkit gives you the complete framework, templates, and regulatory mapping to run engagements.
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Three step-by-step operational playbooks: building the process from scratch (30 weeks), running the annual cycle (12 weeks), and executing quarterly re-identification (10 days). Team sizes, timelines, decision gates, deliverables.
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