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Operational risk

Risk and control self-assessment

RCSA

In French : Auto-évaluation des risques et des contrôles

An exercise in which frontline staff identify their risks, assess control effectiveness and determine residual risk.

Source : BCBS PSMOR, principe 6

Related terms

Key risk indicator

A metric that signals a change in exposure to a risk, ideally before a loss materialises.

Residual risk

The risk remaining after treatment. It must be explicitly accepted by a body with the authority to do so.

Loss data collection

Systematic collection of incidents that caused an operational loss, with amount, cause, business line and event type. Without root cause analysis, collection produces nothing.

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