Mastering Risk Management: A practical guide to understanding and managing risk

Tony Blunden is an Executive Director of Chase Cooper Limited, a risk management solutions company that provides solutions for enterprise risk including broad risk management approaches such as Sarbanes-Oxley.  He heads its consultancy division and has worked with over 250 international organisations.  During his over 30 years in risk management he has spoken at over 100 international conferences and contributed to a wide variety of publications, all on risk management. He is an Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, the Governance Institute. John Thirlwell has worked in financial services in the City of London, both an executive and non-executive director on banking and insurance boards for over 30 years.  He is currently non-executive Chair of the Board of a consumer credit company and a board adviser on risk management.  He was Chief Risk Officer and a director of an investment bank and was a director of the British Bankers' Association where he was responsible for negotiating risk aspects of the Basel Capital Accord and EU Capital Requirements Directive.  He founded and chaired the BBA's Global Operational Loss Database.

• Part 1: SETTING THE SCENE: what is Risk management? 1. What do we mean by Risk Management? 2. The business Benefits of Risk Management 3. Risk Management and Culture 4. Risk Appetite 5. Implementing a Risk management framework 6. Independent Assurance Part 2 RISK MANAGEMENT TOOLS: what tools do we have to identify, manage and monitor Risk management? 7. Risk management and Risk and Control Assessments 8. Risk management and KRI/KCI 9. Risk management and Events 10. Risk management, Stress testing and Scenarios 11. Risk management and Reporting Part 3: THE PRACTICAL BUSINESS SIDE OF Risk management: what keeps management awake at night? 12. People risk management 13. Reputation risk management 14. Information Security risk management [all data] 15. Cyber risk management [electronic data] 16. Business Survival risk 17. Third party and outsourcing risk management 18. How do you model Risk management? - Questions to ask 19. How do you challenge the model? - Questions to ask