Risk management in finance : six sigma and other next-generation techniques / Anthony Tarantino, Deborah Cernauskas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Data governance in financial risk management -- Information risk and data quality management -- Total quality management using lean six sigma -- Reducing risk to financial operations through information technology and infrastructure risk management -- An operational risk management framework for all organizations -- Financial risk management in Asia -- Doing business in Latin America : lessons learned and best practices for the protection of foreign investors -- Mitigating risk exposure in transitioning to the IFRS -- Quantitative operational risk management methods -- Statistical process control integrated with engineering process control -- Business process management and lean six sigma : a next-generation technique to improve financial risk management -- Bayesian networks for root cause analysis -- Analytics : secrets to deriving business value and insights out of information -- Embedded predictive analytics : transforming risk management from review function to competitive advantage -- Reducing the financial risks in litigation and legal discovery -- The circle of trust -- Reducing liability risk through best environmental practices -- Beyond segregation of duties : next-generation techniques in evaluating user access control risks -- Transaction-based cross-enterprise risk management -- Throughput accounting -- Environment consistency confidence : scientific method in financial risk management -- Quality in the front office : reducing process variation in trading firms -- The root cause of the global financial crisis and corporate board reforms to prevent future failures in risk management.

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This new book helps professionals in the financial sector implement risk management processes, shows organizations how to enable data driven decision making, and provides an introduction to quality control methods such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management (TQM). Examples and real-world case studies are included throughout. Dr. Anthony Tarantino (San Jose, CA) is currently with IBM's Governance, Risk, and Compliance Center of Competence. Dr. Deborah Cernauskas (Downers Grove, IL) is a risk management consultant for IBM.

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