Developments in IT and e-commerce, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, and increased outsourcing all suggest that operational risk exposures are substantialand growing. In recent years, bankers and financial professions have recognizedthe crucial and growing importance of operational risk management, and thefield is currently undergoing a surge of innovation and development. In thisauthoritative, up-to-date book, "Operational Risk," leading operational riskmanagement expert Carol Alexander brings together contributions from theworld's leading experts to identify today's best practices for measuring andmanaging operational risks, and assessing them in the broader context of allrisk.