Business & Finance Homework Help

1. Evaluating What Went Wrong at Knight Capital: Using the concepts of Operational Risk management, please provide answers to the following questions on the failure at Knight Capital: 

i. Summarize briefly what went wrong at Knight Capital on August 1, 2012.

ii. Identify the root causes of Knight’s loss event (as one or more of the following: failed or inadequate internal process, people, or systems, or external events).

iii. Categorize the loss events into one or more Basel Level 1 Event Types (using Annex 9). 

iv. From the past learnings in this course and current readings/research, identify what framework elements and tools should have been established and/or used to better identify, prioritize, and manage Knight’s Operational Risks. 

2. Applying the Operational Risk concepts to GRUBHUB. Design the following Operational Risk framework elements for GrubHub:

a. Define a risk governance structure for Grubhub

b. Define a Risk Appetite statement for Grubhub

c. Outline 3 risk tolerance statements specific to the problem that you have identified for Grubhub

d. Identify 3 loss events based on the problem that you have identified for Grubhub

e. Outline a risk framework/policy document to mitigate the loss events for Grubhub. (Use the Three LOD model to assign roles and responsibilities)