INTRODUCTION
United Overseas Bank (UOB) is committed to providing quality products and excellent customer service. Founded in 1935, UOB has a well-established regional presence, particularly in Asia where we have banking subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and China. Datuk Wee Kheng Chiang founded the bank. After 30 years, in 1965, the bank changed its name to United Overseas Bank. Nowadays, the UOB Group has a network of over 500 offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Western Europe and North America. UOB provides a wide range of services for customers, and some of the services are the following: personal financial services, private banking, wealth management, corporate banking and commercial, investment banking, corporate finance, capital market activities, treasury services, futures broking, asset management, venture capital management, insurance and stockbroking services. Moreover, UOB considers the second largest bank in Singapore while DBS is the largest bank in Southeast Asia.
Key business tasks supported
UOB needs some tasks to solve a complex risk puzzle, where UOB needed to calculate multiple risk factors on millions of loans and security instruments to its customers. Also, the key business tasks are quality assurance, delivery of the product, management of operation at sight and oversight business areas and maintaining tasks according to the specified budget and time frame.
KEY BUSINESS USERS supported
UOB gives the
The safety aspect for risk management will evaluate the potential for human loss of life and or injury. The potential for major incident or accident, such as fire, explosion, or spill, including environmental damage. The necessity for security within the company is a highly need aspect of safety that can lead to risk. The revenues aspect for risk management will evaluate the loss of customer base, recovering of capital loss and recognizing uncoverable capital loss, and loss of opportunity in marketing of the product. The necessity for revenue risk management is key. The costs aspect for risk management will evaluate the costs that were incurred due to preventable problems. Also, costs due to increased warehouse space, vendor changes, and discount changes. A significant risk in cost for this company is the cost of legal defense. The legal aspect for risk management will evaluate regulatory compliance failures and actions that could result
The following short case will give you a good idea of how risks surface in business and project planning and what companies do about it. Consider that you are the Risk Manager as you look at this case, as it will be a good exercise for the time when you will be that Risk Manager!
Effective planning & execution of risk assessment procedure in all financial & operating sectors to identify potential risk to organization.
What type of risk assessment is conducted at the business? What systems are in place in order to provide
A community bank is exposed to different types of risks. Hazard or pure risks may or may not result in loss and are, generally, insured, whereas, financial risks are external threats with the potential to affect the bank’s objectives. For the CRO, managing various types of risks is essential for the overall profitability of the bank. To minimize the effect of hazard and financial risks, the CRO will implement ERM or traditional risk management processes to create a program for risk management.
Risk or threat is common and found in various fields of daily life and business. This concept of risk is found in various stages of development and execution of a project. Risks in a project can mean there is a chance that the project will result in total failure, increase of project costs, and an extension in project duration which means a great deal of setbacks for the company. The process of risk management is composed of identifying, assessing, mitigating, and managing the risks of the project. It
Background- In its most basic sense, risk management identifies, allows assessment, and prioritizes risks that are associated and central to an individual project or organization. Risk management allows the organization to be proactive in preventing or mitigating risks, for improving certain processes within the organization, and with the hope of preventing fiscal exposure. However, in almost every organization there are risks individuals are unique and do not always perform at a high level of safety; mechanical or design failures exist, construction projects have supply or labor issues, there are uncertainties in computer or data modification, of course natural disasters, and even deliberate attacks from competitors, etc. Because this is such a common occurrence, national and even international standards have been developed in conjunction with the insurance and regulatory institutions to at least provide basic guidelines to minimize risks risk (International Organization for Standardization, 2009).
UOB has been the market leader in the field of credit and debit card businesses since it was established in Singapore in year 1935. Through its long historic accomplishment, it is now the leading bank in the Asia Pacific Region.
231). It is important to analyze project risk to improve project performance. Therefore as part of this case research and recommendations, an exploration of PMI’s six-stage risk process as outlined in the PMBOK Guide (2008) will be conducted as it relates to risk management alternatives involved with the DIA development with a specific focus on its implementation of an automated area-wide baggage handling system. To evaluate the success of proposed solutions, each stage of the process is presented as an alternative analysis to establish a basic framework of how risk management is approached for this project and the suggested tools utilized to accomplish its overall structure as: (1) risk management planning; (2) risk identification; (3) risk qualification; (4) risk quantification; (5) risk response planning; and (6) risk monitoring and control. Finally detailed recommendations are specified and conclusions drawn that should be implemented with an evaluation process to measure the success of the case review based on the risk analysis presented.
Founded in 1982 in South Africa, Unity Bank was one of the few providers of global shareholder and employee management services and other value added services. Unity held more than 60 million accounts for over 10,000 corporations across twelve countries and five continents, employing 8000 people worldwide and a market capitalization of $2 billion. The M&A integration of Delta with Unity Bank in itself was a great step for Unity Bank.
UBS Group is a worldwide financial advice and solutions provider. One of the main reasons why UBS Group is standing in the leading position in the global financial market is that it embraces the concept of service design and as a result improves its organization’s performance.
risk management operations of the company, to include the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, and the ongoing development and
The business risks for this project could be wasting money on programs that are not very effective, in enhancing employee performance, or
This report is to analyze the recent performance of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), focusing on its private banking business, in order to explore its financial features and products and services that on offer by UBS and past strategy and future prospects of UBS. Besides, there is a covering of the current global market of private banking as well as studying the main features of the market environment and UBS competitors and the recent trends of private banking industry globally.
During the celebration of Ghana’s 50th anniversary in 2007, UT won a Gold Award for contribution to the Social and Economic Development of Ghana. For two years running UT Bank was recognized as the fifth best company in the Ghana Club 100 having won the Best Non-Bank Financial Institution (2008, 2005, 2004 and 2003) by the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) in its Club 100 rankings which represent the top 100 companies in Ghana.