System and method for assessing operational risk employing market-based information processing

1. A method of assessing operational risk, the method comprising:

defining a participant set that includes a plurality of members;

identifying a set of initial risk sources;

assigning risk certificates for each of the initial risk sources to each of the plurality of members of the participant set;

defining vectors of metrics assigned to each of the initial risk sources;

trading the risk certificates by a computer based interactive trading system among the plurality of members of the participant set; and

establishing market prices that correspond to a level of risk associated with each of the initial risk sources.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: defining risk evaluation functions for each of the initial risk sources.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein trading the risk certificates includes buying certificates and selling certificates.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein buying certificates includes posting a buying interest to an interactive trading system.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein selling certificates includes posting a selling interest to an interactive trading system.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein trading the risk certificates includes direct negotiation between individual ones of the plurality of members of the participant set.

7. A system for assessing operational risk comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU), said CPU being interconnected functionally via a system bus to:

an input/output (I/O) adapter connecting to at least one of a removable data storage device, a program storage device, and a mass data storage device;

a user interface adapter connecting to one or more computer input devices;

a display adapter connecting to a display device; and

at least one non-transitory memory device thereupon stored a set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to:

receive a participant set including a plurality of members;

request a list of initial risk sources;

assign risk certificates to each of the plurality of members of the participant set;

define vectors of metrics assigned to each of the initial risk sources;

trade the risk certificates among the plurality of members of the participant set; and

establish market prices that correspond to a level of risk associated with each of the initial risk sources.

8. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate an ask table to facilitate buying certificates.

9. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate a bid table to facilitate selling certificates.

10. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate an information view, the information view including at least one of metrics used to calculate risk of the initial risk source, ownership of the initial risk source and number and price of certificates issued per initial risk source.

11. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate an account view, the account view including at least one of an amount of available funds for buying new certificates for each of the plurality of members and a list of all certificates owned by each of the plurality of members.

12. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate an analysis view, the analysis view listing current and historic market prices of all risk certificates.

13. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the set of instructions which, when executed by said CPU, causes said system to: generate a trading view, the trading view including the environment for trading the certificates.

14. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

receive a participant set including a plurality of members;

request a list of initial risk sources;

assign risk certificates to each of the plurality of members of the participant set;

define vectors of metrics assigned to each of the initial risk sources;

trade the risk certificates among the plurality of members of the participant set; and

establish market prices that correspond to a level of risk associated with each of the initial risk sources.

15. The computer program product according to claim 14 , the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: generate an ask table to facilitate buying certificates.

16. The computer program product according to claim 14 , the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: generate a bid table to facilitate selling certificates.

17. The computer program product according to claim 14 , the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: generate an information view, the information view including at least one of metrics used to calculate risk of the initial risk source, ownership of the initial risk source and number and price of certificates issued per initial risk source.

18. The computer program product according to claim 14 , the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: generate an account view, the account view including at least one of an amount of available funds for buying new certificates for each of the plurality of members and a list of all certificates owned by each of the plurality of members.

19. The computer program product according to claim 14 , the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: generate an analysis view, the analysis view listing current and historic market prices of all risk certificates.