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.