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Reputation Risk

Reputation risk is the possibility that lost trust or negative perception reduces customers, partnerships, market access, or organizational value. Reputation Risk must…

Reserve Audit

A reserve audit examines whether reported reserves exist, are controlled, properly valued, and support specified liabilities or obligations. Reliable results for Reserve…

Residual Risk

Residual risk is the risk remaining after selected controls, mitigations, transfers, or other treatments have been applied and evaluated. Residual Risk must…

Return Fraud

Return fraud abuses merchandise-return processes to obtain refunds, replacements, credits, or value without meeting legitimate return conditions from merchants or platforms. Controls…

Review Fraud

Review Fraud is a fraud or abuse pattern that manipulates ratings or testimonials through fabricated, incentivized, suppressed, purchased, or coordinated customer feedback…

Risk

Risk is the effect of uncertainty on objectives, including the possibility that events or conditions produce harmful or beneficial outcomes. Decision-makers use…

Risk Acceptance

Risk acceptance is an authorized decision to retain a known level of risk without applying additional treatment at that time. A score…

Risk Acceptance Criteria

Risk acceptance criteria are documented conditions that specify when residual risk may be knowingly retained, who has authority to accept it, what…

Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis is a measurable uncertainty or exposure that examines identified risk scenarios to estimate their likelihood, consequences, uncertainty, dependencies, and significance…

Risk Appetite

Risk appetite is the amount and type of risk an organization is willing to pursue or retain while achieving its objectives. Risk…

Risk Assessment

A risk assessment identifies, analyzes, and evaluates risks within a defined scope to support treatment, prioritization, and accountable decisions. Reliable results for…

Risk Asset

A risk asset is an asset whose value or performance is meaningfully exposed to uncertain market, credit, liquidity, or economic conditions. Risk…

Risk Aversion

Risk aversion is a preference for a more certain outcome over a riskier outcome with similar expected economic value. Decision-makers use Risk…

Risk Avoidance

Risk avoidance removes exposure by not starting, discontinuing, or materially redesigning the activity that creates a particular risk. Decision-makers use Risk Avoidance…

Risk Budget

Risk Budget is a measurable uncertainty or exposure that allocates a defined amount of acceptable risk across strategies, business units, products, positions,…

Risk Decline

Risk decline is a decision to reject a customer, transaction, product, or activity because assessed exposure exceeds acceptable conditions. A score for…

Risk Engine

Risk Engine is a measurable uncertainty or exposure that evaluates data and rules to produce decisions, scores, alerts, limits, or required controls…

Risk Event

A risk event is an occurrence or change in circumstances that causes, reveals, or may cause an adverse outcome related to an…

Risk Exposure

Risk exposure is the extent of potential loss or harm associated with a risk scenario before or after considering controls. Risk Exposure…

Risk Factor

A risk factor is a condition, characteristic, or variable associated with the likelihood, impact, or detectability of a risk scenario. Decision-makers use…

Risk Impact

Risk impact is the magnitude and type of consequence that could result if a risk event occurs, including financial, operational, customer, legal,…

Risk Likelihood

Risk likelihood is an estimate of how probable or frequent a risk event is within a defined period and under stated conditions.…