Table 7 Description and examples of key fields in the constructed database.

From: A cross-institutional database of operational risk external loss events in Chinese banking sector 1986–2023

No.

Key fields

Description

Example

1

Event ID

Unique identifier of the event

1 (The first recorded in the database)

2

Start year

The year the operational risk event started

2014

3

Start month

The month the operational risk event started

5

4

End year

The year the operational risk event ended

2018

5

End month

The month the operational risk event ended

7

6

Loss amount

The actual amount of loss (Unit: 10,000 CNY)

14,000

7

Province occurred

Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and special administrative regions where the event occurred

Sichuan Province

8

City occurred

The city where the event occurred

Chengdu City

9

Bank involved code

The bank where the operational risk event occurs, represented by a code for privacy protection.

1

10

Causal factor

Causes giving rise to the event, including Internal processes, Personnel, Systems, and External events (according to the definition of operational risk).

Personnel

11

Event type

Seven event types classified by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, including Internal fraud, External fraud, Employment practices and workplace safety, Clients, products & business practices, Damage to physical assets, Business disruption and system failures, Execution, delivery & process management.

Internal Fraud

12

Business line

Eight business lines are classified by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, including Corporate finance, Trading & sales, Retail banking, Commercial banking, Payment and settlement, Agency services, Asset management, and Retail brokerage.

Commercial banking

  1. Notes. The categories of Causal factor, Event type, and Business line refer to Basel Accord II.