Risk management — Guidelines
ISO 31000 provides principles, a framework, and a process for managing risk.
What the authority record establishes
ISO 31000 provides principles, a framework, and a process for managing risk.
Voluntary guidance
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
Treasury technology can support risk identification, measurement, treatment, monitoring, communication, and records, while risk appetite and accountable decisions remain organizational.
Affected operating stages
- Scope
- Control Design
- Execution
- Monitoring
- Evidence
- Improvement
Capabilities to examine
Liquidity Scenarios And Stress Analysis
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for liquidity scenarios and stress analysis.
Foreign-Exchange Exposure And Hedge Management
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for foreign-exchange exposure and hedge management.
Interest-Rate Exposure And Hedge Management
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for interest-rate exposure and hedge management.
Commodity Exposure And Hedge Management
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for commodity exposure and hedge management.
Derivatives Lifecycle Valuation And Collateral
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for derivatives lifecycle valuation and collateral.
Counterparty Credit And Market-Risk Controls
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for counterparty credit and market-risk controls.
Policy Limits Approvals And Segregation Of Duties
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for policy limits approvals and segregation of duties.
Audit Trail Control Evidence And Record Retention
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for audit trail control evidence and record retention.
Treasury Reporting Dashboards And Board Analytics
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for treasury reporting dashboards and board analytics.
Affected buyer audiences
- treasury
- finance
- payments
- risk and controls
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
ISO 31000 does not certify treasury software, prescribe a hedge, or establish that a model, limit, or risk treatment is appropriate.