Patent ID: 8121937

Claim:
A processor implemented method for managing risk related to the Gaming Industry, the method comprising: indicating in a computer system that a risk subject is a Gaming Industry entity according to the entity's status comprising at least one of: a provider of gambling activities, a gambling facility, a gambling facility operator, an employee of a gambling facility operator, and a provider of services outsourced from a gambling facility operator; receiving into the computer system Gaming Industry related informational artifacts with data associated with reputational risk, legal risk, regulatory risk, and risk related to monetary costs to defend an adverse legal position; receiving into the computer system data descriptive of a Financial Transaction wherein the data received comprises identification data for the Gaming Industry entity associated with the Financial Transaction; associating by a processor at least one informational artifact related to the Gaming Industry entity associated with the Financial Transaction and reputational risk, legal risk, regulatory risk, and risk related to monetary costs to defend an adverse legal position with the Gaming Industry entity associated with the Financial Transaction; generating via the processor a risk quotient comprising a quantitative value of an amount of Gaming Industry related Risk, wherein calculating the risk quotient criteria comprises a processor-determined value through: associating a numerical weight with each of a plurality of risk variables; associating one or more of the risk variables with the data descriptive of details of a Financial Transaction; determining a numerical value based upon the content of the data descriptive of details of a Financial Transaction associated with the one or more risk variables; and multiplying the numerical value based upon the content by the numerical weight associated with each of the risk variables associated with the data descriptive of details of a Financial Transaction; and generating via the processor a report comprising data descriptive of the informational artifacts associated with the Gaming Industry entity associated with the Financial Transaction.