corporate boards news from FierceComplianceIT

Ethical breaches are never easy for directors to deal with, especially when it comes to the CEO, who often is also chairman, that is, their boss. But you have to be willing to act. For better or... Read more...

The Risk Management Association's Global Conference on Operational Risk IV offered an interesting talk on board activity and risk management--which got the attention of the folks at OpenPages, who... Read more...

The G in GRC is perhaps the least marketed aspect of the three. But governance--in a broad sense, not just IT governance--is really at the heart of the entire GRC movement. Just as it was in the... Read more...

Sarbanes-Oxley made life tough on all corporate directors. Now, the recession--and ever-angry shareholders--just might make serving on a board intolerable. Reuters notes the average cash retainer for... Read more...

Many people are calling for reform of corporate boards, especially in the financial services industry. They are certainly easy targets. Some directors may have a point when they complain that there... Read more...

A lot of experts once argued that Sarbanes Oxley would lead to more women being added to corporate boards. The logic was that more boards, reacting to insider board limits, might start looking for... Read more...

It is easy to use Sarbanes-Oxley as a scapegoat for just about everything. Whether the law is responsible for many of the changes to Read more...

Enterprise risk management comes off like a buzzword of interest only to the IT guys. But the truth is that more corporate boards are playing a rising role in ERM and its various implementations.... Read more...

> A common problem among corporate boards is that the best directors are always the most reluctant to join. One publication suggests that the time is now for boards to reassert themselves on... Read more...