Financial Crisis news from FierceComplianceIT
NewsRegulators require better risk disclosure
There's a whole lot of filings pouring into the SEC (SEC news) reporting system, and the responses are starting to reflect the on-going financial crisis. The agency seems to be asking companies for... Read more...
Dodd-Frank and the GRC imperative
You could argue that the birth of the GRC industry occurred when Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox news) was passed back in 2002. Does the passage of Dodd-Frank mean anything at all for GRC? There are several... Read more...
New marketing pitch for GRC: Get religion
When it comes to marketing GRC products, we've gotten pretty accustomed to the standard pitch: the need for a holistic approach that can smash silos, the ability to generate data from GRC and... Read more...
Iceland volcano a timely reminder on redundancy
Where were you when the volcano in Iceland erupted? Were you grounded? Were your European operations grounded with you? Did you lose valuable work hours? To some, the eruption of the volcano and the... Read more...
The hallmarks of a good ERM program
Interest in enterprise risk management software seems to spike around big news--such as the fraud charges filed by the SEC against Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). The financial crisis in general has been a... Read more...
Apologies detract from real financial reform
Do apologies work? It seems that they do, given that many bank executives on the hot seat, not to mention Tiger Woods, have resorted to the tactic. The goal of course is to generates sympathy and... Read more...
Major SEC overhaul underway
The SEC has certainly taken its lumps recently. The financial crisis in general was not kind to the agency, but it was the Bernard Madoff scandal that pushed the agency's reputation deep into the... Read more...
Enduring fight: CFOs vs. CIOs
The rift between the CFO and the CIO is near mythic in many places. It's one of those common flashpoints that almost define the job--kind of like bankers versus traders on Wall Street. There has been... Read more...
ERM for boards and management
At many companies, risk management has edged out compliance as the number one priority when it comes to the GRC function. Many companies have moved down the automation path for many compliance... Read more...
Sarbox sets tone for newly vogue clawbacks
We tend to forget that clawbacks or executive compensation was a part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The provision, however, only applied to funds received by the chief executive officer or chief... Read more...
| Press ReleasesInflation Alert: The U.S. Path to CollapseFORT LEE, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association today released the following inflation alert to its http://inflation.us members: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Read more >> Research and Markets: Wealth Management in South Africa 2010 Sizes the Number of Affluent Individuals in South Africa fromDUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d9e272/wealth_management) has announced the addition of the "Wealth Management in South Africa" report to Read more >> ShareOwners.org Issues Statement on SEC Proxy Access VoteWASHINGTON, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ShareOwners.org (http://www.ShareOwners.org) issued the following statement today: "ShareOwners.org commends the Securities and Exchange Commission for Read more >> Jefferies Expects Global Asset Management M&A Activity to Rebound Driven by the Return of Strategic TransactionsNEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- While global transaction activity for asset managers slumped during the first half of 2010, a growing backlog in deal activity will play out over the next Read more >> SimCorp Dimension Version 4.8 Addresses Changes in Investment Management IndustryNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In line with its semi-annual release schedule, SimCorp now introduces version 4.8 of its straight through processing solution for investment management, SimCorp Dimension. Read more >> |
