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Banks make slow progress on risk management

So how's the risk management program faring at your bank? Some may think of risk management (enterprise risk management news) as a mere buzz word. But most would agree that the hype around the term... Read more...

Enterprise risk management and the limits of GRC

GRC software was never envisioned as the only risk application you would ever need. It was always a way to create cohesion among the various governance, risk and compliance silos from an IT... 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...

Sponsored access and risk management

Most people assume that "naked access," the practice by which a sponsored entity enters trade directly on the market without any filtering by the broker-dealer, will soon be banned. That will force... Read more...

Time to converge ERM and IT GRC?

We're accustomed to a lot of marketing talk about the various "stovepipes" and "silos" that exist at companies, and how forward-thinking executives need to find ways to converge it all. If only it... Read more...

Audit committees and risk

The new Securities and Exchange Commission directive requiring companies to describe in their proxy material how risk management duties are distributed among board committees took effect on February... Read more...

New risk management focus: Boards?

Risk management remains a hot buzzword for 2010 (risk management news). And you've got people focused on risk at all levels, from traditional financial areas to the IT level and everything in... Read more...

The state of the GRC industry

So how is the GRC market as a whole doing? Well, you could argue that, based on anecdotal information, it's doing quite well. The big boys continue to add GRC functionality to their suites. More... Read more...

Don't take new audit requirement lightly

Nothing is more painful from the IRS point of view than a corporate audit. They can be really complex and take several years. So it's not surprising that they are asking for help--from the companies... Read more...

Still moving beyond compliance

The industry tends to gravitate to the same marketing points. Right now, we're all accustomed to the rhetoric that formerly stove-piped processes--such as financial compliance, risk management and... Read more...