Financial Risk Management

Risk management is a hot-button issue right now, the type that requires canned responses--duly vetted by the PR and IR folks--from all top executives. While many executives speak eloquently about the... Read more...

When it comes to a company's risk management practices, some corporate governance experts believe that boards should play a greater role. It would be hard for boards to remain disinterested when the... Read more...

The idea of better risk management has been discussed ad nauseum in the financial services industry. But other industries are taking up the issue as well. According to CFO.com, interest in hiring a... Read more...

Enterprise risk management is a hot topic these days. Disclosure management, in this litigious era, has perhaps never been more crucial. There's a lot of risk associated with ineffective disclosure... Read more...

For a look at the importance of the GRC platform these days, check out Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise company. It's had great success with its OpenPages platform, which provides the means... Read more...

Protiviti has released its annual survey of internal audit capabilities and needs. These sorts of surveys tend to be marketing exercises as much as anything--you've got to do them--but Protiviti's... Read more...

Louis Freeh certainly picked a good time to hang out his shingle. The former director of the FBI, who subsequently spent five years with MBNA, now runs his own consulting firm in Delaware, reports... Read more...

One view out there is that GRC vendors are in for some rough times, as the recession really guts IT budgets and companies get more efficient with their Sarbanes-Oxley processes. On the other hand,... Read more...

Paisley was one of the few software companies to truly rocket to prominence thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley. It has more recently focused on its risk management offerings, and those are likely what... Read more...

We've noted that the most recession-proof IT applications tend to be linked to risk management and compliance. The Securities and Exchange Commission certainly thinks this is the case. Officials have... Read more...