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Webcast of the Week

 Risk Oversight and the New SEC Rule
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Help Wanted: Ad of the Week

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Event of the Week

 International Tax Legislative Update
Sponsored by Vertex

Thought Leadership of the Week

ERM in the Aftermath of the Credit Crisis
Courtesy of Crowe Horwath

The Resource Exchange

Sample Risk Acceptance Request
Submitted by Circuit City

Risk Inventory
Submitted by Cognizant Technology

Featured Databases

Rules, Standards, Guidance
Rules, Guidance From SEC, PCAOB, FASB, More

Internal Controls
Compare Cos.’ Internal Controls Disclosures

GRC Illustrated Series

 The IFRS Ripple Effect
The 23rd Installment in This Exclusive Series

Compensation Survey

 Compliance, Audit & Risk Compensation Survey
Empsight’s 2010 Compensation Survey is now open for participation. It is the leading source of its kind and reports on Fortune 500 and other large multinationals.

Global Integrity Survey

2009 Global Integrity Survey
Download the findings of the 2009 Global Integrity Survey, compiled by Compliance Week and sponsored by Integrity Interactive.
Compliance Week 2009--Fourth Annual Conference for Corporate Financial, Legal, Risk, Audit & Compliance Executives, June 3-5, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Steve Dreyer

Managing Director, Corporate Ratings
Standard & Poor's

Steven Dreyer Steve Dreyer is the U.S. practice leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings, overseeing a group of 40 analysts providing credit ratings and research on investor-owned electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, gas pipelines, project finance, and public-private infrastructure partnerships. He also leads an S&P research project on the applicability of Enterprise Risk Management to the credit analysis process for U.S. corporate ratings globally.

From 2000 to 2006, Steve was North American practice leader for Insurance Ratings. He joined Standard & Poor’s in 1990 with its acquisition of ratings firm Insurance Solvency International, Ltd., whose U.S. subsidiary he managed. Previously he was responsible for insurance industry forecasting at Chase Econometrics.

Steve earned a B.A. in Statistics from the University of Delaware and did graduate work at Drexel University. He completed executive development programs at the University of Virginia (1996), Columbia University (2005) and INSEAD (2007).

Steve was named to Insurance Newscast’s “List of 100 Most Powerful People in Insurance in North America” from 2002 to 2006. In 2003, he contributed to the Greater New York Safety Council’s “Roundtables on Sector Preparedness,” reporting to the 9-11 Commission. He is a director of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, which sets ethical standards in the sale of life insurance and annuities.