Risk Management

ACL, an audit, compliance and risk management solutions provider, recently announced that Equinix has implemented ACL GRC and ACL Analytics across the organization to streamline communication and reporting between different departments. Several teams, including business assurance services, enterprise risk management, and compliance, will use the ACL platform to support a unified and collaborative approach to managing strategic risks. More inside.

Matrix-Exzac, a global provider of financial crime prevention and compliance solutions and services announces the formation of a new subsidiary, Exzac Financial Risk Advisory. The newly created group will be led by John Grannis, who recently served as a member of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Risk Management Supervision and Federal Examination teams. More inside.

Amber Road, a provider of global trade management solutions (GTM), announced that AeroTurbine, a global aviation company specializing in supply chain management solutions, has selected the Amber Road restricted party screening (RPS) solution to upgrade its compliance processes. Details inside.

Socialware, a provider of social media risk management solutions for the enterprise, has announced the availability of its Social Access Control solution. Complementing Socialware’s existing solutions for regulated users in financial services, Social Access Control gives firms in any industry the ability to place controls around which social network features any individual or group of employees can use. Details inside.

Software provider Wynyard Group announced today that it has won a new contract with The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to provide Wynyard risk management software. RBNZ is New Zealand’s central bank, responsible for operating monetary policy to maintain stable prices and assisting the functioning of the country’s financial system. More inside.

MetricStream, a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management apps provider, this week announced a new offering: GRC Cloud Business Intelligence with Tableau. The new offering will enable MetricStream cloud customers to transform their raw risk and compliance data into on-demand analytics and actionable risk intelligence that can facilitate quicker and better decision-making that drives business performance.

Paul Makowski has joined Grant Thornton as a managing director in the firm’s national Financial Services Advisory practice. Most recently, Makowski served as interim chief risk officer for the Mortgage division of BB&T. Details inside.

ProcessUnity, a provider of cloud-based applications for governance, risk and compliance management, recently announced the unveiling of new features and enhancements across 24 key application areas—all designed to expand data access, eliminate manual processes, and ensure overall program and user effectiveness. Details inside.

Image: Money service businesses, bitcoin startups, marijuana shops; the population of high-risk customers in the banking world is surging. Regulators have sent conflicting messages about wholesale de-risking of certain sectors, and that can force painful questions about how to build effective, and extensive, due diligence programs. “Regulators are talking from both sides of their mouth, and banks face a de-risking dilemma,” says David Gibbons, a former chief risk officer at HSBC. More inside.

Image: Vendor risks driving you crazy? Well, you are not alone. In a recent survey compliance and audit professionals gave their vendor risk management programs an overall score of only 2.8 on a 1 to 5 scale. Thankfully, corporate boardrooms are paying more attention now. “It’s risen to a level of consciousness that didn’t exist until relatively recently,” says Gary Roboff of the Santa Fe Group. A closer look at taming vendor risks is inside.