Deloitte and IBM this week announced the latest step in their longstanding strategic alliance, creating a transformative series of risk management and regulatory compliance solutions to help financial services firms to more efficiently address their immediate compliance and conduct requirements. Details inside.
Risk Management
Q&A: How E*Trade Recovered From the Financial Crisis
Image: As part of our occasional series of conversations with compliance and risk executives, we caught up with Michael Pizzi, chief risk officer at E*Trade Financial. Prior to the financial crisis, E*Trade had made sizable investments in mortgage-related assets—toxic assets whose value ultimately plummeted, resulting in substantial writedowns for the financial services company. Inside, Pizzi talks about how E*Trade revamped its enterprise risk management framework to recover from its crisis predicament.
LSG Launches Global Enterprise Risk Management Suite
LSG, a software application and business process outsourcing provider, recently announced the launch of GERMS (Global Enterprise Risk Management Suite). LSG GERMS is a business model for global companies to achieve greater transparency and stability by mitigating and offsetting risk. Details inside.
PwC Names Risk Assurance Managing Director
David Thelander has been appointed as a risk assurance managing director in PwC’s Risk & Compliance, Systems & Analytics practice. Details inside.
Get Started with your Information Governance Blueprint
The era of Big Data has forever changed our information environment. Data is exploding in both volume and variety, and it is imperative for organizations to understand and have control over all of their information in whatever format it exists. Information governance activities and technologies enable organizations to maximize the value of their information while […]
Security, Mobility, and Social Media: Minimizing Risk in the Era of Sharing
“Communications surrounding security need to be planned and continuous, and they need to be combined with appropriate training and governance.”– Partha Mukherjee, Chief Information Officer, Church’s Chicken. In today’s ever-evolving landscape, security challenges are becoming more complex. Organizations are faced with increasing risks that range from dealing with the changing IT landscape, to properly supporting […]
White Paper: Building Better Vendor Risk Assessments
Increase the Quality and Efficiency of Your Vendor Risk Management Program. Download our informative new white paper, Building Better Assessments, and learn how organizations like yours can improve third-party risk assessments while balancing regulatory pressures, business requirements, and budget constraints. Key topics include: Quality – How did you perform against your objectives during the previous […]
Shop Talk: Managing Vendor Risk
Pop quiz: Try to name a recent example of corporate misconduct that did not somehow include a company’s vendors or third parties. It’s not easy, and third parties are now a huge part of the compliance officer’s responsibility. In our latest Compliance Week executive forum, we gathered a dozen CCOs to talk about vendor risks and building a systematic approach to handling them. The full conversation is inside.
Klass Capital Acquires Resolver
Klass Capital this week announced the acquisition of Resolver, a risk-based corporate performance, compliance, and assurance software provider. The transaction includes Resolver’s GRC product line and their company operations. Details inside.
The Elements of Privacy Risk – GRC Illustration
Organizations that handle personal information face increasingly complex challenges to effectively manage privacy risk and compliance. The impact of these challenges covers the entire information life cycle. Whether information is collected to support individual transactions, conduct research or meet legal requirements, the duty to keep that information secure and private arises. And when operations or […]


