All Risk Management articles – Page 135
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Grant Thornton Grows Financial Services Advisory Practice
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.
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ProcessUnity Enhances Cloud-based Apps for GRC Management
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.
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Squeezed: Banks Have No Easy Path on De-Risking
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 ...
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Taming Vendor Risks Continues to Flummox Compliance Programs
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 ...
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Deloitte Acquires CIS to Expand Compliance Services for Life Sciences, Healthcare Industries
Deloitte this week announced that it has acquired Compliance Implementation Services (CIS), a life sciences compliance consulting firm. CIS will join Deloitte Advisory, a risk and financial advisory practice, as part of its regulatory compliance market offering. Effective immediately, the business will operate as “CIS by Deloitte." Details inside.
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Exiger Adds Managing Director
EXIGER, a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has appointed Christopher Prather as managing director at EXIGER Advisory, EXIGER’s specialized consulting division, which executes the firm’s monitoring assignments and delivers sustainable governance, risk management and regulatory compliance consulting services to financial institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and ...
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Canada AML Study Finds Compliance Gaps
A first-of-its-kind survey on Canadian compliance professionals conducted by Grant Thornton finds significant weaknesses in the AML compliance practices of Canadian companies. Among the findings: many compliance staff are not consistently visiting their overseas locations and rarely tailor their AML training programs to the specific needs of different groups, particularly ...
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Compliance Officers as Strategic Partners
Lots of people talk about the compliance function as crucial to business strategy today, but gaps remain: According to one PwC survey of chief executives, 78 percent of CEOs say overregulation is the top threat to growing their business; at the same time, only 35 percent of CCOs in PwC’s ...
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MetricStream, Everbridge Partner to Provide Disaster Recovery Service
MetricStream, a GRC Management Apps provider, this week announced that it is integrating MetricStream's Business Continuity Management (BCM) App with the Everbridge Unified Critical Communications platform to provide users with an integrated communication management capability that supports the end-to-end disaster recovery process. More inside.
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OCC: Cyber-Security Priorities for 2015
Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry last week provided an overview of the top cyber-security priorities that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will be focusing on for the remainder of 2015. These priorities include the release of a new cyber-security assessment tool that financial institutions can use ...
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Socialware Opens Platform to Solve Social Media Risk Challenges
Socialware, a provider of social media risk management solutions for the enterprise, now makes it easy for third parties and partners to offer security, compliance, and brand protection solutions using key capabilities from the Socialware platform. Details inside.
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Marsh and FireEye Partner to Offer Cyber-Security Readiness Service
Marsh, an insurance broker and risk management firm, and FireEye, a cyber-security firm, has announced a collaboration to offer clients a new service: Marsh Cyber OASIS. This service is designed to assists clients by providing an objective evaluation of their organization’s ability to detect and respond to cyber-attacks and the ...
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New Hearsay Social Solution Simplifies Social Media Compliance
Hearsay Social, provider of the Predictive Social Suite for financial advisors and insurance agents, this week announced the launch of the new Universal Supervision experience for social media and website content, designed to make it easier and faster for financial services companies to enforce compliance policies. Details inside.
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Deloitte and IBM Team to Deliver Next Generation Risk Intelligence
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.
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e-Book: Managing Third-Party Risks
In today’s complex business environment, almost every company depends on outside vendors and other third parties to some extent—and often to a great extent. Taming the increasing risk exposure and threats that come with managing third parties can overwhelm compliance officers.This e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with ProcessUnity, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...