Operational Risk Management...

What did the US learn about security from the Presidential Elections and the respective conventions in New York and Boston? Michael Smith ...

We have to agree with Simon Moss of Mantas. Prior to September 11th and the USA PATRIOT Act, financial institutions had a similar outloo...

Why are people getting nervous about companies like ChoicePoint ? This article in the Washington Post by Robert O'Harrow comes from hi...

Will COSO become the Operational Risk standard for Basel II? This paper by Patrick McConnell argues: The wording of Basel II is suffici...

This iJet advertorial explains many of the benefits of having a travel risk management provider for your global corporate executives. ...

Foreign Assets Control Regulations for the U.S. Financial Services industry is a vital area of operational risk management in the enterpris...

Operational Risk is not just for the big banking institutions any longer. The latest research from Financial Insights indicates that the r...

If you don't have one yet, consider this one: A Model 2005 Operational Risk Resolution The organization shall develop, implement, ...

The latest catastrophic Tsunami natural disaster as a result of a huge undersea earthquake reminds us of the need for effective contingency ...

As the U.S. recovers from yet another accounting scandal at Fannie Mae , other countries are getting on board with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. ...

Pfizer has 10% of it's revenues coming to a halt as a result of the Celebrex Warnings about it's link to greater risk of Heart Atta...

In the rush to get someone into the job, most high level qualified candidates have already said no and the current US administration is scra...

The latest Tower Group Study says spending will be up to $362.B with 72% in North America and the EU. Tower said consumer banking will d...

The Gartner Group has determined that their clients need to prepare for the upcoming Avian Flu pandemic that is being discussed among the W...

In Deloitte's 2004 Risk Management Survey more than half of the respondents say integration of systems to handle Operational Risk is a ...

You have been indicted. This Boardmember article by Peter Higgins of 1SecureAudit articulates the essence of an effective OPS Risk compli...

Last summer Scott Berinato penned this article. It sums up the many facets of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the challenges for the ...

With an estimated 4.5 million "Phishing" attacks last month now being reported by Messagelabs our customers and clients need to b...

What is H.R. 4830? A bill introduced last summer in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to dire...

US companies with a market cap between $75 and $700 Million will get a 45 day extension for compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)...

This article from Charles Baldwin highlights the recent rulings under the Whistleblower provisions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. I...

This latest article by McKinsey may have some interesting insight: Banks are increasing their coverage against operational risk to compl...

The UK's Civil Contingencies Act is on the door step and David Honor of Continuity Central has the following observations: No UK org...

The topics of the annual Overseas Security Advisory Council Briefings and 8th Annual Transnational Crime Seminar indicate what's on the...

The banks have a different perspective on ID Theft and privacy than consumers. As this Bank Tech article points out. Late last month, f...

The National Incident Management System is soon to be approved. An integrated national plan for response to terrorist attacks and other ...

The long anticpated compliance date with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 arrived today and many organizations are not ready. Although many co...

As the corporate risk management factions realize that they need to converge in their coordination, global assurance management will take ho...

Risk mitigation training solution delivers greater confidence, lower costs, and increased peace of mind for this Washington, D.C. commercia...

Business Process Outsourcing is a hot issue and as this article by The Heritage Foundation so clearly states: Defending the nation again...

Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are sending auditors to the pencil sharpener. CSOs must learn to cooperate and share expertise, without g...

George W. Bush won his Second Term as President of the United States today. "To make this nation stronger and better, I will need y...

The dialogue from a recent CSO Conference that focused on information sharing keeps coming back to why it is so hard to accomplish. Only...

Robert Young Pelton's Travel Tips may be common sense. These are also the type of tips you get from those expensive executive seminars...

John and Stan could not have said it any better.... By John Van Decker and Stan Lepeak 10 May 2004 | Meta Group One common mispercept...

The quality of data is becoming a risk management issue again according to this latest Banking Study of 1700 banks in 63 countries. Sarban...

Phishing is making it's way inside corporations and represents a new threat by hackers. The ploy is to send an email that looks legit...

In the latest issue of Corporate Board Member you will find some very interesting statistics and comments. This one got our attention: ...

Travel risk to corporate executives is on the rise. Even if you are not an executive who can afford the services of personal body guards an...

The Tower Group is shouting the need for banks to automate now in the midst of the Basel II momentum. While business performance has conver...

What other risk will the financial services industry find to be more of a threat? With the latest litigation filed by the now famous Eliot ...

The latest surveys from PwC ASIA paints a rosey picture for a rise in Information Security spending. About 67 per cent of information te...

There seems to be some discussion on whether the CFO should also act as the Chief Risk Officer? . These days, however, the risk managemen...

The newspapers are full of headlines today displaying the operational risks we contend with in these volatile days ahead of the US President...

The Special 301 process is gaining some new attention in the IPR battle. The WIPO conference in Geneva has also produced some new headway ...

Most CIOs have been intimately involved in meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) deadlines and setting up auditing reporting processes. But if you...

In last month’s Survive newsletter Patrick Roberts commented on an interesting article in the Times about insurance companies proposing to ...

As the newest band of banks collaborate on Anti-Phishing strategies one can only wonder what they will do differently to mitigate this oper...

A recent study has found that 93% of CIO's that were polled were clueless on their Section 404 compliance responsibilities of Sarbanes-...

As the estimates come in from the losses from Florida hurricanes it looks like it will exceed $22 Billion. The total economic impact is ...

After stopping by the booth at the ASIS conference in Dallas this week I'm convinced that Bruce McIndoe and his team are on to something...

NFPA has announced that is has scheduled a series of workshops aimed at helping facility emergency managers understand and use NFPA 1600. T...

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and David A. Vise Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 27, 2004; Page A01 Fannie Mae , one of Washing...

Since 1999, Basel II has been coming to a bank near you in America : "At the time, the Federal Reserve announced that the top nine bank...

The Department of Homeland Security launches the Ready for Business Campaign at the US Chamber of Commerce today. The extension of the G...