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- Why Can't Boards Get Risk Management Right?
- Presumably, Sir James Crosby was trying to protect the FSA from further embarrassment by stepping down from his job as the regulator's deputy chair. But in resigning, he's brought to light the reason: that he's said to have ignored a red alert from a risk manager while in charge of...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
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- Lloyd's of London's restructuring grabs attention.(Year in Review: Risk Management 1995)
- CIGNA runoff, lower cost of risk also were items of note in '95 Risk management's attention shifted from Pennsylvania Avenue to Wall Street, Main Street and assorted points east and west in 1995. Whereas 1994's top story, the failure of Congress to reaCIGNA runoff, lower cost of...
- Research articles 1995-12-25
- Practical Project Management Tips and Traps(Part Five – Contingency, Risk Management & EVA – Tips & Traps)
- The article discusses about the tips and traps involved in contingency,risk management & EVA.Taking the training part the tips and traps are as follows.The first tip is training-tailored to the user .Training should be designed to meet the specific needs of the trainee. This will require multi-faceted, multi-level training sessions,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Limits Of Risk Management - A Social Construction Approach
- This paper sets out to demonstrate that the traditional approach to risk management is based on a flawed assumption regarding the objectivity of risk. Risk management is generally seen as a possible remedy for the frequent failure of ISD Information Systems Development efforts. The idea behind traditional risk management is...
- White papers 2003-12-30
- 101 Rules Of Risk Management
- Risk is a situation marked with uncertainty and turmoil. Most organizations undergo failure, as they are unable to foresee the ensuing risks. The process calls for managing the risks and curbing the situation. It is not enough to formulate plans for risk management but it is also important to implement...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Risk Management Lessons From Long Term Capital-Management
- The 1998 failure of Long term Capital Management is said to have blown up the world's financial system. For such a near catastrophic movement, the finance profession has precious little information to draw from. By piecing together publicly available information, this paper draws risk management lessons. These strategies are analyzed...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Business Process Management (BPM): Support Technology for Operational Risk Management
- New regulatory developments, especially those related to Basel II, have turned operational risk into a key issue for managers in the financial services sector. Operational risk has traditionally been managed with specific solutions, whereby different departments develop a variety of support policies and procedures. In addition, risk occurrences are usually...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Focus on Risk Management
- The article says that bank examiners are focusing on risk management. Increasingly, banks are facing examiner criticism, downgrades in CAMELS ratings, and enforcement actions based on the alleged failure to have sufficient internal systems for identifying, measuring, controlling and monitoring risk. Examinations and enforcement actions are demanding greater board of...
- White papers 1996-07-03
- Cave paintings, Black Swans and standards: practitioners' perspectives on risk management
- Among the famous Lascaux cave paintings is a well-known rendering sometimes referred to as the "Scene of the Dead Man." In it, a prehistoric hunter topples over backwards--evidently gored to death by a bison. An evocative image, this may be the first recorded adverse event--an early failure in risk management....
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Automating IT risk management becoming easier: "audits are costly but failure is not an option." So confided the CEO of a Fortune 500 bank in the US last month as he briefed the new IT team
- Australia sits behind the US but in front of the UK when it comes to the next wave of risk management and compliance. Post Sarbanes Oxley and others, the risk and compliance debate is maturing beyond the IT systems needed to report clean financials to more operational considerations. ...
- Research articles 2005-09-15
- Legal Risk Management Manual For Foreign Business Startups In The United States
- The article provides a foreign high tech company (hereinafter referred to as the "Foreign Parent" or "Parent") that is planning to attack the U.S. market a concise blueprint for dealing with the various and sundry legal issues it will typically be faced with in the startup phase. The time sequence...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Lack of Integrity: 10th Bank Failure of 2008 on Poor Risk Management
- Markham Lee submits: Integrity Bank was closed by the FDIC on Friday due to the usual culprits of real estate loans and bad risk management: From Bloomberg:"Aug. 29 Bloomberg -- Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Georgia, was closed by U.S. regulators today, the 10th bank to collapse this...
- External links 2008-09-03
- Managing Risk: Rising Expectations And Accountability
- From the executive summary: ‘Today, the products and services banks offer are more complex, the costs of implementation are greater, and the consequences of missteps are higher. Serious consequences include financial losses, regulatory enforcement actions, lawsuits, customer flight, and bank failure. Complexity, cost, and consequences could be called the three...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Risk Methodologies for Utilities on the Move
- "As energy companies develop their trading operations, scalability of technology and having the right risk management tool set are crucial. Risk management is major problem. Value At Risk VAR is the globallyrecognised approach for risk measurement in trading operations. However, as companies develop their trading and integrating with...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Company's Success And Failure
- Effectively managing the risks of doing business is becoming a critical driver in many companies' success or failure. That is why it is so important for executives to have a handle on the risks their company faces; to understand the best way to manage those risks; and, most important, to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The CEO and Managing Risk in the 21st Century
- Many of the world's largest companies have suffered significant losses in market value at one time or another during the past decade. These losses were often the result of failures to anticipate, hedge against, and manage diverse risks. While losses due to extraneous circumstances are often unavoidable, failure to adequately...
- White papers 2005-01-21
- Adopting A Flexible Approach To Project Management Methodology
- This paper reports and analyses multimedia project methodology observed within the Multimedia Education Unit MEU at the University of Melbourne. The conclusion drawn from this study is that the benefits expected to flow from standardisation of project management methods are secondary to the interests of reducing the risk of failure....
- White papers 2006-08-02
- Management accounting—risk and control strategy: the examiner for paper P3 examines the crisis at Northern Rock and considers whether it was caused by a failure of risk management: PAPER P3
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Perhaps the most interesting case study of risk and control strategy last year was that of Northern Rock. In September 2007 the bank was one of the top five UK mortgage lenders and was listed on the FTSE 100 with assets worth more than 100bn [pounds sterling]....
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Risk Analysis
- Risk analysis is an important discipline for assuring the safety, reliability and quality of products and processes. It is also an area subject to increasing regulatory pressures. This article discusses and compares the two most widely used tools for risk analysis. It talks about "desktop" or "blackboard" structured methods that...
- White papers 1998-10-01
- Failure with a Silver Lining
- Some business failures aren't caused by management errors but simply because 'stuff happens'. Take Sony's Betamax and Netscape -- great innovations which, for different reasons outside their control, were doomed to fail. To this list add Silverjet, the business-class only airline, which went into...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
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