The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) is an international scientific non-profit association. Its main goal is to provide debate forums and facilitate dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, with special focus on major corporate governance issues. The development of these dialogues and knowledge exchange promotes best practices which benefit the industry. This article includes a very […]
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INFOGRAPHIC: Trump Presidency and US Foreign Policy Risks
Many voices have been expressing their concerns on the US president-elect Donald Trump. Millions of tweets, blog posts, written press articles, hours of TV debates in different channels… One thing is for sure: there is great uncertainty in the next four years. The key aspect now is to watch how Donald Trump unfolds his policies […]
INFOGRAPHIC: Banks Risk Management Survey 2016 by EY
Banks have taken serious steps post-financial crisis to improve and even totally overhaul their Risk Management processes and systems . This has been an enormous challenge for banks as the industry regulation has increased exponentially post-financial crisis with capital and liquidity requirements also increasing. At the same time, CEO’s must keep their focus on increasing banking revenues to 10-15% […]
EBOOK: Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a method which provides a given firm to have an overview of all its key risks and associated information, therefore enabling the board and management team to make balanced, cross region wide risk decisions. Risks are Opportunities Earlier, so it seems, the world was less dangerous. Today, more and more enterprises with […]
Thomson Reuters Culture and Conduct Risk Survey 2016/17
This is Thomson Reuters’ forth annual survey, focusing on how financial services firms are managing conduct risk has identified distinct industry wide trends against which firms can benchmark their own progress. Last year, compliance and risk practitioners from more than 260 financial services firms across the world, including banks, brokers, asset managers and insurers took […]
How Much Risk Should I Take?
If you read technical analysis reports or any kind of possible “predictive” analysis reports on markets performance – if they have a commercial angle – you will often read the statement “past performances do not guarantee future performances“. This is obviously an important disclaimer that whoever is selling must include in any literature going out […]
Intelligent Risk – PRMIA – October 2016
This issue of Intelligent Risk explores strategic risk and financial institution business models, as well as offers updates on PRMIA initiatives and programs. Inside this issue: Reputational Risk – “How persistent are the effects of negative reputation events?” National differences in risk culture An interview with PRMIA Director of Learning and Development, Mary Rehm Market-risk […]
INFOGRAPHIC: The Aftermath of the BREXIT Vote
Many experts predicted a BREXIT calamity if the UK voted to leave. Leave was the outcome and the question now posing is: were they right? Take a look at the last three months and the aftermath of the BREXIT vote. BREXIT “doom and gloom” appears to be mostly exaggerated (so far) For the first half of […]
