The following report from Protiviti, an international Risk & Business Consulting and Internal Audit company, and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative, contains results from the fifth annual risk survey of directors and executives. This report includes their views and the likely collection of risks that will affect their organisations over 2017. Key findings The […]
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Top 5 Risk Management Trading Rules
Portfolio managers (PM) and traders make investment decisions everyday which translate into risk positions in their books. These decisions are mostly supported by strong fundamental views and solid convictions, based on the PM’s or trader’s view on how the market will move and how will these moves affect their positions. There are several techniques that a PM or trader […]
100+ Countries Corporate Governance Codes
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 […]
EBOOK: Reimagining Risk: An integrated Approach to Enterprise Risk Management
Jim DeLoach has more than 40 years of experience in global consulting in business, IT, Risk and Internal Audit. He is currently a member of the Protiviti Solutions Leadership Team. Jim has authored several books, including Enterprise-Wide Risk Management: Strategies for Linking Risk & Opportunity (Financial Times Management Briefings) (FT Management Briefings) (the first book […]
10 Must Have Skills to be a Successful Risk Manager
As regulatory requirements shift and evolve, so must Risk and Compliance professionals keep improving and grow their skills and knowledge. Keeping up with regulation and ongoing wider regulatory programmes, as well as covering the day to day operations at financial firms or banks, requires that Risk Managers are constantly learning, adapting and systematically moving their […]
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% […]
VIDEO: An Overview of Operational Risk Management
Operational Risk has historically been considered by many as the less-important-“younger brother” of Credit Risk and Market Risk. Operational Risk has been growing in importance within financial services providers, being them top tier 1 banks, brokerage firms, investment management firms, financial boutiques, among others. The fundamental aspect of operational risk is that if a given (operational) risk occurs […]
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 […]