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Risk Management Alerts

Background Checks Ascend to the C-Suite: Companies are often hesitant to perform background checks on C-level employees and candidates -- at their own risk, according to Ken Springer, Corporate Resolutions president and founder and a former FBI agent. [more]
Balancing Risk and Performance: Managing enterprise risk still ranks low on finance executives' list of priorities. [more]
Consulting an Expert on GRC's Future: Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) has a bright future as a management tool, according to Miles Everson, leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' advisory GRC practice. [more]
Finance Execs Slow to Hedge Weather Risks: The overwhelming majority of senior finance and risk executives (82 percent) believe that climate change will force modifications to their business model, according to a survey by CME Group and Storm Exchange Inc. [more]
Emergencies: Who Is Most Prepared?: While many US companies have prepared for the worst with written emergency plans, there continues to be no agreed upon standard for these strategies. [more]
Watchlist Exec Discusses High-Risk Public Office Job Roles: Last month Dow Jones Watchlist published a list of the top 10 public office job roles with the greatest risk of involvement in money laundering, illicit payments, corruption, and other illegal activity. [more]
Hedge Fund Managers Work Hard To Keep Investors: Faced with redemption notices and the fact that hedge funds lost 2.8 percent in the first quarter, hedge fund managers are scrambling to keep their investors and alleviate their worries. [more]
The New View of Risk: In today's world of hypersensitive markets and heightened public exposure, the days of reactive risk management are numbered. [more]
Survey: Climate Change Tops List of Emerging Risks: Global warming is the single biggest threat to business growth over the next 10 years, according to a survey by Business Continuity Expo 2008. [more]
FASB Pushes for More Disclosure: Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement No 161, is intended to provide investors with more transparency into an organization's financial standing, performance, and cash flows. [more]
Platform Provides View into Governance: RiskMetrics Group has launched Governance Policy Exchange, a platform that provides visibility into leading institutions' corporate governance policies and principles. [more]
Fed Cuts Rate Again: The Federal Reserve has cut its lending rate from 3.50 percent to 3.25 percent and established another lending facility for big investment banks to attain short-term loans in an effort to assist a panicked US economy. [more]
SAP Flexes Its GRC Muscles: The enterprise software giant has announced new upgrades to its governance, risk, and compliance offerings, including enhanced financial controls automation and strategic risk management. [more]
Risky Business for Insurers: Climate change, demographic shifts, and catastrophic events are the top three risks to the life insurance industry, according to the study "Strategic business risk 2008" by Ernst & Young and Oxford Analytica. [more]
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: Executive pay is under more scrutiny, after Nell Minow, editor and co-founder of The Corporate Library, urged the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to require failed CEOs to return undue compensation to shareholders. [more]
Depreciation Nation: Good financial governance requires that companies take advantage, whenever possible, of favorable tax treatments that allow them to recoup part of the cost of infrastructure investments — and the 2008 economic stimulus package, which provides a nice boost to businesses in the form of bonus depreciation, is a good example. [more]
Ferreting Out Fraud at the Top: Serious insider fraud is most often perpetrated by individuals at the top of the organizational chart -- and the higher the position, the greater the potential loss. [more]
Navigating Risk in the Age of Volatility: Understanding potential and impending threats is a difficult task at the best of times, but it's especially challenging when markets and economies are in rollercoaster mode. [more]
How CEO Compensation Stoked the Subprime Flames: Poorly designed "incentive" pay packages that encouraged CEOs to off-load risk onto shareholders were a precipitating factor in the subprime crisis. [more]
How Green Is Your Supply Chain?: The pressure is on for businesses to demonstrate their commitment to meeting environmental challenges, and one critical area of scrutiny is the supply chain. [more]