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BROKERS AND CARRIERS - PROFITING FROM THE PPACA/OBAMACARE DISRUPTIVE CHANGES!

5 Profitable Strategies For Employers, Brokers, Wholesalers, Carriers, Service Providers For Dealing With PPACA/Obamacare! Profitable Solutions For The PPACA/Obamacare Disruptive Changes! Opportunities for 2013 and Beyond!

PPACA/Obamacare has brought

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Business Grey Space

The fog business can be the same as the fog of war: assumptions. Fatal assumptions, those we hold as truisms, coupled to strategic culture results in less than a clear-eyed net assessment for your investors or your organization. There is more to this

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You know you are a risk manager when...

Make a comment in the section below by providing your best one liner. Let's get as many as we can. Be creative. I'll start it.

1) Answering questions at a cocktail party about what you do, you get blank stares and people move quietly away.

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What is your opinion on appointing of a new Bank of England Governor?

A Canadian, Mark Carney, is now the most powerful unelected official in England.

What is your opinion on this appointment? Are there not enough good people from UK who can do the job?

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What are your primary risk concerns when making the decision to outsource?

A recent article from Firstpost Business addresses the increase in financial audit work moving overseas: "concern is growing that no coherent regulatory system exists to closely police the work in India, to gauge its quality, and to take action if pr

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The Ultimate Cost Savings with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) --- Is it Feasible?

New article posted by our client Pitney Bowes Software on Engage Healthcare today discusses the rise in Accountable Care Organization’s (ACOs), some of the challenges/controversy on whether the model can achieve sufficient cost savings, and area of o

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Answer these quick questions

1. Is the current generation cleaning up the economic mess of the baby-boomers?

2. Investment Bankers in the Crisis: Perpetrators or Victims?

3. Without Jobs, is Apple losing its edge?

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Changing weather pattersn and frequency of invoking DR

I am seeking assistance in understanding how the changes over the last few years in global weather patters are being taken into account in risk assessments, BCP and ultimately the invocation of DR plans. Historically many organisations have relied on

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What is worse thing than being hated for being a banker?

It is being both a banker and a risk manager so you will be hated by your colleagues if you dare to take a stand.

Have you been in a situation where either a colleague, a client, a friend, a regulator, a vendor, an auditor or someone you report to

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Is the Gold standard back to the economic mainstream?

The Gold standard has returned to be a mainstream discussion, with a "gold commission" set to become part of official US Republican party policy.

Our opinion is that a return to a fixed money supply would also remove the central bank’s ability to off

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Suffering from Disclosure Overload? Share Your Pain Here

I’m doing research for a white paper on the growing load of disclosures that companies must make to government regulators, investors, capital providers, etc. Corporate controllers and finance directors tell me that regulators have gone overboard in t

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Oracle Crystal Ball & Excel

I have just recently got my hands on a the Crystal Ball add-in for excel. After reading Doug Hubbard's "The Failure of Risk Management" he convinced me that point estimates are old-school techniques to be put on the shelf, and running simulations on

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What are the major challenges for banks in the implementation of Basel III?

What are the challenges banks are facing with the Basel III implemnation What is your experience?

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Does Basel III make Global Economic system safer at the global systemic level?

Basel III does harmonizes risk buckets while at the same time creating piles of more regulations. How does this new regulatory regime makes things safer? Is the supposed efficiency of the new risk regime coming at the expense of systemic resiliency?

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Free IT GRC Audit Summit - want to speak?

Hello,

This month in the GRC community on BrightTALK: IT GRC Audit Summit

We welcome new, independent speakers in the community, so if you would like to present at the event for free do let me know!

Many thanks,

Katrina

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RSAM

We are planning a roll-out of RSAM within our IT risk environment and have subsequently been enrolled as part of the project team for this exercise. I have a list of questions surrounding the roll-out and initiation and would surely appreciate your

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Access Control Consultants

If there are any consultants with experience in Access Control that would be interested in doing a joint webinar with SAP in the fall please let me know. I'm happy to answer questions here or privately.

More details:

- this is part of a program I run f

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How/Why did you get into Risk?

Was just wondering how the rest of us here got to work in the Risk Management area.

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What is a best of breed software solution for optimal capital budgeting and project selection/planning/management for a SMB?

A special request from a member:

We're a fairly small company and looking for a solution that would be functional across different departments (finance, operations, etc), incorporating capital budgeting, project planning/management, and decision mode

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U-turn compliance and reputation risk

Another bank has been hit with accusations of major non-compliance issues. Standard Chartered has been accused from the New York State financial regulator that it operated as a 'rogue institution' and exposed the US financial system to ‘terrorists’ a

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Dear GlobalRisk Community member, Our community’s mission is to foster business, networking and educational explorations among members. Learn from some of the top experts in the industry as they clearly explain how to approach the most important Risk management concepts. Check out their expert tips and use the link at the end of each article to navigate back to the website to leave your comment or ask a question. Some of the topics include: How do you Explain Risk Appetite? How to Prepare a…

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Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) Screening Requirements

I have just published a guide on PEPs screening requirements around the world and would like to know if anybody has any feedback on it? https://complyadvantage.com/blog/politically-exposed-persons-peps-screening-requirements-around-the-world/CA-PEP-Screening-Map-FINAL-V7 (1).jpg

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[Free COVID-19 Framework] What's the path to recovery look like?

We created a free presentation (attached), which discusses both global and organizational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with critical actions organizations should take immediately. This presentation introduces a framework that helps regions and organizations navigate a path to recovery via 9 potential scenarios. These scenarios capture outcomes related to GDP impact, public health response, and economic policies. The presentation also breaks down 6 immediate and critical actions…

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If risk management is about decision making, are current risk management solutions irrelevant?

Now that the updated COSO and ISO risk management standards emphasize a connection to enterprise objectives and decision making, does this mean ERM and GRC solutions focused on risk registers and regulatory compliance are missing the true value of risk management?Will current risk management solutions evolve to integrate more decision support functionality or will standalone prescriptive analytics and other technology solutions take a more prominent role in enabling risk-informed…

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A question related to classification of instruments between trading and banking book.

We have an interesting question from one of our members. "We usually perform OTC FX transactions with clients backed-to-back on the market (with Banks). Now we are going to perform a FX swap (i.e. Spot + forward) JPY/EUR for the Bank account for 1 week at the longest. The purpose is to get EUR place @ CB for LCR compliance purpose (no trading purposes). Bank's Management think that this should be considered as a trading position and therefore be classified within the Bank's trading book.…

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Plunging oil prices: curse or blessing in disguise?

The recent sudden crash of oil prices has had a major impact on the world economy, leading to many troubled faces in the international arena. The Russians fear the effects of yet another powerful hit on their economy, Venezuela seems to be considering default and the Americans are weary of the consequences for its young and emerging shale oil industry. And then you have the Middle East, where the smallest match is enough to ignite the largest fire. But are these worries really justified or…

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BROKERS AND CARRIERS - PROFITING FROM THE PPACA/OBAMACARE DISRUPTIVE CHANGES!

Business Grey Space

You know you are a risk manager when...

What is your opinion on appointing of a new Bank of England Governor?

What are your primary risk concerns when making the decision to outsource?

The Ultimate Cost Savings with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) --- Is it Feasible?

Answer these quick questions

Changing weather pattersn and frequency of invoking DR

What is worse thing than being hated for being a banker?

Is the Gold standard back to the economic mainstream?

Suffering from Disclosure Overload? Share Your Pain Here

Oracle Crystal Ball & Excel

What are the major challenges for banks in the implementation of Basel III?

Does Basel III make Global Economic system safer at the global systemic level?

Basel III does harmonizes risk buckets while at the same time creating piles of more regulations. How does this new regulatory regime makes things safer? Is the supposed efficiency of the new risk regime coming at the expense of systemic resiliency?

Free IT GRC Audit Summit - want to speak?

RSAM

Access Control Consultants

How/Why did you get into Risk?

What is a best of breed software solution for optimal capital budgeting and project selection/planning/management for a SMB?

U-turn compliance and reputation risk

Note: this page contains paid content.

Featured Discussions

Introducing the Global Risk Series - Book 1 Risk Management How Tos

Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) Screening Requirements

[Free COVID-19 Framework] What's the path to recovery look like?

If risk management is about decision making, are current risk management solutions irrelevant?

A question related to classification of instruments between trading and banking book.

Plunging oil prices: curse or blessing in disguise?

Note: this page contains paid content.

About Us

Useful Links

Business Partners