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With FCPA enforcement rising and 75 percent of foreign bribery schemes executed by third parties, outsourcing can create regulatory and reputational risks that should not be ignored.
Make a business case to your senior leadership to get the budget you need and prove the ROI of an efficient, automated third-party risk management system.

This white paper will help you demonstrate how your third-party risk management system should:
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As you likely know, GDPR (the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation) takes effect in May 2018. Are you ready? If your organization stores or processes EU citizen or resident personal information – any information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify someone – you need to know about GDPR.

But did you also know you that you are responsible for the personal data managed by your third-party vendors? Enterprises are responsible for the EU personal data managed by their own third p

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It has been my pleasure to work with William G. Ferrell, CIO of Ferrell Capital Management to produce a new online course "From Asset Allocation to Risk Allocation".  This course provides valuable insights into a new paradigm for managing investments - based on dynamically monitoring statistics related to Risk, rather than simply creating a diversified portfolio and hoping for the best.  Bill uses the analogy that this is like using Doppler Radar rather than the Farmer's Almanac to predict the w

Watch the Module 1 of our brand new course Mastering Credit Ratings: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming an expert (in 5 hours) which is available for a complimentary preview.

In this module we discuss the classification of rating systems, the architecture of internal rating systems including operating design and uses of internal risk grades.

To study the Module 1 of the course, just scroll down to the Curriculum section and click on the Preview button next to the Module 1 via the link below.

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This article is contributed by William G Ferrell, CIO of Ferrell Capital Management and the author of a new course on Global Risk Academy - "From Asset Allocation To Risk Allocation"

Risk Allocation

Since Harry Markowitz introduced Modern Portfolio Theory in 1952, Asset Allocation has been accepted as the standard for investment portfolio construction.  Based on historical behavior and individual predictions, managers make return and risk forecasts for categories of investments and combine them

In his book, “The Wisdom Chronicles: Competing to Win”, Dr. Ted Marra made the point that the success of virtually all organizations comes down to the relentless focus on a vital few factors. The unfortunate truth is that most senior executives are clueless about what they are.

Dr. Marra agreed to offer his book 'The Wisdom Chronicles: Competing to Win' for complimentary download for members of Global Risk Community (it is a short book) via the following link: https://mediaexplorers.lpages.co/co

Current research suggests that traditional risk management practices involving risk registers and software packages like Microsoft Excel might not be very effective anymore. Events over the recent years, e.g. 9/11, the financial crisis, or the nuclear disaster in Japan, have shown us that current risk management tools are insufficient to cope with (future) undesirable events.

Effective risk management is mainly about people and communication. Hence, we may need a more “human” approach to managing

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