The situation in Magreb and the strike against the despotic regime of Gaddafi by the Western coalition, sharpen the stand of long ignored and discriminated minorities in wider European context. This specifically refers to one of the most oppressed and numerous – the Roma minority. The present analysis discusses rising trisks, emerging out of economic inequalities, but also deeper cultural discrepancies among Roma people in South Eastern Europe. Demographic, educational, employment, qualification
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The referendum (19 March) on the constitutional reforms in Egypt was held in compliance with the state laws. Certain violations at a number of polling stations were reported but they were insignificant and could not affect the final outcome. Nearly 18.5 milli
No company falls out of compliance over-night. It’s a gradual process resulting from a combination of overlooked issues, that together create a serious problem. Strangely enough, compliance issues often result from taking an overly compliance-focused approach to risk management; a common problem for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs.
Take for example J&J who, after a series of product recalls in 2009, has once again fallen out of compliance and now faces a permanent FDA injunction
Beware the Fine Print
Introduction
If like most, you base your overall assessment of a country or city based on some-kind of threat rating then you need to read this article before blindly basing all your business decisions upon such tools.
This article will address the development and reporting of security or travel safety threats and how they are communicated. Specifically, the collection of data, affected audience demographics, aggregated indicators, qualifiers and the real threats revealed.
By t
Introduction
If you want to know why the Japan tsunami turned into a far greater disaster than the initial earthquake and learn the 7 main reasons for this calamity, then read on. In this article we will touch on the government, closed cultures, leadership vacuum, system failures and Japanese crisis management, timing and information practices.
By the end of this article you will have the information to act in a much more decisive manner during the next similar crisis or immediately review your cr
Basel III cracks are starting to appear is a blog article PART 2 that reviews the differing opinions of regulators across the planet in respects to their unique implementation approaches for the Basel III capital and liquidity requirements.
Are disparate opinions on how to implement the accord a threat to the new Basel III mandate or an expected natural outcome of the differing banking environments across the planet.
One would expect each unique regulator to put specific emphasis on certain areas
Does anyone have such audit protocols and is willing to share them (automated or non automated questionaires) - I would like to use them for internal auditing in preparation for certification or accreditation. Should the questionaires not be automated in terms of weightings and or scorings I am willing to automate the spreadsheet and share it.
Sincerely
Beulah
Beulah
Basel III cracks are starting to appear is the first part of a two part series that looks at some of the mis-conceptions being bantered around over Basel III.
In this article we argue that Basel III capital floors can't be compared with the Basel II capital approach because the entire capital and liquidity funding methods for banks is going to operate differently under the new regulation.
When I first looked at Basel III quite a few months ago now, I reviewed the accord or back then the proposed g
As it is possible to read in the article, the modeFinance financial analysts have studied the evolution of the financial performances for more than 3 million companies all around the world during the triennial 2007-2009, with the purpose of understanding the effects of the financial crisis in the compa
Having just joined the GlobalRisk community (having been referred from the Political Risks Group on LinkedIn) I thought that it may be of benefit to post the latest edition of the report that we publish every six months.
Gallagher%20London%20PRI%20Report%20and%20Market%20Update%20January%202011.pdf
Clearly events in MENA since January have superceded this report (which will be published again in July 2011) but it will give the community some idea of the commercial insurance market appetitite f
In our first blog article on Catastrophe and Extreme Value Theory which can be found by clicking here, we looked at methods for predicting outcome probabilities for climatic events.
I promised that I was going to follow up with another article on how operational risk and catastrophes can be market traded, this new blog can be found here.
The ability to trade exposure from catastrophes or to allow insurance firms to securitise their underwritten risk is an important aspect of the insurance market
Russian Amateur 'Web Detective' Interviewed on Successes in FindingCriminals. Material in the World News Connection is generally copyrighted by the source cited. Permission for use must be obtained from the copyright holder. Inquiries regarding use may be directed to NTIS, US Dept. of Commerce.
In the United States everybody knows about people once they have broken the law. If a gently smiling neighbor has served a sentence for rape, people are immediately warned: Bear this in mind, be careful.
This year has been particularly negative with respects to natural disasters and the humongous related impacts that obtrudes the lives and livelihoods of the communities affected. Considering we are only a couple of months into the year, the number of catastrophes that have struck various countries around the world is quite astonishing.
To list a few disasters alone, we saw Queensland which is normally a drought suffering state of Australia inundated with so much rain that mass flash flooding ens
Managing Business Travel Risks and Crisis
Introduction
If you know that business travel is not without its risk and the potential for crisis, then you need to read this article.
In this article we are going to talk about the management and containment of crisis as it relates to travellers and travel managers.
The objective of this article is to share with you the collective knowledge on managing crisis and significantly improve your ability to identify and manage a crisis but also improve your busin
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Thanks to MORE methodology’s predictive character, modeFinance reports have already seen the financial and economic difficulties of the company. It is possible to observe with the modeFinance Credit Report (link): Dynegy has started having difficulties starting since 2009 with a fast downgrade. The
Dark clouds are on the horizon for rating agencies and while many banks have become public enemy number one, the rating agencies aren't off the hook from their hand in the Credit Crisis either. I am not saying it is curtains for the rating agencies but the world is certainly going to change for them.
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Hello everyone,
Does anyone have information (general or otherwise) regarding performance standards for controls. I´m trying to come up with some good examples to present at risk workshops. By showing a few I hope to get the message across that control identification alone is not enough.
Thanks!
Benjamín
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Measuring risk means walking a thin line. Balancing what is highly unlikely from what it totally impossible. Financial institutions need to be prepared for the highly unlikely but must avoid getting sucked into wasting time worrying about the totally impossible.
Here are some sins that are sometimes committed by risk measurers:
1. Downplaying uncertainty - Uncertainty increases when loss size increases. Do your users know that?
2. Comparing incomparables - Do you add together numbers from di
