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Are you wondering “How safe is it to travel to Thailand in 2011?“. So are many others. Find out here what the main travel safety and security issues will be for Thailand in 2011. You may be surprised as to what the REALthreats and issues are.

Thailand Travel Safety and Security Report

Remove the guess work or hesitation when considering travel to Thailand

• No more fear and exaggerated reporting
• No more waiting for the main news broadcasts
• No more worried or confused managers and travellers
• No more c

Information & Security: An International Journal

Special issue on

Countering Maritime Piracy

Editor: Prof. Alexander Yankov
Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

{Keywords: piracy, situational awareness, maritime sovereignty, maritime safety, security or maritime transport, emerging security challenges, transport infrastructure, harbor protection, risk analysis, terrorism, counterterrorism, threats, risks, vulnerability, risk assessment, risk mitigation, risk management, Critical Infr

“You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be... the perfect storm.” So goes a classic line in one of the few great Hollywood fishing epics. The Perfect Storm finds fisherman George Clooney and his shipmates venturing out into dangerous waters and being trapped between two momentous and powerful storm fronts. Asset managers may well empathise.

On one front, ever more powerful regulation is blowing in, growing as it does. This regulation comes with eve

"Travel Alert-Travel Safe"

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Travel Alert-Travel Safe: 2011 Business Travel Threats

2010 was an eventful year for business travellers with new and varied events that caused delay, disruption and life safety concerns.

Join our global travel safety and security expert as he discusses:

• Key travel threats for 2011
• Industry and company trends
• Tips for the year ahead
• Questions from attendees

"Travel Alert-Travel Safe"

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The first thought paper, Embracing Enterprise Risk Management: Practical Approaches for Getting Started, developed by Mark Frigo and Richard Anderson of the Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation at DePaul University, describes how an organization can begin implementing an ERM process. It also examines perceived barriers to effective ERM and how to work through those barriers.  “Starting an ERM process is a daunting task for many organizations” said Anderson.  “The paper provides an actio

 Download a real-time generalized derivatives calculator supporting over 86 theoretical models from open source libraries.

Matrices of prices are created with iterating strikes and/or months. A strike control system can produce almost any strike. A generalized date engine can calculate re-occuring distances to any industry used expiration into the future. Timing is accurate to one second and pricing is re-calculated every second. 9 choices for computing the cumulative normal distribution. All in

In 2010, we witnessed 157 banks closed by the FDIC. They were either taken over by stronger hands or liquidated and depositors were given back their deposits. 

On this first Friday of the New Year,only two banks were shut down. According to the BlogSpot the Bank Blog: 

  “The "honor" of the first bank to fail in 2011 belongsto First Commercial Bank of Florida based in Orlando. …It had approximately $598.5 million in total assets and $529.6 million in total deposits was closed. First Southern Bank

US News and World Report had a recent feature “20 Companies that Cratered in 2010“.

Reading their article, I can only come up with four reasons why the 20 firms went bankrupt:

1. Overconcentration in the mortgage backed securities market.  (Ambac)
2. Failed to adapt to competition with a new approach to the business (Affiliated Media, Mareican Media, Penton Media, Blockbuster, Movie Gallery, Newsweek, Oriental Trading)
3. Insufficient New Products (Hummer, Mercury, Pontiac, MGM)
4. Insufficient resilience to rec

The economic crisis of the last few years has forced a renewed focus on the process of risk identification, management and mitigation at corporations across North America. Executives are taking a much closer look at their strategic risk management channels in order to formulate a more rigorous and effective Enterprise Risk Management programs. The interaction between executive management, the board of directors and company shareholders has presented numerous challenges and opportunities in the m

Today i discussed risk managemnt in commercial banks with head of PhD board of scientists in Kyrgyzstan. She found my research paper as a quite interesting direction of research, so i am a little bit satisfied.

Anyone who wants any advice in PhD can apply to me in KG :)

Tony Ridley

In spite of the considerable investment and development around the preservation of assets and the mitigation of risks across conventional corporate assets such as facilities, information, equipment and products, the same methodology and motivation remains far less advanced in regards to human capital.

Before any organization even explores risk management strategies for their human capital it is fundamentally important that they first determine the value at risk. Not only is it a case

Tony Ridley

Volcanos that erupt and disrupt the world’s travel plans don’t happen every day but travel disruptions and threats to travelers do. It often takes a dynamic or amplified event to display just how much planning and oversight goes into day-to-day risk management, in order to reveal just how ineffective the process may be overall.

Travel buyers have admitted that the volcano eruption in Iceland has taken a substantial bite out of their 2010 travel budget, if a new survey is to be believe

Tony Ridley

As a global business executive, I  know first hand the demands of travel. I spent more than 120 days out of the year on the road, and have supported the traveling workforces of clients every day. So how do I stay connected? Here are my thoughts on the best apps for  Android smart phones – a critical tool for helping me stay in touch and on top of things while traveling.

“Like most people I use my smart phone as both a communications tool and mini computer while traveling or on the road

nternational events such as major product launches, corporate meetings, annual or regular sporting events continue to fall outside the standard methodology and practices of risk and people risk management. Many organizations and individuals, also fail to anticipate or include this in travel risk management strategies for leisure or non-corporate travel.
The bigger the event; often the greater lack of oversight. Many organizations and planners have gotten themselves into what they cons

It certainly is cheaper and easier. But is it BETTER?

The main difference between lucky and smart is that smart is more likely to be able to repeat than luck.

But I think that there are two different types of smart, and one is much better than the other.

• The first type of smart is able to discern patterns and trends. This type of smart can do momentum trading. They figure out what worksin this phase of the cycle of the part of the world that they are in andthey discern how to take advantage of one

“Be Prepared” applies as much to a good disaster recovery plan as it has ever applied to the Boy Scouts. One aspect of the preparation involves the generation and verification of an up-to-date set of backup tapes. This article explains the TurboHercules mechanisms for keeping your backup tapes and backup machine up-to-date and ready to go in the event of an outage of your mainframe. Download the PDF

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