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There are a lot of events and anecdotes that risk managers can draw lessons from. September 11, Hurricane Katrina,  the financial crisis and the Gulf oil spill are the among the most oft-repeated.

But Pat Huddleston, former enforcement branch chief of the SEC’s enforcement division, has written an excellent article that looks to more unique sources, showing how risk managers can prevent fraud by learning from Super Bowl-winning QB Tom Brady, NFL legend John Elway and an actor best known for his r

Have you really got your companies operational risk framework in check? 

Managing oil prices is all about preserving margins - which airlines are doing it right?

According to Wikipedia, “Best practices can also be defined as the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results) way of accomplishing a task, based on repeatable procedures that have proven themselves over time for large numbers of people.”

There are best practices for identifying and mitigating reputation risk in different types of companies as well as best practices for managing reputation as an asset. Please note that not every environment or every company is the same. Y

Numerous studies including the Corporate Risk Barometer survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit a few years ago; have shown that the most significant issues facing business today are; reputation risk (defined as the threat of any event that can damage a company's reputation) and regulatory risk (defined as problems caused

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Progress on implementing the G20 Seoul resolve for strengthening global financial stability has recently been reported as being on track.

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If you’re considering automating your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program there are dozens of choices out there and choosing the one that’s best for your program can be challenging.

While many tools out there can document controls and test compliance, managing enterprise-wide governance, risk, and compliance is about much more.  It’s about adding measurable business value and contributing to the achievement of strategic goals.

To help you separate tools that have simply jumped on the bu

It contains articles:

1 - Leading Article: Your name is a Precious Commodity

2 - Thinking Quickly - A Quick Reframe

3 - Some Q & A

4 - Selected Articles of Interest & Concern

5 - Stakeholder Reputation Group on Linkedin

6 - Understanding Reputation Risk

7 - Stakeholder Engagement Social Media Style

8 - Upcoming Training & Speaking events

Access it online: http://mim.io/584301 - Please let me know what you think of it.

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The purpose of the presentation is to look at some of the key hurdles for Basel III but from a counterparty risk perspective.

Key areas which have been covered include some of the following:

» Understand how new requirements of Basel III impact counterparty risk.
» Gain insight into the hurdles for Asian Local Banks & Foreign Banks in Asia.
» Review how the key phases and causal factors of the Global Financial Crisis have been translated into Basel III requirements in the context of Counterparty R

An organization-wide risk appetite can be a powerful statement that gives your risk or compliance program direction.  However, like any policy, risk appetite without accompanying action is nothing more than an idea.

So how do you give your risk appetite teeth?  How do you make it an actionable guide for your organization?

Here are five recommendations to put your risk appetite into practice.

1. Translate risk appetite to the process level.

Every day your front-line managers are making operational de