All Risk Management articles – Page 126
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Unified VRM Now Offers Advanced Task and Workflow Automation
NopSec, a provider of vulnerability risk management and remediation solutions, has announced the latest version of its Unified VRM platform to help security professionals rapidly reduce remediation time through enhanced workflow automation and risk reporting. More inside.
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OCEG Releases Red Book 3.0
OCEG, a non-profit global think tank that publishes the GRC Capability Model (Red Book) has announced the availability of version 3.0 of these standards for integrated governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) capabilities. OCEG has also updated the GRC Professional Certification exam and GRC Fundamentals on-demand training and has made ...
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Latest Version of AvePoint Compliance Guardian Mitigates Security Risk
AvePoint, a governance, compliance and management solutions provider, has introduced the latest release of AvePoint Compliance Guardian. AvePoint Compliance Guardian provides unified risk management from the moment data is created through its entire lifecycle, proactively monitoring and neutralizing violations of privacy, security, and compliance. More inside.
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Equinix Selects ACL to Drive Operational Risk Management
ACL, an audit, compliance and risk management solutions provider, recently announced that Equinix has implemented ACL GRC and ACL Analytics across the organization to streamline communication and reporting between different departments. Several teams, including business assurance services, enterprise risk management, and compliance, will use the ACL platform to support a ...
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Matrix-Exzac Launches Financial Risk Advisory Group
Matrix-Exzac, a global provider of financial crime prevention and compliance solutions and services announces the formation of a new subsidiary, Exzac Financial Risk Advisory. The newly created group will be led by John Grannis, who recently served as a member of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Risk Management Supervision ...
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AeroTurbine Selects Amber Road to Enhance Restricted Party Screening Protections
Amber Road, a provider of global trade management solutions (GTM), announced that AeroTurbine, a global aviation company specializing in supply chain management solutions, has selected the Amber Road restricted party screening (RPS) solution to upgrade its compliance processes. Details inside.
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Socialware Unveils Social Access Control Solution
Socialware, a provider of social media risk management solutions for the enterprise, has announced the availability of its Social Access Control solution. Complementing Socialware’s existing solutions for regulated users in financial services, Social Access Control gives firms in any industry the ability to place controls around which social network features ...
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand Contracts With Wynyard
Software provider Wynyard Group announced today that it has won a new contract with The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to provide Wynyard risk management software. RBNZ is New Zealand's central bank, responsible for operating monetary policy to maintain stable prices and assisting the functioning of the country's financial ...
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MetricStream Offers GRC Cloud Business Intelligence Offering
MetricStream, a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management apps provider, this week announced a new offering: GRC Cloud Business Intelligence with Tableau. The new offering will enable MetricStream cloud customers to transform their raw risk and compliance data into on-demand analytics and actionable risk intelligence that can facilitate quicker and ...
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Grant Thornton Grows Financial Services Advisory Practice
Paul Makowski has joined Grant Thornton as a managing director in the firm’s national Financial Services Advisory practice. Most recently, Makowski served as interim chief risk officer for the Mortgage division of BB&T. Details inside.
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ProcessUnity Enhances Cloud-based Apps for GRC Management
ProcessUnity, a provider of cloud-based applications for governance, risk and compliance management, recently announced the unveiling of new features and enhancements across 24 key application areas—all designed to expand data access, eliminate manual processes, and ensure overall program and user effectiveness. Details inside.
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Squeezed: Banks Have No Easy Path on De-Risking
Image: Money service businesses, bitcoin startups, marijuana shops; the population of high-risk customers in the banking world is surging. Regulators have sent conflicting messages about wholesale de-risking of certain sectors, and that can force painful questions about how to build effective, and extensive, due diligence programs. “Regulators are talking from ...
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Taming Vendor Risks Continues to Flummox Compliance Programs
Image: Vendor risks driving you crazy? Well, you are not alone. In a recent survey compliance and audit professionals gave their vendor risk management programs an overall score of only 2.8 on a 1 to 5 scale. Thankfully, corporate boardrooms are paying more attention now. “It’s risen to a level ...
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Deloitte Acquires CIS to Expand Compliance Services for Life Sciences, Healthcare Industries
Deloitte this week announced that it has acquired Compliance Implementation Services (CIS), a life sciences compliance consulting firm. CIS will join Deloitte Advisory, a risk and financial advisory practice, as part of its regulatory compliance market offering. Effective immediately, the business will operate as “CIS by Deloitte." Details inside.
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Exiger Adds Managing Director
EXIGER, a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has appointed Christopher Prather as managing director at EXIGER Advisory, EXIGER’s specialized consulting division, which executes the firm’s monitoring assignments and delivers sustainable governance, risk management and regulatory compliance consulting services to financial institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and ...
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Canada AML Study Finds Compliance Gaps
A first-of-its-kind survey on Canadian compliance professionals conducted by Grant Thornton finds significant weaknesses in the AML compliance practices of Canadian companies. Among the findings: many compliance staff are not consistently visiting their overseas locations and rarely tailor their AML training programs to the specific needs of different groups, particularly ...
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Compliance Officers as Strategic Partners
Lots of people talk about the compliance function as crucial to business strategy today, but gaps remain: According to one PwC survey of chief executives, 78 percent of CEOs say overregulation is the top threat to growing their business; at the same time, only 35 percent of CCOs in PwC’s ...
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MetricStream, Everbridge Partner to Provide Disaster Recovery Service
MetricStream, a GRC Management Apps provider, this week announced that it is integrating MetricStream's Business Continuity Management (BCM) App with the Everbridge Unified Critical Communications platform to provide users with an integrated communication management capability that supports the end-to-end disaster recovery process. More inside.
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OCC: Cyber-Security Priorities for 2015
Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry last week provided an overview of the top cyber-security priorities that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will be focusing on for the remainder of 2015. These priorities include the release of a new cyber-security assessment tool that financial institutions can use ...