March 31, 2008

Audit Integrity, Leading Researchers on Corporate Risk, Announces *Top 100 Firms as Best in Corporate Integrity*

By: Audit Integrity

Honoring the US corporations with the highest ratings for integrity in 2007, Audit Integrity today made public the second annual Audit Integrity Top 100 report. As experts in risk analysis on public companies, Audit Integrity...

March 28, 2008

Publication of Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) Land and Sea Final Rule, Questions and Answers

By: Department of Homeland Security

The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) will require all travelers to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda who have historically been exempt from passport requirements, to present a passport or other...

March 27, 2008

Sub-prime crisis highlights need for Enterprise-wide approach to risk management

By: Datamonitor

Sup-prime crisis exacerbated by over-reliance on modelling and silo structures preventing aggregation of enterprise risk

March 18, 2008

Help Available to Assess IT Risks

By: The Institute of Internal Auditors

The IIA releases the second and third guides in the GAIT series; survey identifies need to address PCAOB/SEC revisions and business/IT risk linkage

March 10, 2008

Senior Supervisors Group Issues Report on Risk Management Practices

By: US Office of Comptroller of the Currency

March 10, 2008

WASHINGTON — Senior financial supervisors from five countries today issued a report that assesses a range of risk management practices among a sample of major global financial services...

March 10, 2008

Fact Sheet: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Five-Year Anniversary Progress and Priorities

By: Department of Homeland Security

There is no parallel in government to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) start-up five years ago, and the degree of maturity it has reached in the short period since. The department's growth is testament to its 208,000...

March 7, 2008

Rebuilding a Community: Lessons from New Orleans

By: Kenneth M. Reardon, Cornell University

Communities & Banking – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

March 3, 2008

Spread of bird flu strains slowed at some borders

By: University of California

Study Results Detail H5N1 Migration, Provide Means to Measure Intervention Success

March 3, 2008

Fact Sheet: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement

By: Department of Homeland Security

Each day at America’s ports of entry CBP officers inspect more than 1.1 million travelers, including 340,000 vehicles and over 85,000 shipments of goods approved for entry; process more than 70,000 truck, rail and sea containers;...

February 15, 2008

Corporate Pension Plans Are Being Reevaluated, The Conference Board Reports in New Analysis

By: The Conference Board

With 77 million baby boomers headed for retirement, nearly every facet of corporate pension plans will be subject to analysis and change. The decline in defined benefit plans and the rise in defined contribution plans — combined...