During this year’s American Banker and Risk Management Association’s 13th Annual Small Business Banking Conference on October 26-28 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, we’ll focus on Communicating the Value – Positioning Our Message, and Delivering the Promise for the banking industry, as a whole, and for individual banks.

The Credit Department Management Forum focuses on structuring, organizing, and effectively managing the credit function. The session is presented from a managerial and operational perspective and helps increase efficiency when organizing credit responsibilities. Concepts of functional structure, service quality, and the use of technology are included in the discussions. continue reading

A looming economic downturn, the recent interest rate cycle, and the subprime crisis present unique risk management challenges facing many institutions today.

The original industry-wide conference, sponsored and developed by securities lending and borrowing professionals for securities lending and borrowing professionals, is celebrating its 25th ANNIVERSARY Conference. This year's co-chairs are Diane Shew, Head of Securities Lending Trading, Americas, Barclays Global Investors and Rory Zirpolo, Managing Director, Credit Suisse.

Upon completion of this course, attendees will understand how to effectively meet the requirements of risk management for medical devices, pharmaceutical and biologics products and processes. Emphasis is placed on the effective use of resources in a production and quality system environment by developing strategies based on risk. continue reading

The turmoil in the financial markets will reorganize the financial landscape. But this does not mean the financial industry will shrink dramatically. In fact the current crisis could well lead to an increase in the demand for financial services, as the world grapples with the need for new financial instruments, new risk management techniques, and the increasing complexity of the financial world.

FDA has asked Cephalon to implement enhancements to the risk management program for Fentora before the agency can approve the drug for noncancer breakthrough pain. Fentora is an opioid that is already marketed as a treatment for cancer.

B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that CAMA™ the corporate actions system produced by Information Mosaic has achieved the B.I.S.S. 2008 CA Accreditation in all three market sectors of Asset Manager, Broker/Dealer and Custodian.

The downward slide of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, culminating in this weekend's stunning announcements, seems like more evidence of the poor quality of risk management on Wall Street — alongside Bear Stearns' failure, the $7 billion loss caused by a rogue trader at Société Générale, and the loading up on mortgage-backed securities by virtually every major U.S. bank.

UK firms should put workable processes to prevent misuse of data when trying to reduce risk to information storage, it has been claimed. Ian Fraser, marketing manager at the Institute of Risk Management, said processes need to include provisions for remote workers and contractors as there are likely to be security risks outside the main function of a firm.

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guard against the possibility that a counterparty on the other side of a derivatives trade fails, a new report says.

Nearly two-thirds of the 32 buy-side firms surveyed by consultancy Tabb Group said the credit crunch has had a significant impact on their trading of over-the-counter derivatives, with 57% saying it has increased their focus on counterparty risk.

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Thomson Reuters released new enhancements to its proven enterprise-wide risk management system Kondor Global Risk, version 3.5. The new enhancements were unveiled at SIBOS 2008, taking place in Vienna this week, and allow financial institutions to effectively manage and control their real-time credit risk, market risk exposures and limits.
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A local authority is to work with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to promote a series of ten principles it claims are central to sensible risk management.

Harrogate borough council will work with the watchdog to try and dispel a number of the myths surrounding health and safety.

The partnership was launched at a new, £60,000 park in the town.
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The Dow plunged more than 500 points on Monday as news of a bankruptcy at Lehman Brothers, the emergency sale of Merrill Lynch and rumors of more trouble at American International Group, one of the world’s biggest insurers, sent investors running for cover. continue reading