As the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches, Chartered IIA is urging business leaders to prepare for further geopolitical incidents as global pressures rise.

The raft of risks facing a business are more complex, interrelated, and fast-moving than ever before. Good risk management, therefore, is key to helping organisations thrive – not just survive. We examine how boards can help their organisations manage risk more effectively and foster resilience in such uncertain times.

What are the key factors behind the emergence of fraud risks and how should organisations ensure their controls are fit for purpose? Two experienced audit committee chairs provide their thoughts.

Targets set out by Parker Review for ethnic minority representation on boards risk being a tick-box exercise, experts warn.

This report expands our examination to audit committees in a further six EU countries, spread across the centre and south, with various corporate governance traditions and different sized capital markets – namely Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands and Portugal.

Assurance maps can be a powerful tool providing great insights for boards, senior management and audit committees. Here the Audit and Assurance Faculty explores the concept of assurance maps and the benefits to various stakeholders.

Based on in-depth interviews with audit committee members in seven CEE countries, this report draws out insights on how audit committees are working, how they are having an impact and how they view the future. It provides insights into some of the common challenges still remaining at a time when the role of audit committees is expanding, largely driven by the introduction of new statutory requirements

The ICAEW published the report Audit of banks: lessons from the crisis in June 2010 and committed to produce good practice guidance to enhance the dialogue between bank auditors and their audit committees. This report sets out that guidance. It considers ‘dialogue’ in its broadest sense, covering the fundamentals of a good auditor/audit committee relationship, the structuring of meetings throughout the audit cycle, and the content and style of reporting to the audit committee.

An analysis of audit committee reporting

This report is intended as a timely contribution to debate about how risk reporting should evolve. It reviews both the general experience of risk reporting to date and the risk reporting of financial institutions before the crisis, considers why risk reporting is thought to have been disappointing (Chapter 3), and suggests ways to improve it.

In this webinar we will cover three challenges for committees, and practical suggestions for how to work more effectively and efficiently.

Ian Foxley, whistleblower and Dino Bossi, Addveritas share their views on the benefits of whistleblowing and the system that should be in place to support people.

ICSA guidance note updated in June 2013 which provides 'model terms of reference for the risk committee of a company and is particularly relevant to banks and other financial institutions (BOFIs).' It 'draws on the experience of company secretaries and is based on best practice as carried out in some of the UK’s largest listed companies.'

Principles-based guidance for board risk committees and risk functions in the UK financial services sector from the Risk Coalition.

Principles-based guidance for board risk committees and risk functions in the UK financial services sector.

KPMG Board Leadership Centre guidance and resources to help risk committee members navigate the risk landscape