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Risk committee articles

Articles and feature and from the ICAEW on the work and responsibilities of the risk committee

Displaying 1-26 of 26 results
Boards must seek assurance on supply chain security
  • Jan 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
A new report paints a stark picture of the potential fallout for businesses and consumers from supply chain disruption, including empty shelves, damaged reputations and business losses.
Boards must be more cyber savvy, says report
  • Sep 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Low levels of cyber expertise among board members and an overt deference towards jargon-focused CISOs cited as key vulnerabilities in corporate governance.
Businesses must take action to weather geopolitical storms
  • Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
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 role of boards in managing risk
  • Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
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.
How businesses approach fraud risk: the audit committee view
  • Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
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.
A scenario planning guide for boards
  • Oct 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
To conduct rich and engaging strategic conversations with the executive team in a world of deep uncertainties and surprises, boards are helped by using scenario planning.
How scenarios help navigate an uncertain world
  • Oct 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Running the Shell Scenarios team from 2006 to 2022, Jeremy Bentham played a key role in identifying the risks and opportunities facing the energy giant.
Talk of progress on ethnic board representation ‘premature’
  • Jul 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Targets set out by Parker Review for ethnic minority representation on boards risk being a tick-box exercise, experts warn.
VOLUNTEERING COMMUNITY What to include in your charity’s investment policy?
  • May 2022
  • Heather Lamont
  • Volunteering Community Newsletter
Why it’s important to get clear about your income and capital growth expectations, express your board’s risk appetite with a quantified risk budget and to communicate your priorities clearly to asset managers.
Boards, strategic risk and dealing with uncertainty: looking at scenario planning
  • Mar 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Now more than ever boards need to prepare for strategic risks and look beyond short-term forecasts by using long-term scenario planning and risk modelling.
Exclusive FSF INSURANCE Crime, regulation and technology are top of the mind for insurance company Chief Risk Officers
  • Jan 2022
  • Zsuzsanna Schif
  • Insurance Focus
ICAEW’s Zsuzsanna Schiff looks at the results of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) and PwC’s 2021 Insurance Banana Skins.
Exclusive Practical guide to TCFD
  • Jan 2022
Sharing some practical tips to help you start implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY How should boards harness risk management to ensure future resilience?
  • Sep 2021
  • Sarah Gordon
The ability to not only survive but thrive in uncertain conditions is increasingly the understanding of what is meant by organisational resilience.
Exclusive Archegos and Credit Suisse risk management lessons
  • Jun 2021
  • Laura Miller
Laura Miller considers the risk management lessons from the leveraged loans to collapsed private family office Archegos.
Why and how to revise your risk management
  • Jul 2020
In the wake of COVID-19, committee chairs should ensure risk committees have the skills and experience to deal with the unexpected.
Exclusive TECH FACULTY Cyber security for boards
  • Apr 2020
  • Kirstin Gillon
Board support has long been recognised as vital to achieving good cyber security. But boards have often struggled to have good conversations with cyber security specialists and understand their risks around cyber.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Five questions director should ask about climate risk
  • Dec 2019
  • Julia Root-Gutteridge
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Climate change and sustainability has been placed firmly in the spotlight of media and society’s attention. Focus is now turning even more to the business world to play its part.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Taking risk on board
  • Oct 2019
  • Hanif Barma
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Businesses and organisations today find themselves operating in a highly volatile and ambiguous world.
Exclusive How has risk management changed since the crisis
  • Mar 2019
  • Peter Neville Lewis
  • FS Focus
A decade on from the financial crisis in 2008, there are still no coherent guidelines for risk in financial services. Peter Neville Lewis looks at the challenges and provides answers.
Exclusive The secret senior manager
  • Oct 2016
  • Secret Senior Manager
  • FS Focus
What does the Secret Senior Manager have to say to the board about the Senior Managers and Certification Regime?
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY How can internal audit assess business continuity and crisis management plans?
  • Aug 2016
  • Mark Stock
PwC’s Mark Stock looks at the important role that internal audit can play in helping businesses to prepare for the unexpected.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY Resilience – more than a buzz word?
  • Aug 2016
  • Mark Stock
PwC’s Mark Stock highlights how internal auditors are in a unique position to review how effectively an organisation can respond to change.
Exclusive FINANCIAL SERVICES FACULTY Better boardroom behaviour
  • Oct 2013
  • Dawn Cowie
  • FS Focus
Boards of directors are under pressure to scrutinise the risks, leadership and values of the financial institutions they oversee in more detail. Dawn Cowie looks at whether their approach is changing.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Part 2 - internal audit for directors
  • Sep 2012
  • Mark Stock
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
In the second part of this series, Mark Stock now considers some questions that boards and audit committees might ask about their internal audit and compliance functions.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Part 1 – internal audit for directors
  • Sep 2012
  • Mark Stock
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
In this first of two articles, which considers questions that a board director might ask of their organisation’s compliance and internal audit functions, Mark Stock starts with a reminder of the three lines of defence (3LD) model.
Exclusive FINANCIAL SERVICES FACULTY Thinking outside the box: Independence should not mean impotence
  • Jun 2010
  • PDF (49kb)
  • Neil Holden | Christopher Hall
  • FS Focus
Neil Holden and Christopher Hall argue for a new approach to corporate governance
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