Data often represents a credit union’s lifeblood — its most valuable asset, so to speak. A financial institution’s data may be directly linked to mission-critical operations, ROI, and overall profitability. Credit unions collect a diverse variety of data points, including personal data and financial data. These data types can be quite valuable and members of… Continue reading How to Evaluate and Choose a Data Privacy Management Solution for Your Credit Union
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IT Governance and ITIL Framework for Investment Banks and Brokerage Firms
Investment banks and brokerage firms are subject to strict legal and regulatory oversight, which means these companies must implement measures to ensure that their technology meets all of the established guidelines. Enter IT governance and ITIL frameworks for investment banks and brokerage firms. But when it comes to ITIL frameworks and IT governance software solutions,… Continue reading IT Governance and ITIL Framework for Investment Banks and Brokerage Firms
How to Build a Business Case for Implementing Enterprise Risk Management Software?
Enterprise risk management software can be a challenging sell when it comes to convincing company leadership, stakeholders, and other decision-makers to make an investment in this technology. You’re dealing with a threat or vulnerability that, to date, hasn’t caused any major issues and so, there is the hope that the status quo will prevail and… Continue reading How to Build a Business Case for Implementing Enterprise Risk Management Software?
How to Evaluate the Return on Investment for ERM?
Enterprise risk management software — or ERM — has gained an ever-increasing amount of popularity amongst companies in all industries and business sectors in recent years. Many point to the COVID-19 pandemic as the primary impetus for the rise of enterprise risk management software, alongside technologies such as the cloud, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and… Continue reading How to Evaluate the Return on Investment for ERM?
Policy Management Tools and Technologies for Credit Unions: A Comprehensive Guide
Financial institutions such as credit unions and banks are tasked with maintaining extremely strict policies and operational protocols. This uniformity and standardization make it far more difficult for “insiders” to commit crimes such as theft and fraud. But actually implementing and maintaining these policies, processes, and protocols is much easier said than done. Enter: policy… Continue reading Policy Management Tools and Technologies for Credit Unions: A Comprehensive Guide
How to Budget for Enterprise Risk Management Implementation?
Enterprise risk management software has seen increasing popularity in recent years and for good reason. Many business leaders seriously re-evaluated their company’s risk management strategy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic — an event that laid bare countless vulnerabilities and risk factors. Before the days of the COVID-19 pandemic, these risks, vulnerabilities, and threats were unrealized or… Continue reading How to Budget for Enterprise Risk Management Implementation?
Why Financial Services Companies Need a Robust Third-Party Risk Management Solution
Financial services companies are amongst the most highly-targeted type of business when it comes to the criminal element, including cybercrime. Businesses operating within the financial space are also highly vulnerable to regulatory compliance-related challenges, which translate into some very serious — and costly — third-party risk management and mitigation issues. For a financial services company,… Continue reading Why Financial Services Companies Need a Robust Third-Party Risk Management Solution
The Link Between ESG Performance and Financial Performance: A Data-Driven Analysis
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of companies that are placing great emphasis on ESG — environmental, social, and governance issues. It’s a mainstream movement that showcases a company’s commitment to and alignment with socially progressive and pro-environment ethics and values. But simply implementing and deploying ESG initiatives within your organization… Continue reading The Link Between ESG Performance and Financial Performance: A Data-Driven Analysis
How Investment Banks and Brokerage Firms Can Incorporate ESG Investment Strategies Into Their Overall Investment Approach
The financial sector has a broad and multifaceted risk management landscape where environmental social governance (ESG) principles reign with great prominence. The ever-increasing emphasis on environmental and social governance issues has prompted investment banks and brokerage firms to incorporate ESG investment banking strategies into their overarching investment strategy. The objective: highlighting organizations that exemplify their… Continue reading How Investment Banks and Brokerage Firms Can Incorporate ESG Investment Strategies Into Their Overall Investment Approach
Streamlining Banking Risk Management: The Benefits of Implementing a Risk Management Software
Of all business sectors and industries, business leaders in the financial sector and banking space are confronted with some of the most complex risk management considerations. Banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial service providers are frequently targeted by criminals — especially cybercriminals — due to the many areas of vulnerability that exist within banks… Continue reading Streamlining Banking Risk Management: The Benefits of Implementing a Risk Management Software