With the world's banks bleeding from their over-exposure to bone-headed investments and bad loans, the latest hot job is the Chief Risk Officer.Bank of America, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, J.P....

Phishing. E-bank theft. Spoofing. Botnets.All terms describing different forms of cybercrime. Some good details in this piece of research from Stan Kratchman, Jacob Smith and L. Murphy Smith from the...

With the Rockefellers, the founding family behind ExxonMobil, embarrassing the company by calling for Rex Tillerson to hand over part of his responsibilities as both chairman and chief executive and...

Nearly $240 million in reported losses from Internet crime, up $40 million from last year, according to figures reported to the FBI.The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a joint venture between the...

Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at the massive impact that climate change will have on the financial services sector, particularly the banks.Now, global law firm Winston & Strawn...

How will global warming shape our world 20 years from now?There will be massive changes.First, it will be a world where companies will have to pay for the right to pollute. That means there will be a...

Climate change ranks as the biggest business risk, says Ernst & Young.According to Ernst & Young's Strategic Business Risk Insurance 2008, the changing weather patterns brought on by...

Climate change will affect all facets of the financial services industry and all classes of investing. For investors and finance companies, it presents significant risks. It's likely to have a...

Companies are taking a very slack approach to managing fraud risk, according to the latest research by risk consultants Protiviti.The research, published here, shows that only 49 per cent of...

Further evidence that businesses and politicians are struggling to come up up with a way of dealing with climate change and the risk it presents to to society, and business.First, we have the...

Fascinating figures out last week showing that Russia had eclipsed China as the world's biggest producer of malware. The US comes in at number three.As Joe Telafici writes in this latest McAfee...

With a top adviser warning the Australian Government that climate change is developing faster and more dangerously than previously anticipated, it's worth looking at how business leaders and...

The fallout from the Société Générale implosion continues. Bloomberg reports that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the bank's long-term counterparty credit rating cut one level to AA-...

Where do security leaks and IT disasters come from? Look no further than the IT department.According to a recent study by London-based security company Orthus, IT departments are responsible for 30...

In the past, I have written about how to build a resilient organization. The problem with risk management in many organizations is that they don't know how to pull it all together and incorporate...

In the past I have raised the question of whether China is headed for a slowdown. It's one of the big issues for 2008 and the answer is important for businesses and economies around the world,...

Some sobering reading from McAfee about this year's biggest IT disaster zones.McAfee's Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008 tells us to watch out for botnets piggybacking on Storm Worm, the...

The threat of bird flu has dropped off the radar - thus far, avian influenza has killed just over 200 people worldwide with about half occurring in Indonesia - but that doesn't mean the pandemic...

So what are the big trends to watch out for in 2008. According to a raft of surveys that came out before Christmas, reported here, the global credit crunch, tougher economic conditions and the chase...

Will Osama Bin Laden be caught in 2008? Will George Bush pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby? The prediction markets are already taking bets. But predicting the future is not what it used to be....