Credit Crunch Revisited
My last article on the subject was published as far back as 2009, but I was surprised to learn that I’m still getting more than 10 hits a week and…
Stop Press On Holiday
Sandro Boeri’s newsletter is on holiday until 4th August. Yesterday’s events in the Ukraine and Gaza cast an uneasy shadow on your author’s mindset as I reflect on the human…
Is HSBC The Only Clean Wealth Manager in Town?
UBS remains the world’s leading wealth management house with assets under management increasing by 15.4 per cent to $ 1.96 trillion. In terms of the world’s top 25 asset managers,…
Regulatory Madness
I recently had the pleasure of buying some motor insurance from one of the UK’s more exotic firms. The whole transaction took place on the telephone and lasted 45 minutes…
Think Outside The Suit
An interesting thought occurred to me on Friday. I was in the process of running a product governance controls course for a wealth internal audit team. We were reflecting on…
@RiskAudit twitters
Risk Audit Professional Development today launches its twitter facility. The idea was born at this week’s Global IIA conference as your author @sandro_boeri spent a fair amount of time exchange…
Three Lines of Defence = No Defence
We seem to have become obsessed with the concept of three lines of defence. If you can demonstrate to your regulators that you have such a framework they will breathe…
Goodbye Internal Auditors
Yesterday saw the second day of the Global Internal Auditors conference at the Excel Centre in London. Michael Woodford of Olympus fame was the keynote speaker sharing an insight into…
Auditing Culture
The CIIA UK used the launch of yesterday’s Global Institute of Internal Auditors conference in London to publish a report on the audit of culture. The following key aspects are…
Too Big to Be Managed?
Is it time for a degree of honesty in our dialogue? Do you work for an organisation that would answer “yes” to any of the following questions:- Are you running…