Microsoft's Perspective on Risk & Compliance
Reflections about Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)
Jeff Jinnett: April, 2011 Update - GRC White Papers, Books, Webcasts and Blogs of Some Microsoft Partners
Microsoft has an extensive ecosystem of ISVs and systems integration partners with offerings in the...
Date: 04/14/2011
Leading global bank adopts Microsoft partner FinArch for its Liquidity Risk Solutions
New Liquidity risk frameworks as well as Stress tests were in my top 10 list for 2011. Many leading...
Date: 03/16/2011
Jeff Jinnett: GRC White Papers, Online Articles and Blogs of Some Microsoft Partners
Microsoft has an extensive ecosystem of software and systems integration partners with offerings in...
Date: 10/02/2010
Sai Sireesh: Key Findings - Future State of Risk 2010 Survey
In my previous blog, I broadly covered the release of the “Future State of Risk 2010”...
Date: 09/20/2010
Sai Sireesh: Future State of Risk & Compliance 2010 - Global Benchmark Survey
Today, September 8, 2010, PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association) and Microsoft...
Date: 09/08/2010
Jeff Jinnett: SEC Adopts Final Rule on Proxy Nominations for Board of Directors
My June 29th blog posting on this topic noted the Dodd-Frank legislation authorizes the SEC to issue...
Date: 08/31/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Framework for Designing Applications for Microsoft Surface®
Microsoft Surface® is a table-top computer that responds to natural hand movements and...
Date: 08/04/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Dodd-Frank Act - The Devil’s in the Details and Fasten Your Seatbelts
Now that the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (the Dodd-Frank legislation or...
Date: 07/21/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Amendments to U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines as to What Constitutes an Effective Compliance and Ethics Program, to Take Effect on November 1, 2010
On April 7, 2010, the United States Sentencing Commission[i] voted to modify the U. S. Federal...
Date: 06/15/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Towards a Structured GRC Taxonomy
Although governance, risk management and compliance laws and regulations may vary greatly depending...
Date: 06/01/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Prepare for Coming HITECH Act Healthcare Privacy & Security Audits
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act[i], signed into law...
Date: 05/17/2010
Sai Sireesh: Next generation Communication Compliance
The explosion in information channels, and increasing use of Web 2.0 and social media poses new...
Date: 05/07/2010
Jeff Jinnett: Open Text Content Day in New York City
On April 21, 2010, I participated as a speaker at the Open Text Content Day, which was held at the...
Date: 05/03/2010
Sai Sireesh: Get Ready for Stress Testing using Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Architecture!
Risk Managers are going to be busy with the fresh wave of stress testing requirements. Most...
Date: 04/26/2010
Jeff Jinnett: The Film “The Hurt Locker” as the “I Ching” for Today’s CIO
Quote from the film “You’ve Got Mail” (Tom Hanks as “Joe Fox” to Meg Ryan as “Kathleen Kelly” as she...
Date: 04/19/2010
Sai Sireesh: Business Analytics at the Speed of Thought: The Next Game Changer!
I always look forward to interactions with Finance/Risk Microsoft Excel power users. Most times it’s...
Date: 04/08/2010
Council on Litigation Management (CLM) Annual Conference-a report from Jeff Jinnett
On March 25th, I participated in a panel presentation entitled “The Evidence Lifecycle Management...
Date: 04/05/2010
Semi-Automation of Compliance Processes: A UML Approach - insight from Jeff Jinnett
It has been estimated that 55 percent of the cost of any compliance program is due to staffing and...
Date: 03/22/2010
Technology Issues Related to the Proposed New York Insurance Exchange - thoughts from Jeff Jinnett
New York State is currently considering the creation by 2011 of a new insurance exchange. It would...
Date: 03/08/2010
Failure to Upgrade Software Systems as a Potential Regulatory Risk - thoughts from Jeff Jinnett
In the current highly regulated, but intensively competitive banking environment, many banks are...
Date: 02/22/2010
Future State of Financial and Regulatory Reporting - thoughts from Sai Sireesh
As the deadline for IFRS adoption gets closer and IFRS projects gather momentum in the industry,...
Date: 02/15/2010
Regulatory Oversight & Compliance of Blogs and Social Networking - Sai Sireesh
Recently there are some interesting compliance related developments from two self regulatory bodies,...
Date: 01/28/2010
Analysis using "Pivot" - a preview by Jeff Jinnett
Microsoft Live Labs recently introduced a private access beta version of the “Pivot” tool leveraging...
Date: 01/17/2010
Microsoft’s Compliance and Risk Process Management Pack and IT Compliance Library - an update from Sai Sireesh
Last week was extremely exciting for our team. Our focus on simpler, faster and cost effective...
Date: 12/10/2009
Visualization Challenge: Use of 3-D Virtual Environments to Portray GRC Issues - Jeff Jinnett
One challenge facing chief risk officers, chief compliance officers and other c-level officers of...
Date: 12/07/2009
10 Steps for Effective Risk Management and Compliance - from the desk of Sai Sireesh
My 18 years experience has taught me one thing - Risk Management and Compliance initiatives by...
Date: 12/02/2009
Federal Preemption in the Area of Data Security Breach Laws - an update from Jeff Jinnett
As we have noted in previous postings on this weblog, there appears to be an increasing trend toward...
Date: 10/26/2009
Jeff Jinnett: The Nimble Approach to Compliance: Multi-Purpose IT Solutions and “Nexialist” Compliance Attorneys
Regulatory compliance has become an increasingly costly burden. For example, SIFMA has estimated...
Date: 10/04/2009
Susan Hauser, VP of Microsoft Financial Services, on New Challenges in Risk Management and Compliance
As the global economic crisis rumbles on, financial firms of all kinds anticipate an overhaul of...
Date: 09/26/2009
Jeff Jinnett: Value of an IT Security Due Diligence Document/Risk Mitigation Plan
If a company were ever asked to describe its IT security program, the company likely would have to...
Date: 08/31/2009