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At idRisk we believe that for those involved in the risk industry knowledge and information sharing is a necessity. For this reason we have posted a number of extremely high quality research papers for our clients benefit.

Integrated Compliance Management
'Turning an obligation and an expense into an opportunity and a value'.
Produced by idRisk Associate Consultants, led by Chris Kind and John Sherwood, this paper considers compliance against the background of increasing rafts of laws, regulations and guidelines on how businesses should govern themselves and manage their risks. It also proposes Integrated Compliance Management as a practical way forward compatible with an Enterprise Risk Management approach.
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Compliance Regulation Research Findings
Compliance Regulation Research Findings from a series of open discussions investigating the issues and challenges shared by individuals responsible for compliance regulation within UK financial services companies. These findings are summarised by Adara Research and undertaken on behalf of idRisk Limited, Nimbus Partners and Applix create link to idRisk Partners page.
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Crisis Management: Combating the Denial Syndrome
This article, by David Davies, describes the psychological processes that affect the teams assembled to manage their companys response to a major crisis. It describes the search for a way to combat those processes and in doing so it highlights two characteristics that are common to the way in which crises are handled; Group Think and The Denial Curve.
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Facing up to the issues in implementing Basel II
Produced by Sherwood Associates Limited, an idRisk associate consultancy, this outlines many of the important issues raised by the implementation of the New Basel Accord. Additionally, it provides an overview and a high-level tutorial on Basel II and its background.
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It's not just Viruses
The most apparent form of information risk is created by viruses and vulnerability alerts. In this article, David Biggins writes that these are known and relatively static problems. He argues that information risk is not just a technical issue but that human nature is a key factor too and that if an information risk policy is to be at all effective, it must cover every aspect of a company's operation.
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AIRMIC Risk Management Standard
This Risk Management Standard is theresult of work by a team drawn from themajor risk management organisations inthe UK - The Institute of RiskManagement (IRM), The Association ofInsurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC)and ALARM The National Forum forRisk Management in the Public Sector.
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SABSA Enterprise Security Architecture
SABSA (TM) is a methodology for developing enterprise information security architectures and for delivering security infrastructure solutions thatsupport critical business initiatives. This white paper explores the advantages of this business-focused model for creating security architecture. It discusses the pitfalls of a technology-centric approach, and recognises the challenges of integrating the business leaders with the technologystrategists in order to fulfill the potential of the enterprise.
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HSE Publishes Guidance On Work-Related Road Safety
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published free guidance on work-related road safety aimed at any employer, manager or supervisor with staff who drive or ride a motorcycle or bicycle at work. Driving at work: Managing work - related road safety has been produced in partnership with the Department for Transport and alerts employers and the self-employed to the fact that their responsibilities under current health and safety law extend to driving at work. It contains generic advice on managing work-related road safety effectively and on integrating it into existing health and safety arrangements.
Free guidance for employers with staff who drive or ride a motorcycle or bicycle at work. - PDF - 233 KB

Reputation - The Cinderella Asset
The insurance industry, and most of the risk management specialists that feed off it, have long promoted the idea that reputation risk is triggered by catastrophic events that happen despite the organisation's best efforts. In insurance terms, these are primarily product contamination or product extortion, the only areas for which very limited insurance cover is available. However, such events are but the tip of the iceberg that is the greatest risk facing organisations today. Article written by David Davies.
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Dealing with the Creeping Crisis
Dealing with the creeping crisis: Avoiding corporate death by a thousand cuts
David Davies describes how preparing for a reputation related crisis is often assumed that the crisis will be sudden and dramatic and that it will immediately strike you with full force. However, whilst it may suddenly flare up, often it will have been developing almost unnoticed for some time. If you can spot the crisis before it reaches the tipping point, it can give you enormous advantages, one of which is the relative size of the crisis - rather like dealing with a minor fire compared with a well-seated conflagration.
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Reputation Risk Management - A Holistic Approach
The melt down of Arthur Andersen clearly demonstrates the amount of damage that can be done to an organisation once its reputation is damaged. It is particularly significant because the more diverse and physically spread an organisation is, the more it becomes immune to physical, political and economic risks, and yet the more it becomes exposed to the possibility and consequences of damaging its reputation. However, the risk of reputation damage is not confined to the multinational - it can harm organisations of all sizes and activities. Despite this, it is the most misunderstood and therefore ill-managed of many companies' risk management activities. Article written by David Davies.
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