After the House and Senate failed to agree on a few key provisions of the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, Congress extended the existing 1996 law for one year until a compromise can be reached.
With only five days to go before the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) was set to expire at year's end, President Bush signed into law legislation that reauthorizes the federal backstop for another seven years. The legislation extends coverage for acts of domestic terrorism, in addition to foreign acts of...
QUMAS Ltd. has introduced its GRC Suite, which provides risk management software integrated with document and business process management, interactive dashboards and advanced reporting capabilities for real-time governance. The product allows companies to model and assess their risk environment, actively manage documents and monitor processes in accordance with multiple compliance...
The $5.7 billion, broker of exchange-listed futures and options, MF Global Ltd., based in New York, has named chief administrative officer, Ira Polk, as interim CFO. Polk, 60, replaces Amy Butte, who left the company to pursue other opportunities. Polk, has spent 22 years with MF Global, formerly Man Financial,...
BEA Systems has unveiled SmartConnect 3.0 software, which eases enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration by making it easier to plug ERP applications into a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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What's your ERM score? Standard & Poor's plans to answer that question. But, first, it's requesting suggestions about the evaluation process from those who are about to be judged
As financial execs write their resolutions for 2008, they might want to consider the wisdom offered Treasury & Risk readers by three economists: M. Cary Leahey, Milton Ezrati and John Lonski
Three CFOs from some of the largest and most high profile companies around--Citigroup, Home Depot and Intel--share their thoughts on how finance can help steer a company's strategy through rough economic waters
