ESG: No Longer "Green Window Dressing"
Corporations have often taken the position that when it comes to sustainability or other socially responsible issues, the costs outweigh the benefits for the bottom line. In his book Capitalism [...]
The Changing Landscape of Cash Management
After the 2008 financial meltdown proceeded from a credit to a liquidity crisis, the 27 countries that comprise the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision sought a solution to mitigate catastrophic [...]
Quantitative Easing and its Impact in 2014
image courtesy freedigitalphotos.net and suphakit73 In 2008, as the US economy began its historic slide into the Great Recession, one solution to bolster the sagging economy was the [...]
A Brave New World of Investing
The landscape for investors rapidly changed over the past few years. Volatility has reigned in the markets since the crisis of 2008. Traditional investment methodology, such as investing in a [...]
Risk Management on the Rise
Recently, we have been seeing a growing need for independent risk functions, an indicator that competition for investment and operations risk management as well as compliance talent is on the [...]
Getting Your Digital House in Order
Considering our dependence on social media, mobile technology, cloud storage, and “big data,” you could say that a digital transformation has taken place across our personal and professional lives. With [...]
Knight Capital's $440M Glitch Rattles Investment Industry
As if investors needed another reason to be wary of Wall Street, on August 1st, a brief tempest hit the stock market resulting in hundreds of millions lost. It’s source? [...]
Risky Business
Women, Risk, and Wall Street When Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, a bestseller detailing the 2008 Financial Crisis, was asked to share the one thing he’d do in [...]