Sarah Hamilton

Quantitative risk analysis (also referred to as assessment) has been an important tool in the financial industry for a long time. In quantitative risk assessment all the risks are quantified, as the name suggests, which makes the risk...

Managing risk is essential for all businesses but there is a difference in the resources available for small and large businesses when it comes to risk. Large businesses have dedicated risk management departments and can spend million...

Regulatory compliance software enables businesses to automate and streamline regulatory workflows. Modern software solutions can automatically parse regulatory documents and provide businesses with insights and recommendations in an i...

There is a lot of confusion in the industry about what regulatory change management models do for an organization. Everyone knows that regulatory change management is important, but how can these tools help organizations manage the ch...

Creating a risk management plan for business continuity is necessary to ensure that management is making the right decision. Often there are business plans that seem like a fantastic idea but during execution unexpected problems occur...

Simply creating policy and procedure documents on Microsoft Word and publishing them as PDFs isn’t enough. Policy and procedure documents are a reference guide for the whole organization – they need to not only be helpful, but als...

Small and big businesses operate in the same environment under the same laws but the practicalities and realities of doing business are very different for them. These differences exist in vendor relationships as well. Big businesses g...

There are many different approaches and strategies which can be undertaken to mitigate organizational risks. There are four basic types of risk mitigation strategies, under which there are multiple methods and processes. These strate...

The world of compliance management is changing rapidly. We saw the first major change with the influx of computers, then another one with the mainstream adoption of information technology. Compliance management solutions are ushering ...

Regulatory reporting is supposed to be the tool that helps governments ensure that the financial sector performs smoothly and does not cause any cascading problems. Even though there are extensive regulatory reporting requirements the...