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What Is Integrated Risk Management (IRM)?

May 27, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

Most community banks and credit unions have traditionally managed operational risk, vendor risk, compliance, audit, and resilience as separate programs. To consolidate the register, controls, and reporting for ...

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Integrated Risk Management Framework: 2026 FI Guide

May 27, 2026 Christine Thomas

A bank's integrated risk approach can be sound, and the technology can be deployed properly, but if the documented scaffolding doesn't describe how the institution identifies, assesses, controls, and reports ...

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IRM vs Enterprise Risk Management: A Guide for Banks

May 22, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

Most US banks already run an enterprise risk management program using board-approved risk appetite, a chief risk officer, a risk committee, an annual ERM refresh, and a register tracked across multiple categori...

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Operational Risk Management for Financial Institutions

May 22, 2026 Christine Thomas

Operational risk is the only Basel risk category that touches every line of business, every system, and every process inside a bank. This type of risk lives everywhere a transaction is executed, a system runs, ...

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Banker Compliance Insights: Ask Kaia

May 20, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

Alongside any organization’s final 2026 compliance program, there are questions bankers ask when they need a fast, accurate answer. Those questions reveal the topics where regulatory guidance is genuinely unc...

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Top Operational Risk Management Challenges for Banks in 2026

May 19, 2026 Christine Thomas

Five years ago, the operational risk management challenges that dominated examination cycles looked recognisable from the early-2000s Basel II event categories. Today they still apply, but the underlying driver...

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