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InsuranceRisk ManagementTalking Shop
September 21, 2023

Talking Shop: Charging Stores for Workers’ Comp Insurance Claims

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: Members of NeuGroup for Retail Treasury represent a variety of businesses that operate thousands of stores, restaurants and other retail outlets where the safety of customers and workers is a preeminent priority. But accidents inevitably occur. So it’s essential that companies managing the risk of people being injured at their facilities have workers’ compensation…
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Capital MarketsRisk ManagementTechnology
August 23, 2023

Focal Points: Tech and Risk Among Treasurers’ Top 10 Priorities

NeuGroup meetings in 2023 H1 offered unique insights into critical concerns for treasury teams in the months ahead. Hundreds of members of NeuGroup’s treasury peer groups met during the first half of the year to discuss a multitude of critical topics they face and share their main priorities for 2023. While the groups vary in company size, member titles and geography, 10 themes dominated the conversations in NeuGroup’s singular projects and priorities sessions. Here’s what’s top of mind: 1. Modernizing…
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Risk ManagementTalking Shop
August 23, 2023

Talking Shop: Revisiting Enterprise Risk Categories

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: Ted Howard, peer group leader of NeuGroup for Enterprise Risk Management, offered this context on the subject of enterprise risk categories: “When it comes to ERM, companies frequently use a variety of risk categories and standards to build programs tailored to their needs. The specific standards and categories used by ERM teams are based…
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BankingRisk Management
August 9, 2023

Scrutinizing Risk: Taking Frequent Looks at Bank Credit Exposure

Downgrades by Moody’s point up the ongoing, post-SVB review of bank risk by investors and corporate treasury. Moody’s this week downgraded 10 regional banks and took other actions that underscore that a banking crisis ignited by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank five months ago has changed how the world—including corporate risk managers—views the creditworthiness of banks. The failure of SVB and other institutions has triggered a widespread review of credit risk policies and led to changes within many finance organizations. One indicator of…
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Risk ManagementTechnology
August 3, 2023

Generative AI’s Promise and Peril Weighed by ERM, Internal Audit

Analyzing interviews, drafting reports and auditing expense reports are among AI use cases for auditors and risk managers. At recent peer group meetings of NeuGroup for Enterprise Risk Management and NeuGroup for Internal Audit Executives, members interested in harnessing the power of generative artificial intelligence tools discussed use cases as well as potential data security risks posed by AI. Several member companies have contracted with OpenAI—creator of ChatGPT—or Microsoft to set up in-house, large language models (LLMs) while others are considering the move.Extra…
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Risk ManagementTalking Shop
July 19, 2023

Talking Shop: Who Owns Global Workers’ Comp Insurance?

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: Oversight of insurance—policies for directors and officers, property, cybersecurity, product liability and other risks—is among the responsibilities of many finance organizations in the NeuGroup Network. As for workers’ compensation coverage, one treasurer and NeuGroup member responsible for insurance at his current and former employer said, “my experience is that the department which…
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BankingRisk Management
July 13, 2023

Digging Deeper: Finding New Metrics for Counterparty Credit Risk

Treasurers are adding new ways to measure the credit risk posed by their banks, new NeuGroup Peer Research shows. The nearly overnight demise of Silicon Valley Bank jolted many corporate treasurers into taking a hard look at what metrics to include when assessing banks’ creditworthiness. New NeuGroup Peer Research shows many treasury teams are now going beyond the obvious to evaluate their counterparty credit risk. Missing the signs. The urgency of this review and retooling is fueled in part by the realization, in…
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BankingRisk Management
June 28, 2023

SVB Shockwaves: Updating Bank Counterparty Credit Risk Strategy

NeuGroup Research survey results on the repercussions of the SVB collapse for corporates managing risk. The immediate flurry of activity by corporates in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s first-quarter collapse has subsided. But as the second quarter draws to a close, new NeuGroup Research shows the crisis of confidence ignited by SVB will have long-lasting implications. Preliminary results of the Best Practices in Assessing Bank Counterparty Risk Survey reveal the crisis has triggered a reassessment of bank counterparty credit…
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Risk ManagementTalking Shop
June 14, 2023

Talking Shop: How Many Pages Is Your Internal Audit Charter?

Editor’s note: NeuGroup’s online communities provide members a forum to pose questions and give answers. Talking Shop shares valuable insights from these exchanges, anonymously. Send us your responses: [email protected]. Context: International standards followed by The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) require that companies review their internal audit (IA) charters annually. An IA charter provides organizations with a “blueprint for how IA will operate” and helps audit committees (ACs) “clearly signal the value” they place on IA’s independence, according to the IIA. The professional association says an IA…
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Risk ManagementThe NeuGroup Insights Interview
June 1, 2023

Wanted: Strategic CFOs Who Drive Revenue, See Risk Holistically

The founder of CFO.University envisions finance teams that use analysis skills to drive sales while taking a wide view of risk. In the newest episode of NeuGroup’s Strategic Finance Lab podcast, Steve Rosvold, the founder and chief learning officer of CFO.University, shares a vision of the future for chief financial officers and the teams they manage, including FP&A. It’s a future where finance organizations use their expertise at analysis to mine insights from data and add more strategic value to corporates, in part by focusing…
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